Salary at FB / Google with strong CS degree from good school
Heard from the grape vine that starting salaries for smart computer science students (think Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, NorthEastern) can start at 200,000 - 250,000 in the first year for a FB and Google employee. One person I know with 7 years of experience gets paid 1mm at Quora to do machine learning. Looks like there is more than one path to being master of the universe. Anyone can confirm ?
Went to an Ivy with a strong cs department and pretty sure those numbers are bs- I minored in cs and have lots of friends going to faang and other top tech.
Most top offers are around 150k first year, maybe an additional 20k Equity at a place like Facebook and another 10k year end bonus.
The big thing at tech companies is top performing interns (but like the actually very top 5%, not the slightly above average type) get insane signing bonuses- one kid I know got a 125k signing bonus from a faang co. So first year total comp can break 300k but closer to 200k recurring (so will make around 200k second year again). Again this is for the absolute best- most are under 200k first year. Salary at these tech companies also doesn’t go up as fast as finance, I have friends who are 3-5 years out of school in tech and make around 300k, but this is after a starting salary of close to 200k so not great growth.
The ones making insane money are at trading firms- people at Jane street and similar firms can break 300k their first year and have heard anecdotally you reach the million dollar mark in your mid-20s. Know a kid who payed off the entirety of his 4 years of student loans (which has got to be close to 200k) with his signing bonus from a trading firm.
Bro this is the IB forum. Also those numbers are obviously bullshit. Still very good pay though
Can we make a separate tech forum...
No, there are forums for Tech. WSO doed not need to cater to everyone.
This question would be better suited for the Blind app instead of WSO. Much more insight on the tech industry there.
Playing ping pong in the office in tech is nice.
Did you just reply to yourself? Unsure what you are trying to get at here. There are high paying jobs in many industries…
I interned for Citadel as an underclassman. They, along with Jane Street, will pay 400k first year.
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