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If I'd take $100K and move back to my country, I'd have the lifestyle 99% of devs in SV could only dream of. It wouldn't even come to my mind that I would want to work for FAANG.
$100k gives you a really nice lifestyle anywhere in Europe.
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You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.
Am I reading right that average rent is somewhere around $2500 (roughly £2000)?
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What is average pay for a software developer in SV with 10 years experience?
You can easily get a comfy job with $350k
[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Sil...
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You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.
Am I reading right that average rent is somewhere around $2500 (roughly £2000)?
Here's a March 2019 article from CBS bay area (based on data from the rental site Zumper):
"Median 1-Bedroom Rent In San Francisco Soars To Nearly $3,700 A Month"
"Elsewhere in the Bay Area, San Jose’s median rent for a one-bedroom was $2,540 (5th highest in the country), while in Oakland it was $2,320 (9th highest)."
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/05/median-1-bedroo...
Comparing $90k as a W2 employee doesn't really compare to making $112k as a LLC or contractor. Taxes, health insurance, retirement... On the other hand, his amounts are going up, so I'm interested to see how high they will go, and what it will consistently level out at.
$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
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First, I think you're overestimating how much you can make as an engineer in SV. It's more, but it's not fair to say $100k is "not even close". Second, there's more to life than working at, say, Facebook/Netflix/etc for money. The pure happiness of working on something you care about is worth a lot of money to some people. Third, if this person ever wants to get a real job, the $100k won't go away, and they'll easily…
I would estimate Sr. or better is possible for someone who is able to independently run a OSS project. Going off https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi... that comes out to ~$350k/yr going up one more level gets you ~$500k/yr I will let you decide if 3.5x - 5x is "not even close".
100k in pretty much anywhere but the east or west coast may as well be 300k.
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$100k gives you a really nice lifestyle anywhere in Europe.
Except major cities like London, Paris, Dublin where it is somewhere around 'table stakes'.
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You can easily get a comfy job with $350k
indeed.com puts the average software engineer with 10 years experience in silicon valley at $141k [0] I think you have a very skewed view of "easily" [0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Sil...
A senior at google makes 170kish in salary and another 130-150k in stock.
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Hi Jean, I'm trying not to make this sound as a generic LinkedIn business advice, but get a better profile picture. Maybe a picture of you in front of one of the art pieces. Something that gives me an impression of who you are and what kind of art you collaborate in. It may sound stupid, but first impressions do really matter, even on Github. A dark, blurry picture of you drinking beer does not give a good impression…
This. Oh my god this. I can't believe people put up a TikTok-value photo on a professional site and wonder why they aren't getting 6 figure offers - no matter how technical they are.
That's interesting - for the longest time, for me Github wasn't anything related to the professional world, just a website to put the hobby OSS projects or uni group projects on. Things have obviously changed - it's nice to get a reality check regarding it.