[sundaeofshock]

How many developers are out there making $1,000,000/year? Not in the hopes of hitting it big someday off of equity, but actual annual payoff?

How many companies are out there paying $1,000,000/year for devs?

How many devs who can command that kind salary are going to put up with bullshit coding challenges?

[bluedevilzn]

Many thousands of Sr. Staff engineers+ and Sr. managers+ across FAANG.

Google alone has 4000 directors all making a million at minimum.

I have only worked at FAANG across my nearly decade long career. So, it’s a biased but very large sample.

[alexawarrior4]

If you sample only from the 10,000 or so current Olympic athletes, you will draw similarly incorrect conclusions about the 8 billion planetary general population's athletic ability.

[margalabargala]

Okay, and let's say there's another 4000 Sr Staff+ engineers at Google making that much. That's 4% of the company.

That's not unheard of, but it's certainly rare. $1 million+ is not a "typical salary", even at Google.