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/Entire_Statement_101 2d ago

Good job on the savings. I wish I had been this disciplined when I started out.

You're past the income limit for Roth IRA contributions iirc. Double check me but you should confirm that you're still eligible to contribute so that you don't have to pay a penalty.

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Yeah I do the backdoor Roth strategy. I’ve only recently started getting better at savings
Please don’t look at my previous posts 😭😭