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0 pointsGrimm15y ago0 comments

I see the time spent making that 300k at a fang as 40-60 hour a week opportunity cost on better work with the caveat that if you are doing work you consider personally interesting then good for you. I think ultimately we have very different priorities from each other though and view money differently as well.

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komali25y ago

Well that's fair, though a different discussion. I would argue you could probably find a project at Google that promotes your values, who knows though.

In any case, my numbers hold up for bay area startup salaries as well - if they didn't, I wouldn't live here lol.

Grimm1OP5y ago

I'm currently working on founding a search engine that is in direct opposition of Google's values, or potentially lack thereof, so I think that might be a hard sell for them ;)

And the numbers don't really work out for founders for the first couple years in terms of any salary so I think again we view money differently. I'm not really disputing that your numbers work for being an employee but they don't really hold out for people working to start their own thing, at least in the short term. As I'm sure the OP is aware there's intangible benefits that don't take the form of a retirement account associated with running your own thing.

Edit: I'll also say we may be at a point where we're starting to talk passed each other, your math checks out for sure I just don't value the benefits associated as much.

komali25y ago

That's really cool, care to link? I'm slowly extricating myself from Google and Facebook.

I think we don't disagree for reasons other than raw money about why working somewhere other than FAANG would be good. Probably reasons similar to why I don't work at FAANG ;P

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komali25y ago

Well that's fair, though a different discussion. I would argue you could probably find a project at Google that promotes your values, who knows though.

In any case, my numbers hold up for bay area startup salaries as well - if they didn't, I wouldn't live here lol.

Grimm1OP5y ago

I'm currently working on founding a search engine that is in direct opposition of Google's values, or potentially lack thereof, so I think that might be a hard sell for them ;)

Edit: I'll also say we may be at a point where we're starting to talk passed each other, your math checks out for sure I just don't value the benefits associated as much.

komali25y ago

That's really cool, care to link? I'm slowly extricating myself from Google and Facebook.

I think we don't disagree for reasons other than raw money about why working somewhere other than FAANG would be good. Probably reasons similar to why I don't work at FAANG ;P

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