> Yeah but they arent though. 350-400k is actually somewhat low for senior.

I wouldn't say this. It's solidly middle of the road for a Google or FB senior, and high/unreachable for an Amazon or Microsoft Senior. Its probably(?) on the lower side for Netflix.

This is all before stock growth. Someone who has been a Senior for 5 years at Google or Facebook will be vesting shares that doubled in value, so the take home pay will be higher.

I’d say it’s not too hard to get offers right now but the offers are bad as far as I’ve seen. Especially at startups. Every startup I interviewed at completely lowballed the shit out of me on either salary or equity or both. Even public companies did the same - there is literally no interest in giving a good offer upfront. You need to pull teeth and have competing offers. Walking away isn’t enough! They want to hear companies and numbers and see proof.

I went with an offer in the 350-400k range like above. Hard to get above that without going into staff or getting lots of high competing offers. Even then, it’s risky.

Got a half dozen or so offers. It was a terrible time. So many startups withdrew at random stages because comp would come up and they realized they were too cheap to even bother sending an offer. Huge waste of time.

Great time to raise capital, terrible time to join a startup.