In tech, Facebook and LinkedIn are clearly higher payers, especially when you account for Google’s tendency to down level. AirBnB, Uber, and Lyft also provide much higher base pay than Google so assuming they have half decent IPOs their total comp will be higher, particularly after accounting for downleveling.
Google is clearly in this too tier of companies that compensate well, but it seems to rely on its brand name to be a little stingy. Anecdotally though, a lot of Google engineers seem to work a lot less than people at these other companies, except maybe LinkedIn.
And of course it is significantly better paying then Amazon and Apple.
Free food is standard across all the top companies. I imagine most would be providing transit perks as well (obviously Lyft would haha). 401k match might be lacking at Lyft and AirBnB though.
I'd say the general pattern is that Lyft and AirBnB are more selective in their hiring (which they can do with their smaller employee numbers), in exchange for paying more. There is also a risk premium since the value of their RSUs probably has more variability for companies that haven't IPO'd yet. And just a few years back it wasn't even clear when employees would get liquidity for their stock, though that has obviously changed now with the pending IPOs.
LinkedIn is an interesting case though. It's consistently the highest compensating company with liquid comp, and has a good reputation for work life balance. It's also not any more selective than Facebook or Google in hiring. I think being only a small division of Microsoft means it can be bankrolled and has less pressure to cut costs (I haven't seen any numbers for Github but it wouldn't surprise me if their comp is similar for the same reason). LinkedIn also likely compensates more to overcome the brand value / reputation that Facebook and especially Google have in comparison.
I should say though, having joined Facebook recently, that I'm noticing there are a ton of miscellaneous things that the company does to make employees' lives easier that may not have all that much monetary value, but really add up towards life quality. E.g. on-campus medical centers and insurance provider with really good customer service, e-waste dropoffs, and so on and so forth.
Google is clearly in this too tier of companies that compensate well, but it seems to rely on its brand name to be a little stingy. Anecdotally though, a lot of Google engineers seem to work a lot less than people at these other companies, except maybe LinkedIn.
And of course it is significantly better paying then Amazon and Apple.