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Maybe after a few years with a lot of stock appreciation. I don't know of any company that will offer it straight-up. If you do, let me know and I'll consider switching right away.

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Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft. All of them easily offer 400k to L5s.

Yes, 400k is easily attainable as an L5/E5 at FANG. That's 200k base salary, 30k annual bonus, and $175k yearly RSU vesting (or about 750k initial grant). Those are definitely possible. Staff-level (L6) is about $250-300k, $50k bonus and $300k yearly vest at FANG. Senior engineers at Netflix make $600k or more per year in base salary only.

I'm not smart enough or ambitious enough anymore for staff but L5 is definitely doable.

Is Google really that much of a jump from L4 to L5? Their L4 packages are reportedly in the ±270k area (and my offer last year was well into the minus part of that range).

Also, and possibly related if the point above is the case, I have read from various Googlers recently that getting hired from outside at L5+ is really hard.

Low-end L4 vs High-end L5 probably is like that.

270k is somewhat low for L4. You can get hired as an L3 at like 225k

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