How is everyone here so rich?
It looks like everyone and their grandma makes at leaat 300k here. How TF is that possible?? Is everyone here a machine learning PhD with 15 yoe working at Google? What kind of background and credentials do I need to bring in that kind of money? Is it possible with just a bachelor's? Or do I need at least a masters? (I know most h1bs have masters since they don't have a us bachelor's)
FANG makes it possible.
5 yoe, excellent leetcode skills is all you really need to get 250 TC fairly easily
It’s the top 20% or so. No not every swe gets a big fang salary, but there top achievers do alright
So what do you make? yoe?
500k, 17yoe
Also a lot of people use this clever trick that works on the internet called ~lying~
😂 truth
Whatever helps you sleep at night
My grandma only makes $290k
She’s need more competing offers
She needs more yoe
Keep in mind, below $300k is literal poverty in the bay area. You'll have to sleep under a bridge.
What's your location and position? 300k is more common for Bay area swe. And high TC nowadays also results from stock market growth/bubble in recent years. RSUs can worth many more times of the grant value.
Just seconding what’s already been said. A senior engineer in a top company in the bay area makes over 🌲50. No PhD required. Being a sound, hard working, experienced engineer who prepares well for interviews is enough.
$300K and still renting.
LC