While I admire Snowden, I suspect his “senior role” was more like a Big4 consulting “senior” than a distinguished engineer at Microsoft or Amazon. It’s entirely

While I admire Snowden, I suspect his “senior role” was more like a Big4 consulting “senior” than a distinguished engineer at Microsoft or Amazon. It’s entirely possible he’d never have made it past a phone screen for a FAANG role. I’m not sure $120k (in 2013) counts as “paid like garbage” for his role. What were SREs getting paid at Google back then? I get the feeling that was a reasonably close match for the role he had?