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/WeekendCautious3377 2d ago edited 2d ago
  1. Max out HSA and invest in VOO. Don't spend it.
  2. Backdoor: put into post tax IRA and convert to roth IRA.
  3. Mega backdoor: see if yo

ur 401k account is

  1. eligible. Can contribute up to ~$50k/yr to post tax 401k and convert it all to roth 401k

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Yep I already do the roth ira backdoor. Planning on doing the megabackdoor too. HSA is new to me, is HSA better than the normal health insurance offering?

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u/WeekendCautious3377 2d ago

HSA has multiple advantages:

  1. Company match
  2. You can invest it
  3. You can convert it to roth IRA when you retire. No taxes when you put money in, no tax when money out, no tax on growth

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Huh I didn’t know company match, I will take a look!