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Where do such jobs exist?
by why_only_15 6y ago
Where do such jobs exist?
- liujy 6y agoI’d assume the parent comment is alluding to FAANG or some of the hotter software startups.
- klipt 6y agoI'd be very surprised if most FAANG engineers aren't millionaires after 5-10 years. The caveat being that houses in the Bay Area cost a lot more than a million...
- Teknoman117 6y agoOne of my buddies who works at Google basically lives in a hacker commune so he can pocket most of his earnings post tax. Not sure quite what he does with it.
- sushshshsh 6y agoSits in an account until the day that he gets suckered into marriage and home ownership
- frankbyte 6y agoAfter that a messy divorce and funds are in lawyer and exwifey account and back to the commune
- sushshshsh 6y agoCommune will be 2beaucoup after a tech-salary divorce, only solution is evading the lifetime alimony police by sleeping in the desert, where your only friends are scorpions and your only food is the same ;)
- vivab0rg 6y agoMGTOW for life!
- MrMorden 6y agoMicrosoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook all have significant Seattle-area presence; it's still expensive, but noticeably less so than Silly Valley, and you can live close to work yet have a Walk Score in the double digits. (And in fact a good score.) MS has a non-negligible number of jobs in lower-cost areas of the US (e.g. Fargo, Las Colinas, Atlanta); Apple is expanding in Austin; both Apple and Google have an increasing number of offices in lower-cost cities.
- discordance 6y agoFAANG pays well, but not necessarily more challenging