Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 21:04     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:but you have no life, they own you and you work al the time.

what a sour grape! pathetic!
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 17:21     Subject: Re:OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Most represented schools among employees in the U.S. (LinkedIn)

Big four (Berkeley, CMU, MIT, Stanford)
* drop off *
Harvard
* drop off *
Cambridge/Oxford, UCLA/USC, Cornell/NYU/Columbia, Washington, Waterloo
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 16:11     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

but you have no life, they own you and you work al the time.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 15:51     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.

The OpenAI salaries are for the world-class AI experts in their late twenties and usually thirties


Then, Jane Street pays more in general and to younger and less educated (BS) employees.


It's not a requirement to have a PhD or even a Master's degree to work at OpenAI. Heck, look at the leadership team.

Greg Brockman (President and Chairman): Dropped out of Harvard undergrad after 1 year
Sam Altman (CEO): Dropped out of Stanford undergrad after 1 year
Brad Lightcap (COO): Graduated from Duke undergrad

None of them have advanced degrees and they're steering the ship. It's probably no coincidence that they attended cream-of-the-crop undergrad programs though.



+1
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 13:00     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.

The OpenAI salaries are for the world-class AI experts in their late twenties and usually thirties


Then, Jane Street pays more in general and to younger and less educated (BS) employees.


It's not a requirement to have a PhD or even a Master's degree to work at OpenAI. Heck, look at the leadership team.

Greg Brockman (President and Chairman): Dropped out of Harvard undergrad after 1 year
Sam Altman (CEO): Dropped out of Stanford undergrad after 1 year
Brad Lightcap (COO): Graduated from Duke undergrad

None of them have advanced degrees and they're steering the ship. It's probably no coincidence that they attended cream-of-the-crop undergrad programs though.

Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 12:13     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.


Hedge funds barely hire any people in the grand scheme of things...if you use hedge fund quants as the standard, then I guess literally every other job (except maybe rock star, famous actor, pro athlete) sucks?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 12:11     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.

The OpenAI salaries are for the world-class AI experts in their late twenties and usually thirties


Then, Jane Street pays more in general and to younger and less educated (BS) employees.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 11:45     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.

The OpenAI salaries are for the world-class AI experts in their late twenties and usually thirties
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 11:32     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

It's not unusual for Google's senior SWEs, a few years out of college, to be paid (TC) around $500,000.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 09:10     Subject: Re:OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Wow! That's high.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 08:52     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

So they're paid 300K a year.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 08:49     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make


Quants at Jane Street make about the same amounts not vastly more although $900k would be mostly for SWE in their 20s.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 08:46     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

That makes sense. Their employees are the best of the best, usually with over a decade of experience in a field which blew up less than ten years ago.

Still chump change compared to what the quants at Jane Street and Co. make
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 08:45     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Anonymous wrote:Despite OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s frequent public appearances, the firm’s internal structure and operations have remained notoriously opaque.

But the startup Levels.fyi has raised the curtain on a key aspect of OpenAI's strategy: the compensation packages it's offering to lure engineers to come aboard.

According to the startup's data—which is taken from real, submitted offer letters mainly over the past year—the median compensation package OpenAI is offering to software engineers is valued at around $925,000.

That's split up over a $300,000 base salary and $625,000 in OpenAI's equivalent of stock compensation, a novel financial incentive called Profit Participation Units (PPU), which is meant to provide employees with benefits from the company's potential financial upside.

In the offer letters provided to Levels.fyi, the PPU grants are given a nominal value and generally vest evenly over four years. The total compensation data provided to Levels.fyi for OpenAI engineers ranged from $325,000 to $1.37 million.

Levels.fyi was founded in 2017 to provide information on benefits, compensation and other job perks. It sells the data to users and employers, as well as services like resume review and consulting around compensation negotiation.

https://sfstandard.com/business/openai-pay-packages-revealed-900k-for-software-engineers/


Unless I missed it, doesn’t say if this is for recent undergrads or for people with advanced degrees…my suspicion is the latter.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2023 08:41     Subject: OpenAI Pay Packages Revealed: $900K Median Pay for Software Engineers

Despite OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s frequent public appearances, the firm’s internal structure and operations have remained notoriously opaque.

But the startup Levels.fyi has raised the curtain on a key aspect of OpenAI's strategy: the compensation packages it's offering to lure engineers to come aboard.

According to the startup's data—which is taken from real, submitted offer letters mainly over the past year—the median compensation package OpenAI is offering to software engineers is valued at around $925,000.

That's split up over a $300,000 base salary and $625,000 in OpenAI's equivalent of stock compensation, a novel financial incentive called Profit Participation Units (PPU), which is meant to provide employees with benefits from the company's potential financial upside.

In the offer letters provided to Levels.fyi, the PPU grants are given a nominal value and generally vest evenly over four years. The total compensation data provided to Levels.fyi for OpenAI engineers ranged from $325,000 to $1.37 million.

Levels.fyi was founded in 2017 to provide information on benefits, compensation and other job perks. It sells the data to users and employers, as well as services like resume review and consulting around compensation negotiation.

https://sfstandard.com/business/openai-pay-packages-revealed-900k-for-software-engineers/