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I make roughly 85% of that 200k figure (give-or-take, depending on stock option values), and my house cost $90 per square foot. If you're a good senior level en
by deong 9y ago
I make roughly 85% of that 200k figure (give-or-take, depending on stock option values), and my house cost $90 per square foot. If you're a good senior level engineer, you can make good money in far more than five or six companies in the world.
- TulliusCicero 9y ago200k is mid-level at Google. Senior engineers make significantly more, and staff engineers make a LOT more. Now if you want a big house, then most of the cities that Google is in are terrible for that. But there's more to life than having a big house, and the expensive metros have their own pros. It's pretty hard to beat Silicon Valley weather, and for what amounts to a giant suburb the restaurant scene is quite good (especially for Asian food).
- deong 9y agoWell sure. I'm not arguing otherwise. I'm just responding to a comment vaguely asserting that you can't make Google money in a boring corporate job. He wasn't arguing that the city was nicer. He just said, basically, "where else are you doing to get 200-300k". Well, if what you care about is how much of that you get to keep, lots of places.
- TulliusCicero 9y ago200k is mid-level at Google. Senior engineers make significantly more, and staff engineers make a LOT more. Now if you want a big house, then most of the cities that Google is in are terrible for that. But there's more to life than having a big house, and the expensive metros have their own pros. It's pretty hard to beat Silicon Valley weather, and for what amounts to a giant suburb the restaurant scene is quite good (especially for Asian food).