Easiest way to make $300k+ working 40 hours a week.
Yeah, the time I worked at Google most people worked less than 40 hours a week.
> but my distinct impression is that one trades time for a significant chunk of money.
Right, I traded 30-40 hours a week (a significant amount of time) for about $250k a year (a significant chunk of money).
I know other FAANG are a bit more harsh to work at than Google, but I haven't heard of any place where 40 hours weeks isn't the norm. Except Amazon, but Amazon is just a regular toxic company, you find such at every paygrade.
I could be totally wrong, but my sense is that $300+ per annum is almost always accompanied by well over 40hours/week.
I worked there as a junior. The people I worked with had 500k+ and didn't work more than me. I have very low living expenses though and didn't want to stay in the HCOL area so I quit because I got more money than I needed.
One of my friends who works at Netflix got a ~$270k offer many many years ago. That is probably unspeakably and impossibly low for Netflix if you were to get an offer there today, but probably high for that time?
If you add the MULA companies, I believe ULA are on the higher side while M is on the lower.