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I know we have our pitchforks out, but wanted to point out one subtle, but big difference from the article vs the job posting.
The article quotes a base salary of $900,000, however that is incorrect as the number is the Total Compensation, NOT just the base salary. The job posting specifically calls this out.
Regardless, these are very large numbers however the pay mixture could be (and likely is) loaded up with RSU grants, which isn't "cash" perse.
A base salary of $900K vs total comp of $900K are two vastly different things. Again, acknowledging that either way, these numbers are astronomical.
900k total comp is huge, but not astronomical in my opinion.
If you look at levels.fyi, it seems to match up with very high level engineers at most FAANG companies.
If you were to bring in someone to head up all of your AI for writing, you'd want to bring someone really good in.
These people are few and far between and money is a strong lure.
While this total comp is probably beyond you or I, there are definitely a lot of people in that ballpark.
900k base salary would be nuts
Yeah, fair point. Perhaps "astronomical" was a bit exaggerated. Well....from my perspective anyway!
When you are spending billions of dollars on programs, 1m is peanuts.
If you can speed up a billion dollar program by 1%/improve by 1%, you got your money's worth.
But people of that tier usually make a much bigger impact.
Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C# and typescript is a great example.
He created two major modern languages, take typescript alone, there are tens of thousands of developers who work on just the tooling for typescript between eslint, webpack, react, angular, etc.