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by hiddencost 932 days ago
Garbage in, garbage out.
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Where’s the garbage in? This is allegedly self reported data by actual employees, not made up fabricated data
I think the fact that the best we can do is allege that the data is user reported, and further assume that users report this data accurately tells you everything you need to know.
levels.fyi is pretty good for what it is, but it's obvious a lot of users don't really understand their comp structure (or at least how it maps onto the form). just for example, there are a lot of amazon L4 sde records that have cash bonus + rsu amounts that take them way out of band for that level. they probably don't know how to represent the weird vesting schedule.