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Thank you for the vote of confidence, but I'm a decent developer, not a $300k salary developer.

I mean, if you were paid market rates for interviews, you'd have to do a lot of interviews to net $300K.

I don't see how that is possible, ignoring the fact that doing that would be about as fun as gold farming on WoW circa 2007.

Never did I say I'd be making $300k per year. $100k a year to do three 5 hour interviews a week for $300k jobs? I would do that in a heartbeat.

Still highly unlikely. There are only a few cities that offer $300K jobs and they talk to each other. Most of them probably use just a handful of recruiting firms. Your name would get around. You could maybe change it, but I still doubt you'd get more than a few hours every few days, then it would dry up.

You'd have to interview about 12 hours a week (including Christmas and Thanksgiving), every week at only SV type companies and only for $300K jobs and pull it off for a year without getting caught before you hit $100K.

Highly unlikely.

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