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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow this thread is eye opening. It makes me feel underpaid. I have 15 yoe and I'm making only $250k at a local company.  
I'm getting paid less than new grads? I'm sending my application for a job at a FAANG tomorrow.[/quote]

Depending on your skills, you may not may more.  Some of these salaries are exaggerated.  [/quote]

Not exaggerated. Not just FAANG but random unicorn startups pay 150-250k to fresh grads and 4-5 yoe can make over 300k. There’s a few dozen companies like this. The down side for someone with decades of experience outside big tech is that you may get treated the same as someone right out of school. I see some folks who are 10-20 yoe at a no name and they are given a junior position [/quote]

Yeah but even if you have experience and skills if you are older than 35 unless you have a close contact sponsoring you, you won’t ever make the cut. [/quote]

Huh? [/quote]

Age discrimination [/quote]

Not at 35 or even 45.

You're talking through your ass.[/quote]

If you aren’t ALREADY in the Valley by 35, unless you are a founder of a successful startup or some extreme edge case, you aren’t getting a job at a FAANG. Worked for years on algorithms at APL as a staff programmer and can easily do the role of a full stack SDE, they will not give you time of day. [/quote]

Possibly I know a guy who looks to be in his late 30s or 40s and he just got hired by facebook. If they do discriminate how the heck haven't they been getting sued left and right[/quote]

Its not age, it’s pedigree. The folks who were in the valley at 20 worked at FAANG, or at some other hot startup from back then, maybe eBay or more recently betterment or Uber or Doordash or instacart or wealthfront or Palantir or 23andme or whatever. Those folks apply to FAANG and have pedigree. The random applying to work there from Dumbledore COBOL Programming or whatever isn’t going to get light of day. Old or young. [/quote]

This.  Though I started my career here in NOVA and I'm still here. I'm 45 and have turned down agressive attempts from AWS for recruitment. I don't want to work In a toxic culture. I already hit it big at Service Now and only chase the RSUs or IPOs at this point. And Facebook? Lololol!!!

I'm wondering how many posters posting are really in tech? FAANG is not where the real money is. Not even close. [/quote]

FAANG is a reliable way to make a high income. Sure you can try to work for a pre IPO but that is much riskier. Most of your comp at those companies is funny money and statistically most of them fail. You see the occasional 20 something getting a 7 figure payout at IPO but that’s much rarer than getting in to FAANG[/quote]

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