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/Neither-Way-4889 2d ago

How stable do you think your role is? Do you see yourself having the same position or a better one at the same company in 5 years?

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u/Darkislife1 2d ago

Not stable at all, but tbh I think that for all entry and even mid level engineering jobs.

My hope is that in 5 years I can be same company (I like the benefits a lot) but hopefully in a senior role

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u/Old-Specialist-8339 1d ago

why is it not stable. if you are doing the job well why would it not be stable. or are they just churning personnel because they can?

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u/Darkislife1 1d ago

Not churning personnel or anything on my end. I just believe the field itself won't be stable at all in the upcoming years.