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> Is there some magic pool of jobs there that let you retired after 10 years that I am not seeing? Yes there is, actually. It is called "working for one of the
by stale2002 8y ago
> Is there some magic pool of jobs there that let you retired after 10 years that I am not seeing?
Yes there is, actually. It is called "working for one of the big 5 tech companies/or one of the unicorns".
200k+ total comp is the norm for someone with a couple years experience working at one of these places.
And god knows how much the people with 10+ years make. A Google L6 (staff engineer) makes something like 450k?
- lrem 8y agoNote that Google (and presumably the others) pay for performance, not tenure. 10 years in you might be L8-9 and earn a million or be L4 and, well, not earn a million ;) Source: I'm keeping a pace of 1 promo / 2 years in Google. I've seen people going both faster and slower (and some stopping at L4, because why bother).
- jpatokal 8y agoPromos at Google get exponentially harder at each level, which also means the mean time between promos increases as you go up. L9 is Senior Director, meaning you're managing hundreds of people, and hitting that in 10 years is highly unlikely.
- 17896378 8y agoThe last person I knew who managed thousands of people hit that after 7 years. It's not the norm, but it happens. And with 15 years of experience I was being groomed to be promoted from an L6 to L7 "Uber Team Lead"... it wasn't easy and wasn't coasting, took a ton of very hard very impactful work... but it's possible for a mere mortal.
- pmiller2 8y agoYou don’t even need to work for a big-n company to make 200k TC with a few years experience, if that’s your goal.