Thread by @davidfowl

I thought this was common knowledge by now, but software engineers at “big tech” and in some of the major tech hubs in the US makes lots of money. I’d encourage you to look at levels.fyi to see the potential earnings at these companies. #techtwitter #BlackTechTwitter

https://twitter.com/davidfowl/status/1536513530400153600

That said this is about potential. This site doesn’t show how many people exists at these levels, let alone how many underrepresented people exist at some of these levels.

At Microsoft about 5.6% (query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/bin…) of the population is black and I know, just by looking around that there are a lot fewer in the upper echelons of levels. The percentages are more abysmal the further up the chain you go.

In the words of Kanye “Havin' money's not everything, not havin' it is”