Carnegie Mellon vs Lehigh University

Yes, that’s total compensation, which is the term I used. Virtually ALL L3 SWEs or SDE1 (these are the entry level software engineer position titles) at Big N in the United States get stock compensation and/or bonuses. It is inappropriate to just look at base salary when we start talking about high-end tech positions (which most CMU CS/CS adjacent students are shooting for). Levels.fyi is the most authoritative source, once again. It requires contributors to show proof of their comp and share other details.

EDIT: qualified the “ALL” above with “virtually” because there might be some unusual edge cases I have never heard about and aren’t documented.

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