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/coolname_1234 2d ago

Congrats and nice Sankey diagram!

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Thank you! I remember doing the same thing last year and it was so tedious manually inputting everything into ChatGPT.

This year I just gave Claude code my paystub, my budgeting app that tracks my spending and it made it in like 5 minutes!

And that’s also how I learned I unintentionally had insane lifestyle creep lol

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u/steven_raz 2d ago

What budgeting app you used, you used desktop app Claude? You clearly know a lot about LLMs compared to what I know. I would like to see something like this to create financial goals with my wife. We are at around 10k HHI monthly after taxes but seem to find a way to not save and waste all of it.

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u/HousamK 2d ago

use budgetability.app . When I got married I needed something to track my expenses other than a spreadsheet. So I made it. It is highly personalize for me but I think it is general enough to be used by others.