Anonymous wrote:in house lawyer at tech co $210 plus bonus

What does the bonus/equity look like for an in-house lawyer at a tech co?

$321k total comp. Program manager at G with lots of room to grow.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

Thats what I thought is average here in DC .. and what % of population here in DC metro works in FAANG . I guess may be 2-3% ?

far less than 2-3 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

Thats what I thought is average here in DC .. and what % of population here in DC metro works in FAANG . I guess may be 2-3% ?

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

Gov con tech jobs don't pay well unless you have TS/SCI. It really doesn't even matter if you went to an Ivy league, I know plenty of people without degrees in CS (state school) who make 200k+. More than "graduates" or "school prestige", it matters way more to what company/industry you're in. L3 (entry level google engineer) will get 160-170k in TC but Google is one of the biggest tech companies. Getting a job at a tech company is definitely not something that you need to do like a doctor/lawyer would.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

It really depends. Big companies don't pay as well as smalls when it comes to DoD work. I'm a Chief Engineer for a small DoD contract and make $250k. I'm on the clock for 8 hrs of day but probably work no more than 2-3 hours a day. I have worked for bigger companies where the pay sucked and the hours were long!

Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

Anonymous wrote:For young people who are SDE's and below 30's and earning above 250k - 300k TC in FAANG and other companies, what technologies are you guys working on in DC area ? What was you major in college ? are you undergraduate, graduate or post graduates ?

For engineering it really doesn't matter what you studied or where you went to school (unless you're doing machine learning I guess). Mid level software engineer should clear 250k even working remotely. Even the technologies don't really matter much if you have relevant experience.

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity could folks also share their average number of work hours per week?

I work 25-30 hours a week, including all meetings.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in a FAANG company (not Amazon) in DC as software engineer. My team's hour is 10-4 every day (many people literally wake up at 10 lol), going to office 2 days a week after Sep.

Is this team dependent? Wasn't interested in going back to DC but if it's only 2 days a week I guess I can try lol

If it's not Amazon, it has to be FB or G?

My guess would be FB. For G, we don't work over 2-3 hours a day lol

I thought fb had a lot of product teams and their wlb isn’t that good. Do you know what teams Are there in googles dc office?

For FB, the WLB is team dependent for sure. As long as you stay away from ads or instagram, it shouldn't be too bad. Infra team has better wlb than product. For FB and Google DC, they are all heavily privacy and integrity teams, which is considered to be the new tech battlefield. The busiest time at G DC is around election

FB pays more than G and you get promoted faster. Tons of new initiative.
G has better wlb, but projects could be boring and slow, and becoming the new microsoft.

oh forgot to mention, G pays for overtime, which is considerate

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Anonymous wrote:I work in a FAANG company (not Amazon) in DC as software engineer. My team's hour is 10-4 every day (many people literally wake up at 10 lol), going to office 2 days a week after Sep.

Is this team dependent? Wasn't interested in going back to DC but if it's only 2 days a week I guess I can try lol

If it's not Amazon, it has to be FB or G?

My guess would be FB. For G, we don't work over 2-3 hours a day lol

I thought fb had a lot of product teams and their wlb isn’t that good. Do you know what teams Are there in googles dc office?

For FB, the WLB is team dependent for sure. As long as you stay away from ads or instagram, it shouldn't be too bad. Infra team has better wlb than product. For FB and Google DC, they are all heavily privacy and integrity teams, which is considered to be the new tech battlefield. The busiest time at G DC is around election

FB pays more than G and you get promoted faster. Tons of new initiative.
G has better wlb, but projects could be boring and slow, and becoming the new microsoft.

For young people who are SDE's and below 30's and earning above 250k - 300k TC in FAANG and other companies, what technologies are you guys working on in DC area ? What was you major in college ? are you undergraduate, graduate or post graduates ?

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Anonymous wrote:I work in a FAANG company (not Amazon) in DC as software engineer. My team's hour is 10-4 every day (many people literally wake up at 10 lol), going to office 2 days a week after Sep.

Is this team dependent? Wasn't interested in going back to DC but if it's only 2 days a week I guess I can try lol

If it's not Amazon, it has to be FB or G?

My guess would be FB. For G, we don't work over 2-3 hours a day lol

I thought fb had a lot of product teams and their wlb isn’t that good. Do you know what teams Are there in googles dc office?

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Anonymous wrote:I work in a FAANG company (not Amazon) in DC as software engineer. My team's hour is 10-4 every day (many people literally wake up at 10 lol), going to office 2 days a week after Sep.

Is this team dependent? Wasn't interested in going back to DC but if it's only 2 days a week I guess I can try lol

If it's not Amazon, it has to be FB or G?

My guess would be FB. For G, we don't work over 2-3 hours a day lol

I’m on the lower side, amzn 180k TC 5yoe

Using this as a jumping off point for something else in 6-12 months. Should be able to land something with 250-280tc next with some interview prep