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From my recent interview experience within the past year as a Google L5 equivalent, all cash discussions were:

- Netflix pays over $500k

- ByteDance pays $530k (they were willing to do all cash at the time, but they may have changed it to 90% cash recently)

- 2 HFTs, both above $750k

Signing bonuses not included. Some companies had >$100k signing.

I'm not a rockstar and I have around 5 YoE.

If you're okay with stock comp (which historically does better than an all-cash offer due to the massive initial equity grant and refreshers), there are plenty of big tech companies offering around the $500k+ mark today.