And a day job is dealing with programmers and offer to answer questions should be very appropriate.
Programmers are very sincere, did not achieve the desired salary would not be enough to reflect on their skills.
But in fact, is not the only factor determining pay the technical capacity of the impact of supply and demand is very large salary.
In many cases, the ability to almost two programmers, but there are large differences in salary. It does not encourage easily change jobs, but to understand the market is necessary.
Reached the half million annual salary, most importantly, the company has such recruitment needs exactly matching job seekers, so I chose the right direction when the job is very important.
To summarize the annual salary of more than 500,000 programmers I met at work which companies can be divided into the following categories:
1. BAT and other strong profitability of large companies
Ali attach a level corresponding to the salary
Not limited to BAT, strong profitability of other big Internet companies, senior technical staff of more than 500,000 annual salary is relatively easy.
Watch two qualifiers: profitability and strong, large companies.
Some companies, although the number of employees reached thousands of people, but weak profitability even perennial losses. If the segments in which the product model is not at the forefront, not to be optimistic investors, even if large-scale, wages are not high, it may be lower than the start-up of the company's employees pay.
And then for the second point - large companies. For more than half a million annual salary of high-level programmers, large companies recruitment needs much better than small companies.
For example: large Internet companies a large amount of users, average daily PV reach tens of millions, hundred million level. In order to handle large amounts of data, companies must hire experienced programmers can solve the problem.
Many small companies managers real idea is this: My products are currently only XX experienced programmers a year, for which I am willing to send up to 200,000 annual salary offer.
2. The financial giant
If you only think about the salary, benefits and work intensity, then the financial enterprise IT engineers may be China's most well-programmers. Financial giant project manager (not the product manager), can reach 50 million annual salary.
3 stars start-up companies
Those who have been favored capital Internet start-ups, the desire and the degree of talent on the local tyrant, compared to BAT are not much better.
Our site users say the true story: Two years of work experience programmer to get the official invitation of 65-100 million annual salary of the interview.
他是怎么做到的？ 在国内硕士毕业后，他去了某硅谷明星公司工作，在美帝的薪水换算成人民币的话是超过百万的。他来我们网站申请拍卖，想看看北京的工作机会，收到了很多北京互联网公司（包括知乎）的面试邀请。
其中有一个面试邀请来自某明星创业公司的 CEO，开出了 65-100 万年薪的面试邀请。
有两个因素很重要：一是这个创业公司融资一轮接着一轮，不差钱；二是这位候选人的经历，证明他能切实给这个创业公司解决问题。（保护用户隐私，不便详细表述。）
4. 闷声赚大钱的小公司
除了能盈利的大公司、获得巨额融资的创业公司能开出 50 万以上的 offer，还有一类公司可以——闷声赚大钱的小公司。
举个例子：几位互联网公司离职的员工，合伙创办了一个创业公司，启动资金来自几位合伙人以前的股票期权收益。
因为细分领域、产品模式选得准，公司很快盈利，利润率客观。他们前段时间刚开出一个 50 万的 offer。
这类低调的公司很难在 36kr 等媒体上看到他们的身影。有些投资者时常想约创始人出来「聊一聊」，几位创始人的态度无一例外的高冷——不约叔叔我们不约。
在这类公司中做程序员往往幸福指数比较高，只是一来知名度不高，二来招人不多。
他们是怎么招人的？
——大多是通过熟人推荐。
总结一下公司这块的情况，以下两点决定了它愿意给出 50W 以上的 offer：
- 公司不差钱
- 需要高水平的程序员
再来说说求职者的情况。我把年薪 50 万以上的程序员称为 Topcoder，大致有以下几类：
1. 工作年限长，经验丰富
这类程序员是 Topcoder 的主力军，他们的共同特点是：10 年以上的工作经验，在大公司当过螺丝钉，也在创业公司做过技术 leader，有过一两段不算成功的创业经历。
这样的程序员无论是去 BAT 还是去创业公司，都能拿到 50 万年薪以上的 offer。
2. 硅谷回国派
从硅谷回大陆的程序员同学，轻松达成 50 万年薪。
3. 真正的技术高人
虽然前面说技术水平不是决定薪水的唯一因素，但如果技术牛到一定程度，高薪 offer 也是探囊取物。
说一个我十分崇拜的技术大神：传说网络安全大神道哥在面试阿里的时候，面试官提出这样一个问题：你怎么证明自己的技术水平？
然后道哥接过电脑，当着面试官的面关掉了阿里的内网。如果技术水平牛到这种境界，没有理由会不成为 Topcoder 啊。