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 ? 

 
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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.

 

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