[demuxxed]

The money is real at some companies. We’re less than 100 people with more than 200m in yearly revenue. Market positioning is worth more than engineering excellence, but paying top salaries to reduce the execution risk is worth it.

I would expect the leetcoding and system design interviews across the industry to get much tougher and juniors to get squeezed out before top salaries drop.

Software has very high leverage in the right markets. It’s comparable to pro euro football where the teams that already have eyeballs will pay huge sums for top players in order to keep the eyeballs. Software salaries will only become more bimodal as VC money tightens.

[miguelazo]

No one cares about your revenue. So many startups purchase their revenue by essentially giving away their product at below-market prices, hoping to destroy the competition, like Uber did with taxis. It very rarely works. What's your company's net profit? Oh right, it's just around the corner...