> I was on a team of 2 and my coworker left for Google for a little under $300k
I had a coworker leave to be an L4 SWE at Google earning the same in 2017. I don't know if the anecdote is relevant to the 2021 Great Resignation if people were doing the same thing 4 years ago (unless your colleague got an L3 offer for that amount).
The 75th percentile is $290k which fits the comment I was replying to ("a little under $300k") and by definition not an outlier.
Actually, looking at the earliest data points levels.fyi still shows under the same page, $300k doesn't seem to be an outlier in 2017 either:
https://imgur.com/a/hhO7dQE
Anecdotally, Google has not become any more competitive in the past few years as far as compensation goes.
I had a coworker leave to be an L4 SWE at Google earning the same in 2017. I don't know if the anecdote is relevant to the 2021 Great Resignation if people were doing the same thing 4 years ago (unless your colleague got an L3 offer for that amount).