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I’d assume the parent comment is alluding to FAANG or some of the hotter software startups.
by liujy 6y ago
I’d assume the parent comment is alluding to FAANG or some of the hotter software startups.
- klipt 6y agoI'd be very surprised if most FAANG engineers aren't millionaires after 5-10 years. The caveat being that houses in the Bay Area cost a lot more than a million...
- Teknoman117 6y agoOne of my buddies who works at Google basically lives in a hacker commune so he can pocket most of his earnings post tax. Not sure quite what he does with it.
- sushshshsh 6y agoSits in an account until the day that he gets suckered into marriage and home ownership
- frankbyte 6y agoAfter that a messy divorce and funds are in lawyer and exwifey account and back to the commune
- sushshshsh 6y agoCommune will be 2beaucoup after a tech-salary divorce, only solution is evading the lifetime alimony police by sleeping in the desert, where your only friends are scorpions and your only food is the same ;)
- vivab0rg 6y agoMGTOW for life!
- MrMorden 6y agoMicrosoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook all have significant Seattle-area presence; it's still expensive, but noticeably less so than Silly Valley, and you can live close to work yet have a Walk Score in the double digits. (And in fact a good score.) MS has a non-negligible number of jobs in lower-cost areas of the US (e.g. Fargo, Las Colinas, Atlanta); Apple is expanding in Austin; both Apple and Google have an increasing number of offices in lower-cost cities.
- discordance 6y agoFAANG pays well, but not necessarily more challenging