I’ve been thinking recently about how to discover and hire great engineers in the hottest job market in decades. One of the biggest hurdles to hiring good engineers, and especially experienced engineers, is that they’re so. unbelievably. expensive.

Just take a look at some of the total compensation packages on levels.fyi:

Data is for GOOG (other companies are similar). Courtesy of the data at Levels.fyi (htps://www.levels.fyi/charts.html). This data was eyeballed quickly into a spreadsheet, check the source for actuals.
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