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there are plenty of senior devs at FANG making that. not just machine learning/data scientist magician but just good devs that have been there for 10 years

• CaveTech 9y ago
  You'd have to be making 700k+ a year to be banking 300k after tax. Perhaps the valley slipped away from me but I find it hard to believe that there would be average employees in that range.
  • nappy-doo 9y ago
    I did it at a FANG, and it wasn't 700k/year. Admittedly, this is the longest runup in stocks we've had for some time, but just prudent saving and investing (and possibly working for a FANG outside the valley) did it for me.
  • loeg 9y ago
    Your tax math is bad. The pre-tax figure, even with California income tax, is closer to 500k than 700k. And some of that 300k/year difference is coming from growth of invested savings, not just W-2 income.
    • DenisM 9y ago
      So “any good” engineers are making $500k now? I haven’t been on the market in a while, seems like I fell behind the times.
      • loeg 9y ago
        I never made that claim, and you're ignoring investment gains.