What’s L5 and L6? What’s TC?

L5 and L6 is a label for career progression, like getting promoted from staff to senior, just with different words. TC is total compensation.

Total compensation per what, year?

Yeah, typically per year. And usually it’s called Total Compensation because some of it is in salary, some in stock, some in stock options, sometimes even some kinds of perks, etc.

So all of that gets balled up into Total Compensation, which is different than annual salary

$550,000 a year as a software developer. That’s insane money. You could buy a luxurious house in the city CASH after saving for two years with that salary, where I live. Including other expenses. They are making 3x my salary as a software developer.

Amazon throws money at people with niche skill sets.

They were paying engineers with experience with SELinux and CDS developers nearly 500k the past few years.

Insanity

Tbf selinux tends to be a hell of a black box. Anytime my shit doesn’t work and I can’t explain why, I default to blaming selinux and hit up IT. Seems like I’m right about half the time lol

SELinux is super simple, you just gotta understand how the system works.

Once you understand the syntax and flow of SELinux policy then writing it is easy. Writing GOOD policy on the other hand …. Lmao.

Typically most IT departments “fix” it with setenforce 0 which is the equivalent of removing the seatbelt cuz you can’t figure out how to latch it.

Android has one of the most “robust” applications of it but it doesn’t serve the purpose a good policy does, it does add a substantial layer of defense. Apple contracted my company to come out and teach them how to SELinux a few years back. Ultimately they tend to just pay “us” to do it instead lmao.