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by joshuamorton 1731 days ago
You're off by a factor of probably 5-10 (and maybe more) in the number of L8s. It's a 150K employee company, with a dozen or so "S"VPs, and then VPs, and then below that are the directors. And its worth remembering that you're implicitly including stock growth in the startup valuation, but not in the big-co valuation. GOOG is up ~10x in the last 10 years and ~4x in the last 5. The 200K in stock the Google person was getting each year a decade ago is worth 2M per year now. Even the S&P 500 is up 4x in that period.
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I'd bet that a sr engineer that worked 2001-2005 at google has multiples of a yearly income than someone that is an L8 in 2020.