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And eventually you're going to be stuck in the $300,000/year treadmill at a life-sucking anonymous job with no chance of ever hitting it big (or making an impac
by bokonist 16y ago
And eventually you're going to be stuck in the $300,000/year treadmill at a life-sucking anonymous job with no chance of ever hitting it big (or making an impact on the world).
Are they still paying that much for say a ten year engineer? Or was the outsized pay just a 90's/bubble thing? Or was that compensation coming form stock options that kept paying off (which no longer happens as MSFT has been pretty flat for the past ten years)?
- icey 16y agoI'm seriously curious about this as well. 300k a year for 5 years would buy at least a decade of time for working on startups for me with no reduction in quality of life... that's a tough sell to beat. Although... none of the Microsoft people I know seem to be doing significantly better than anyone else I know. Maybe it's a local to Seattle thing, but the MSFT people near me are still driving Hondas to work.