Thoughts on Salaries Posted on TeamBlind?

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What are your thoughts on salaries posted on TeamBlind? How many of those are real?The whole website content has strong negative connotations. I found that everyone is just asking TC which I imagine stand for total compensation? I don't understand point of knowing TC in each post.Also, overall it appears that site is flooded by trolls, people from asian countries, and fake posters.Have you seen salaries this high offered for real? What are your thoughts on salary data posted there and TeamBlind overall?

deanmoriarty · Accepted Answer

As a fairly average software engineer in Silicon Valley, now in fintech, I found the numbers thrown on Blind to be fairly consistent with the several offers I got over the years. I personally have received half a dozen data offers in those ranges, from FAANGs, public and pre IPO companies.Senior engineer with about 5 years of experience or more should easily be around $250k base + $250k equity per year (slightly more if the company is more risky/illiquid, slightly less if the company is public/liquid). I&rsquo;m talking about entering offer, without counting stock appreciation. Easy to surpass that as you get more experience.

romanhn · Answer

Blind is a pretty toxic place, but the data is legit. It was invaluable for both interview prep and salary negotiation. There is no magic to getting into these places - it's all about time put in to practice the, by now well-understood, material (leetcode, system design, behavioral) and the time put in to interview to overcome the luck factor which is ever-present in these types of interviews. It sucks, I avoided this for years, but ultimately Blind opened my eyes on the compensation potential and jump through the hoops I did.
My reference is Facebook, and total comp can be 450-500K+ for senior, 600K+ for staff/manager, 750K+ for senior staff/manager, 1M+ for principal/director, and so on. That's before stock appreciation.
To be very clear, do not confuse compensation and job satisfaction. After a couple of years at FB, I'm happily doing something else for a lot less money.

Zaheer · Answer

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71a54xd · Answer

Despite the fud, many of them are quite accurate. As depressing as it is sometimes to read TeamBlind, at times it's also great motivation to work harder.I'm very confused as to why pro finance people (who don't do any code and barely pass as data scientists) have seemed to inundate Blind now?

dyeje · Answer

They're mostly accurate. You can take a look at levels.fyi as well.

rejectedandsad · Answer

They're accurate, as are Levels.fyi.

Thoughts on Salaries Posted on TeamBlind?

Zaheer from Levels.fyi here. You may also want to check out our Verified Salary newsletter for verified data points. We use our verified data to help ensure the rest of our data is accurate.
https://www.levels.fyi/verified/

Despite the fud, many of them are quite accurate. As depressing as it is sometimes to read TeamBlind, at times it's also great motivation to work harder.
I'm very confused as to why pro finance people (who don't do any code and barely pass as data scientists) have seemed to inundate Blind now?

They're mostly accurate. You can take a look at levels.fyi as well.

They're accurate, as are Levels.fyi.