Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
If you&#x27;re a software engineer in a city where these companies employ folks and you&#x27;re thinking this doesn&#x27;t apply to you, I&#x27;d encourage you to at least give it a shot. It&#x27;s not only the absolute best of the best who get these jobs.<p>I recently decided to do a round of interviews after 10+ years as an independent web &#x2F; iOS dev, having <i>never</i> had a professional software dev job. I&#x27;m also a self-taught developer with a business degree from a no-name state school. Despite all that, I&#x27;ve been really surprised and happy with the market reception here in NYC. I got interest from the bigger guys like Amazon, FB, and Twitter, as well as smaller companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Square, Coinbase, etc. Last week, I got a very good senior &#x2F; staff offer from one of the smaller public companies for around $400k in first year comp. With bonuses, promotions, refreshers, etc, that could easily average $500k - 600k per year over the next few years. And I had no competing offers. Some of the other companies I&#x27;m in the loop with will almost certainly offer quite a bit more, although I love this company that made the offer and I&#x27;ll probably just drop the other interviews and take it. Comp isn&#x27;t everything.<p>All this to say, if you&#x27;re interested in making more $$ and these companies are hiring where you live, don&#x27;t pass it up because you think it&#x27;s only for hotshot 22-year-olds coming out of Stanford.