To set people&#x27;s expectations properly, this guy is high-tier dev that focused on his niche and probably had his payoff event 10 years into work.  (Presumably his 8 year stint at Centaur and the buyout had some of that.)<p>AFTER all those 10 years, the Sr. Engineer plays at Google and Microsoft were probably 250k+, when they needed that 10 years of specialized experience for a $10M+ project and can pay to play.<p>Anec-data: As an SV person who&#x27;s worked at BigCorp and funded startups (from co-founder to CTO)... these numbers definitely trend high amongst my friends and acquaintances who graduated Stanford CS in the early 2000s.