Great work on launching this and levels.fyi. How does comp.fyi ensure freshness of salary data?
I feel like sites like Glassdoor became a victim of their own success. It became the salary site for years, so naturally it accumulated data going back years. Last I checked, their salary numbers are significantly lower than current industry comp since it has been going up over the past few years and it seems like they don't drop old data from the averages.
Thanks! Definitely a problem even for us. Right now, we're focusing on getting as many people to contribute as possible (over at http://levels.fyi/addcomp.html). We've tossed some ideas around about only showing / averaging the last 10 salaries submitted for a certain company and level and ensuring some minimum date of submission. Glassdoor also suffers from not having granularity of level for engineers and I think that may be why salary data is so broadly ranged.
I feel like sites like Glassdoor became a victim of their own success. It became the salary site for years, so naturally it accumulated data going back years. Last I checked, their salary numbers are significantly lower than current industry comp since it has been going up over the past few years and it seems like they don't drop old data from the averages.