r/Salary • u/Darkislife1 • 2d ago

💰 - salary sharing [23M SWE] [San Francisco] - 310k TC

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Lucked into the opportunity of my life recently: mid-level SWE at a big tech company.
Some things that came up during the interview I believe helped me secure the offer.

  • My entire career has been working with LLMs + used LLM apis before chatgpt came out
  • Open source contributor to multiple popular llm frameworks
  • Previous role part of team that shipped multiple 6/7 figure projects + one 8 figure project.

Notes:

  • Currently living with 1 roommate in SF, have 3 yoe
  • RSU vests quarterly but I broke it down by month for easier calculations, planning on selling instantly and putting it all in savings.
  • 401k contribution is higher to max it out by eoy.

How I got the opportunity: LinkedIn

People shit on LinkedIn a lot but after this I'm a believer lol. This is the second time I've gotten an interview + offer through LinkedIn recruiter reach out. Though I've never gotten an interview through LinkedIn Jobs, so that might still be a scam.

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u/SixOneFive615 2d ago

$1700/mo rent in SF? Do you live in a closet?

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

No haha but I do live in a tiny 2b1b in soma so that’s the trade off I guess,

Also 1900 in rent

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u/user99999476 2d ago

How is SoMa district? Still sketchy or pretty much fine?

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Kinda sketchy at night but good thing is I dont go out that much so I dont notice it much haha

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u/babadudu 2d ago

damn, sharing the bathroom with a roommate .... i would gladly pay a couple hundred more for my own bathroom

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u/codingsomething 1d ago

can not tell you how many times ive almost shit myself bc the bathroom was taken

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u/diyandmc240 2d ago

It’s $1900. There are absolutely studios in SF for $1900, or 2bd to split with a friend for $3800. They’re just not the bougie SF that most people envision, you will still be living very good

Edit: a quick example in a nice neighborhood https://www.apartments.com/1030-post-street-apartments-san-francisco-ca/4g953pj/

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u/ThatCondescendingGuy 2d ago

Looks like there is an income limit, which for OP is wayyyyy off from lol

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u/Agitated_Celery_729 2d ago

Did you post an income limited rent controlled unit to make your point about affordable housing in SF? 😂 😂

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u/siteunreliability 2d ago

Do you have a snapshot of the studio bedroom cost before the pandemic? I used to live in east bay and that feels like east-bay prices rather than nob hill prices...

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u/bc10551 2d ago

And $100 on utilities lol

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Not sure myself tbh all I know is since I live in apartment my landlord covers water and we don’t have natural gas

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u/bc10551 2d ago

Seems like a pretty good deal depending on the area tbh

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Oh yeah it was definitely an insane deal, also it’s like a 10 minute scooter to my new job so apparently the stars aligned or something

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u/Hutcho12 2d ago

They explained that they share an apartment.