[ffggvv]

you’re comparing fang to average startup. instead you should compare fang to top tier startup. as that’s the choice people who get fang offers make... in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.

furthermore before they were fang companies, google was the top tier startup and IBM was the equivalent to FANG.

[kortilla]

> in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.

WeWork and Airbnb want a word.

[whimsicalism]

> a word.

A word about what? Their salaries are certainly competitive with, if not higher paying than, Google and Stripe's are objectively higher.

[kortilla]

Not according to public info. When I left Google an L5 was commonly clearing 500k in liquid comp. Airbnb and WeWork weren’t even close and that was before the implosions.

[ffggvv]

airbnb pays a lot more than google lol. and they are actually doing great now despite layoffs at the realllt beginning of covid

[kortilla]

Nah https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Airbnb,Google&track=Software...