I checked Blind and total compensation info is pretty much in the right ballpark (for my company and my partner's company). This must be a nightmare for HR, who wants to hide that data as much as possible.
Considering my last job search resulted in most companies disqualifying themselves because they couldn't hit my very modest (per Blind) floor of $225k TC in NYC (16 YOE total, 10YOE SW). I feel like there are only three or four companies with highly competitive entry that could hit the numbers Blinders seem to think is normal.
There are like a dozen or so top companies that pay the top TC. This list is roughly accurate, though I question some of those being tier 1 (Jet, Splunk, Oracle, and Quora at the least seem to be off): https://www.teamblind.com/article/Compensation-Tiers-of-Comp...
It's certainly true though that you can't get the kinds of top compensation numbers you see on Blind if you aren't good enough at Leetcode questions (and systems design questions) to get offers from multiple top companies.
In my previous job searches I've noted that many startups are valuing their equity extremely high and trying to pay less cash instead. As a made up example to illustrated they may offer $120k cash, but give you a ton of options they claim are worth $200k per year.
In a real case I had a recruiter tell me they were "getting me" $60k a year in options, which in reality has been more like $10k. I like https://tldroptions.io/ to reality check the equity portions.
