<story><title>Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter</title><url>https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>My theory is FAANG pays for &amp;quot;the best&amp;quot; not because they necessarily need them. But because it&amp;#x27;s better for them if nobody else has them.</text></item><item><author>glimshe</author><text>I left the game industry for FAANG and I&amp;#x27;m getting paid 2-3x more. I&amp;#x27;m happy with this situation if I consider the big picture but, at least in my case, my game job was much, MUCH better than FAANG. No matter how many fancy drinks and energy bars FAANG gives me, if the pay in the game industry was higher I&amp;#x27;d have stayed without a doubt.&lt;p&gt;What this means is that FAANG is actually paying what it needs to pay to get employees, otherwise many people would simply work elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;There is a myth that working at FAANG is amazing for everybody, but most people I know there are actually kind of miserable and doing fairly dull work for which they are massively overqualified. Nonetheless, these companies have money and they want the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; (in their eyes) people for everything, so they pay for it... Well, it&amp;#x27;s a decent deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreyfan</author><text>Yep. How is a startup supposed to compete when today&amp;#x27;s economy has resulted in fresh grads commanding $200k total-comp? Of course the answer is &amp;quot;you raise money!&amp;quot; so you can pay them &amp;quot;market-rates&amp;quot; at which point you may as well say fuck it and just get a job too because now you&amp;#x27;ve given up so much equity and have such an aggressive burn-rate you&amp;#x27;re pretty well screwed from day one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter</title><url>https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>My theory is FAANG pays for &amp;quot;the best&amp;quot; not because they necessarily need them. But because it&amp;#x27;s better for them if nobody else has them.</text></item><item><author>glimshe</author><text>I left the game industry for FAANG and I&amp;#x27;m getting paid 2-3x more. I&amp;#x27;m happy with this situation if I consider the big picture but, at least in my case, my game job was much, MUCH better than FAANG. No matter how many fancy drinks and energy bars FAANG gives me, if the pay in the game industry was higher I&amp;#x27;d have stayed without a doubt.&lt;p&gt;What this means is that FAANG is actually paying what it needs to pay to get employees, otherwise many people would simply work elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;There is a myth that working at FAANG is amazing for everybody, but most people I know there are actually kind of miserable and doing fairly dull work for which they are massively overqualified. Nonetheless, these companies have money and they want the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; (in their eyes) people for everything, so they pay for it... Well, it&amp;#x27;s a decent deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aliabid94</author><text>Something that also plays a big factor in the general over qualification of FAANG employees is that mistakes can be very very costly. It’s worth paying one engineer that gets things right 99.99% of the time twice the salary of engineer that gets things right only 99.9% of the time.</text></comment>