Two weeks ago, I joined NVIDIA as an IC4 Senior SWE. I'm 20 years old and have 5yoe. Yes, that's right; I was 15 at my first full-time dev role. When I was 18, I joined Bridgewater Associates as a Security Engineer — my TC was 120k. After about 18mos at Bridgewater, I moved to San Francisco to join a startup, making 220k and a bit of unpriced equity. In January, the startup I joined lost quite a bit of their supply chain productivity to COIVD and had to lay off 2 of their 5 engineers. Within 30 days, I had offers from a few no-name companies. I interviewed with Google, Amazon, and Apple about 60 days after the layoffs. I got an offer from Google and Apple and told Amazon to go suck a dick after my interview. Fuck them. I didn't like any of the teams I matched with at Google and dropped out of the process. The team at Apple was hardware QA tools for HomeKit manufacturers, not very sexy. I rejected that offer and started from scratch. I interviewed at Coinbase, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Got offers from Coinbase and NVIDIA and matched with a few teams at Google. In the end, I joined the GeForce NOW team at NVIDIA. TC is 307k Base - 190k Equity - 350k/4yr Annual Bonus - 30k Even with all this TC I still can't legally drink wine. 🙄 #offer #faang #nvidia #bridgewaterassociates #coinbase #amazon
Is that low TC even worth bragging about? Come back here when your TC is 1mil.
Soon(tm) btw—Ironclad is one of the small startups I got an offer from earlier this year. The others were Headspin and OpenInvest
Glad that you didn't join Ironclad. We don't need humble braggers. Oh well, since we are humble bragging, I'm writing this message as a multimillionaire.
pahaha to each their own, I don’t find gaming interesting at all but seems like you found an interest fit there
You're right about everyone having different interests. For the record, I'm touching as much 'gaming' stuff as an engineer at Netflix is touching 'cinematography.' I'm interested in the infrastructure required for a low-latency experience.
How many more humble braggers should I survive! Hmm..
When I started writing my post, my goal was to tell my story through a parody of "humblebrag culture." After I posted, I realized I had become part of the problem, so I committed to responding to every reply as a decent human, which isn't the norm for these types of posts.
How did you work full-time at 15? Aren't there legal issues?
Yes, quite a bit actually. My parents had to co-sign everything with me, which they were happy to do. Transportation was a bigger problem; for about 24mos, I wasn't able to drive myself, so I had to rely on my family. I couldn't have done it w/o them.
Oh wow how did you find the role/convince the employer to hire you? Congrats on the new job btw, it's amazing how much you've accomplished
Show LinkedIn.
Several have already found my page. ;p
Don’t you think you are missing out on college life? Espressially when you are so young.
I'm not missing anything, so no. If you think I'm missing out on the social life of college—I'm not. Btw, post-college parties are >>
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I call BS
I don’t blame you—and, at first, most of my colleagues are skeptical too. At BW, people were continually shocked when I turn down a drink because it’s “not legal.” Also, I have a verified NVIDIA email, what don't you believe? If what you're doubting is my age — look no further than the title of the post. I'm GenZ, no cap.
You can search for their Linkedin and this story appears to be accurate, but i doubt the TC though. NVDA isnt giving 300k for 5YOE(intern included) coming from no name companies. Probably typical Blind inflation. But overall impressive, no lie