Apple Again Rewarding Some Engineers With Up to $200K in Stock Bonuses

[jerryk]

I would think for top performers that it is low.

It is an extra bump in addition to their normal raises and stock grants. Also, since it is stock that $200K worth of stock could be worth $600K or more by the time the exercise the first set of options in 4 years.

 

[rukia]

To put in perspective, I’m not even close to SV, in some backwater, and my RSUs are 50k p.a.

I would have expected 100 or 200k per year for a company of Apple’s calibre.

The is just an extra kicker on top of the usual annual grants.

Apple Hardware Engineer Salary | $166K-$795K+ | Levels.fyi

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Apple Software Engineer Salary | $159K-$781K+ | Levels.fyi

Software Engineer compensation in United States at Apple ranges from $159K per year for ICT2 to $781K per year for ICT6. The median yearly compensation in United States package totals $326K. View the base salary, stock, and bonus breakdowns for Apple's total compensation packages.

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[1129846]

Yeahhhhhh….NO. iOS engineers should be threatened with a paycut given what a mess it’s been especially coming off the obnoxiously stable iOS 12 with a disaster 13 rollout. 14 and 15 not much better.

Wrong group to blame. Don’t blame the engineers blame the product manager and marketing departments. Also don’t blame the product manager over the iOS you need to go up the chain some more.

I have been in the tech industry for over 10 years. We software engineers and team leads make a lot of noise about needing to fix some issues or bugs all the time. Marketing and upper leadership of product management screw us and demand new features but refuse to give us time to do maintenance, or fix underling issues.

So no don’t blame the engineers they are most likely barely holding things together and they are trying to keep things under control.

Sadly marketing and others got the public to blame the engineers for the issues but that is the wrong group to blame.

 

[Rafterman]

You could probably convince me to return to the office for a few hundred grand. ?

Not me. It'd have to be more than that to get me away from working at home.

 

[fhall1]

These are most likely tied to remaining with the company for around three years. I don’t get that in one shot, but that is it works where I am employed. In any given year I have a set that vest and new ones added on the end.

Did you read the first post - it’s clearly stated there.

 

[oldoneeye]

This is how AOL rewarded/retained me 30+ years ago.

for sign-on RSUs

 

[BeanieMan]

Seems odd this isn’t the norm. This is what their primary talent competitors do annually.

I wonder if this is in addition to annual refreshers. In fact, it seems it must be, because otherwise Apple comp would not be competitive.

 

[RogueWarrior65]

So, that's about twenty bucks in non-Bay Area dollars?

 

[torontotim]

Keep rewarding them for making non upgradeable devices... pure profits...

I'd love to see the stats on how many people upgrade their 3 year old Windows laptop with more memory or a larger SSD.

I've owned laptops for almost 30 years and have rarely if ever upgraded them. The only recent one was swapping a SSD into my wife's 2009 MacBook and adding more memory to it.

Show me a 2009 Windows laptop that can still run anything Windows 7 and up smoothly and then keep complaining about Apple's engineering.