lonbigtech

It wasn't clear to me while reading this that the drop occurred while at the company, or was the drop from their prior gig. If they indeed lowered the salary their company paid them... yikes. Especially if a justification is "investor signalling". Sounds like kowtowing to unhappy investors.

What browser are you using on your phone?

How much of that 2000 hour was spent on the core experience, the meetings screen? How much of the work that wasn’t spent on the meetings screen had to be reworked due to changes with the meeting screen? How many times has the meetings screen been shown to prospective customers?

Where's the content in this post? It essentially boils down to "I want a SaaS company".

> Zurich is Not when you factor in the tax differential

I doubt that $100k is the 99th percentile for London developers, maybe it is for European in general.

London isn’t more expensive than SF. And I have colleagues who make £450k+

In Canada? Work at a fintech, FANG, or as a quant.

London doesn’t top out at $100k. Neither does Zurich

Yes, it’s normal to interview people and it’s normal for some subset of those people to fail. It’s standard practice not to provide specific feedback.

The big tech companies will pay this to engineers with 5+ YOE when you include stock. Financial firms can be within this range too, and be a lot higher for quants.

I’d suspect 20% of my engineering colleagues make in excess of £150k a year.

£100k base salary 15% bonus £60k a year in RSUs

No CS degree, 8 years of experience. In big tech.