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With the way people get added and removed from big tech, why is having worked at these companies still considered a badge of honor?

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I don’t know if it’s a badge of honor, but it’s definitely highly desirable because they pay a lot. The term FAANG was originally coined to group together extremely high paying companies.

Basically, if you are L5 or above and can survive 4 years at Meta, you’re guaranteed to be a millionaire by the end of it. Go to levels.fyi and do the math yourself.

Mathing that backwards, you’re saying L5 makes 250k/year? That seems very low for Senior.

Your housing, childcare, food, and even taxes are $0? Wow dude.

After paying tax, rent, food, retirement savings, etc, you will have a million in liquidity sounds like more than 250k/year.

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