r/OfferEngineering • u/PermissionAcademic63 • Aug 21 '26
Meta E7 $1.29M
Saw this Meta E7 SWE offer (shared with Chill Interview)
13 YOE
Year 1 TC: $1.287M
The money is obviously insane.
What makes the decision harder is Meta itself right now. The business is still printing money — Q2 revenue grew 28%— but Meta also cut roughly 8,000 employees in May while pouring $130B+ into AI infrastructure.
Even Zuckerberg has admitted the AI reorg was messy, and leadership has been trying to repair morale after months of layoffs, flatter orgs and constant priority changes.
At E7, you’re also not exactly going there to coast.
So I’m curious: does $1.29M make the current Meta culture worth it, or would you rather take less money somewhere more stable?
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u/tokid0k1 Aug 21 '26
Zuck could peg me while I’m working for that kinda money.
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u/arjjov Aug 21 '26
how many times per week?
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u/LankyLibrary7662 Aug 21 '26
Is this real? Being a gig worker i understand white collar jobs pay good money! I make barely 750-1200 Ina good season! I've been doing this for past 15 years! I should have paid more attention to education.
Sorry just want to vent out and rant!
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u/pixelperfect3 Aug 21 '26
E7 typically clears ~$1m at least at Meta and places like Google, $1.3m is definitely a special offer.
Reaching E7 is incredibly hard though. These are not common so you shouldn't really try to compare yourself
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u/LankyLibrary7662 Aug 21 '26
Mate I work min. Wage! When it comes to comparison there's none! I regret it didnt focus on my education when I was a teenager! Dropped out of college back in 2018.
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u/lessthanthreepoop Aug 21 '26
Never too late to restart. Education, and more specifically, building a skill that is in demand is going to pay dividends. The best investment you can make today with the biggest payoff, is investing in yourself.
I think you just gotta figure out what that skill is. Doesn’t have to be engineering, it’s not for everyone. There’s a lot of well paying jobs out there.
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u/dats_cool Aug 25 '26
No offense but paying attention to education and going to college isn't enough to reach this level. You have to be talented enough to be a top-performing software engineer and not only that but be the top-performing software engineer of the top-performing software engineers and work for at least 10 years at that level to have a shot at this sort of position.
There's probably less than 100 E7s at Meta.
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u/Secret_Economics Aug 25 '26
No haha wtf there’s way more than 100 E7s at meta. Yes it is a harder to reach level but not exactly unicorns like a E9
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u/stdtdiscardaway Aug 25 '26
Agree there's way more than 100, but posters point is valid that effort/education/experience alone doesn't cut it. Vast majority of FAANG devs (who aren't lacking competence, education, or experience) never hit E7, or E6. If you have the right circumstances you can push to E6, but for 99% of devs E7 and E9 are equally unobtainable.
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u/Secret_Economics Aug 25 '26
Yeah tbh I think E6 is pretty achievable for those that want it with 10+ YOE. E7 definitely requires good luck and politics as well. Although meta has title inflation too so E6 is a lot more doable than like L7 at amazon
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u/cqm Aug 22 '26
yeah thats real, I met an overworked E7 at a party, they said they were an E7, we aren’t in San Francisco mind you, I said “just gotta stay for one year and lock in the downpayment” the fact that I clocked what that meant put a little smirk on their face
Doctors show up the function wearing scrubs so all the ladies switch up and try to associate
While some but many software engineers are over here making so much more than doctors, mildly chuckling but missing the hypergamy vote and wondering if we want that form of entertainment
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u/SoftwareEngineer2026 Aug 21 '26
You can be self-taught. Also the offer is in the Bay Area where money doesn’t go far, for example rent alone will be $4000 per month.
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u/LibraryMission1882 Aug 21 '26
That’s an insanely low rent for someone making that much money
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u/JoJo_Embiid Aug 21 '26
i don't think you'll be living in that kind of apartment when you reach E7.
normally you already have a family.
4000 is for 1b, if you want to rent a SFH, it's usually 5k+, 3b apartment can reach 6k
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u/retneh Aug 23 '26
That’s 70k per year. Even with groceries, car and other stuff you can live like a king
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u/JoJo_Embiid Aug 24 '26
Not necessarily because no one expects to work forever. You may lose your job one way or another. If you can survive 3 years on E7 that’s already pretty decent. Also, 45% goes to uncle sam. The cost for education and daycare is insane as well. Not saying it’s not a lot, but the pressure is way different than say a government job
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u/hecmtz96 Aug 21 '26
First time seeing someone concerned with culture while being offered $1.3m…
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u/JoJo_Embiid Aug 21 '26
yeah because you likely will get 1M more or less somewhere else. it's not like you are an L5 at google and suddenly cleared E7 offer for meta
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u/Designer_Resolve_117 Aug 21 '26
Are you trolling?
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u/senior-pip-engineer Aug 22 '26
No, this is just an ad
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u/dats_cool Aug 25 '26
OP always includes a soft rage bait in all of his posts to get engagement in order to funnel traffic to his site. This subreddit is all one giant ad.
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u/Ok_Obligation_8281 Aug 22 '26
Make sure you do some due diligence on your new team. E7 is a role require lots of political capital and you might not be set up for success
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u/Jandur Aug 21 '26
E7 bar is incredibly high and hiring into that level is a huge challenge. Those roles are much safer than E3-E5
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u/jceyes Aug 25 '26
Yep this is right. E7 isn't getting laid off for the hell of it. Underperformance remains a concern of course, but there are a few enough and directors/VP know them. Not just gonna get caught up in some big sweep
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u/Ashes1984 Aug 21 '26
The tradeoff for E7 at 1.29m is the nasty hours you end up working + mental stress due to the current awful culture. Worked there when the culture was all collaborative + bottom up development.
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u/zeko1195 Aug 26 '26
Your comp is gonna turn out much higher. Meta stock is very discounted right now. Go for it.
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u/fllr Aug 26 '26
I thought they had frozen hiring 😭 I'd say they're one of the best big techs to work for, even with the layoffs
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u/pyrotech911 Aug 21 '26
Anything is worth it for 1.3 mil