It's even possible to work at FAANG without working there
But will you make FAANG salaries as an external? At my work these are the worst paid employees.
Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does a low level wizard need to know more specifically?
Magic missile, garbage collection enchantment, server resurrection.
Server rez on a low level wiz build? That's way high level thoughts and prayers to the Top 500 (also a cleric build) or lim. "request" to the Blackrock genie over in Budapest. Besides, 7th? Pff, call "company of choice" to fight for you, save or die server vileness!, and of course "peon:cleanse everything? peon:what do mean everything? cleric:EVERYTHING."
Frankly you probably want a PRC, and at those admin levels much, much save or die. Probably got so many server pokes per minute you're gonna be furiously holy wording your file system all day long. Team members? Rez? Please. You solo that.
Low level wiz? "Welcome to name brand, and lack of female desirability, here's your special hat..." "Why aren't the lights on?" [1] "Help, I lit my own hands on fire!" [2] "Ah, every threat one hits me!" [3] "Man they target me bad at conferences, how'd I draw DARPA as agro..." [4] "Holy s*t there's a lot of documentation to write!" [5]
High level wiz? "Computation hates all magical ideas and their very implication!" "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal of my trust, our own company is secretly controlled by Orcus and seeks the death and slavery of all life on Earth" [6] "Join me in the bag within bag abyss together and we shall quest to Jubilex for glory and honor across the eternal battlefields of tomorrow!" [7] ITGETSOEPIC::THEYWONTLETULEAVE::ALREADYATWARP::AUTOLADDEREJECTED::HOWDIDRAWULTRONASAGRO::MIDASTOUCHISHORRIFYING::AHHHHHHH [8]
[1] https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/light.htm
[2] https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/burningHands.htm
[3] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SquishyWizard
[4] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShootTheMageFirs...
[5] https://www.d20srd.org/srd/feats.htm#scribeScroll
[6] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn
[7] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-...
Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
#164I made $4 million profit last financial year with my own software businesses.
What would be one piece of advice to keep in one's head for a young, aspiring entrepreneur/dev?
Don't go looking for ideas. Either build for yourself or build for the obvious market gap in your industry. Anything else has a high failure rate.
Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
#165Sure, if you work at many hedge fund you'll make similar money, and likely more if you are good at the job and the fund has success. One other nice thing is that instead of restricted stock you get actual money. And generally the money will be locked up for less time than the 4 year vesting that these companies often follow. And on top of that you can usually invest your money fee free in your own fund to help juice…
The other downside is that it is harder to break into because there are less roles.
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#166overemployment in multiple 100k-150k year full remote jobs as a sr engineer
2 is easy to do, 3 is manageable. I've heard of people doing more than 3, but most I've personally seen someone do is 3.
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#167Start your own business & you COULD make way more than a FAANG salary!
With the most likely outcome being 0.
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#168I’m aware of a couple people at health systems/hospitals that work maybe 400 hours/year making $500k+/year. Experts in legacy languages, specifically COBOL and MUMPS. For legacy billing and EMR/EHR and related systems code, respectfully. One guy gets flown out to the east coast from his ”chateau” in Utah every month or two; the only downside is he’s on-call pretty much all year round. I’ve heard banks have people lik…
I have heard/read of these people but people I know who work at hospitals doing MUMPS get paid very little. Same for COBOL programmers. There are some mythical people who make bank but most COBOL guys make way less than the typical JS guy.
Are they the original employees who started decades ago? If so, that’s no surprise. My aunt was in the same position years ago, despite my attempts to update her on modern salaries.
Those awesome salaries tend to be paid to mercenaries and not the lifers.
Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
#169Did you check levels.fyi? Companies like Databricks, Roblox, Rppling, Plaid, Airtable etc
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#170it'a catch 22 with some of those companies. 1. they don't hire often & usually have small teams 2. they make so much money, that they don't make noise about it. & you won't hear about them, unless one day you randomly run into one of their employees saying they're hiring on reddit / hn 3. they work in unsexy industries or high risk stuff e.g gambling 4. they're usually located in places you wouldn't expect
High risk stuff pays well but I take my decent salary making crud web apps over it, along with work life balance and no stress.
Same. I'm 40, and I have a wife and child. I will absolutely give up those rock star salaries if it means having the time to spend with them, and not taking ulcer medication.