A recruiter asked me to join them back in 2016 and they were paying $200k+ for a senior backend role. I turned them down because I was on a visa and wanted a company with financial stability. A gif-search engine startup sounded ludicrous.
I feel like you can quote just about arbitrarily high number for an SF engineer salary and someone will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it's actually low.
"senior" is overused, in reality a junior-senior can easily make 150k base, a senior-senior can make 250k base. And we're not even talking about netflix.
four years is a decent chunk of time im sure youve done fine since then dont beat yourself up over it - most startups arent really worth joining for the upside potential at IPO or acquisition anyway.
Facebook has a lot of amazing engineers and developer tools, and many of them have great reputations in the industry. I know a lot of people working at Facebook in a variety of roles and they are all happy and proud of the work they do.
You're trying to make it sound like it'll put a black mark on your resume or something.
A recruiter asked me to join them back in 2016 and they were paying $200k+ for a senior backend role. I turned them down because I was on a visa and wanted a company with financial stability. A gif-search engine startup sounded ludicrous.
Well, here we are...