[bifurcations]

People are conflating SWE (or "research scientist" in name) bands with research scientist bands at labs like Brain. This guy is an outlier.

"You can only be level X with compensation Y after Z YOE" is one of the greatest infohazards in tech.

[joshuamorton]

Fwiw, the pay bands at Brain are the same as the pay bands everywhere else, with the sole exception of stock grants in initial offers.

[kyawzazaw]

That probably matter a lot.