Comment by pelasaco
2 years ago
> CEO is making about as much as a principal Google engineer
From a company living from donations... It is illusion (probably a California thing), to think that you are going to compete salary wise with FAANG. The time will tell (well their complaining about money, is already hinting it)...
But they aren't. A principal engineer is not a CEO but probably makes more at top companies.
I don't even work at a FAANG and I was making almost as much as the director there who lists 200k or so total comp. Probably with 20 years less experience to boot. I don't live in SF either; High CoL area but not SF.
That's why I asked you what's a "reasonable" salary. I'm wondering what your POV here is in terms of compensation.
Top European salary would be a third of that.