I read through this, but I still don't know how the company I work for fits into it. I am a programmer for a Fortune 100 company, but none of the stable company descriptions seem to match my company. Certainly not in terms of compensation. $5,000-$10,000 per day? By my calculation, I make about $800 per work day and don't have any stock options or that kind of stuff. So, the pay (apparently) isn't great, but it is stable and had great benefits (in terms of health insurance, paid time off, etc.)
These numbers are absolutely insane. In Poland 300 EUR per day is a good senior level salary. If I earned 10k per day, I'd quit after a year, but a medium house, and live very comfortably just from a 2% interest rate for the rest of my life.
You're in Poland.. In California there are certainly (probably less than a few thousand) people making these rates. They've been there 20 years and are principals and above.
There's no way that's accurate. Do they really think most engineers are being paid $1.8million to $3.6million per year at 'stable' ultra-growth companies, even taking the stocks into account?
There's no way this is true. A tiny number of engineers across a handful of companies maybe.
The rest are getting paid way less than that. Or working for a company that is 'ultra-growth' but runs out of cash and goes belly up before you can even vest your stock options.
If this is considered common in these type of companies, someone please point me in the direction of companies like that, please. I'm not making anywhere close to that much, and I have some good experience in both startup and enterprise companies. I'd even accept 1/4th of that.
