I wish. Sadly that's an example of a prestige job that wouldn't necessarily pay the max. If you're making $400k as an IC w-2 employee you are probably working f

I wish. Sadly that's an example of a prestige job that wouldn't necessarily pay the max. If you're making $400k as an IC w-2 employee you are probably working for one of a few well known companies in a small number of industries like ecommerce, ad-tech, or fin-tech. Basically I make fastish web servers. Turns out when your company makes billions of dollars small efficiency gains pay off.