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As another anecdote, I was offered $115k/yr + $10k relocation from Groupon right out of college (I didn't accept, but that was the highest offer monetarily).
by ahlatimer 15y ago
As another anecdote, I was offered $115k/yr + $10k relocation from Groupon right out of college (I didn't accept, but that was the highest offer monetarily).
- georgieporgie 15y agoGraduate degree, or undergrad?
- ahlatimer 15y agoUndergrad, and I didn't go to a prestigious school.
- georgieporgie 15y agoFrankly, that's amazing. I hope you took/get to take something that's not too far off that mark.
- ahlatimer 15y agoI do alright. I went with something that's lower salary, but there are things in life that are more important to me than money. Dailybooth, the company whose offer I accepted, seemed to have the maximal overall combination of the things I was looking for. What I did wasn't magic, though. I worked my ass off to get relevant work experience starting as soon as I could. I used that to get into a YC company. They liked me and my work enough to write me a letter of rec and forward my resume to the YC founder's list. FWIW, no one even asked about college beyond "how's college going?" as I was in final's week of my last semester when I interviewed with a bunch of companies after the forward.