It’s impossible to say for sure, but there’s a certain pervasive collective worship of these employers that will just not quit.
Four years is probably optimistic, unless you got lucky with stock growth.
I searched for "average cost of living map" and found a site[1] that says cost of living at Santa Clara County is $138K. I then did a search for "average salary at Google" and one website[2] says it's $124K, which suggests saving enough money in 4 years on salary alone would be difficult.
You might think that working for Google while living somewhere outside of Bay Area would be a good way to save, but because compensation is dependent on where you live, this doesn't always work out.
[1] https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/budget-map/
[2] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Google%2C_Inc....
> The cost of living for a two-parent, two-child family
The typical case is more likely single or DINK.
Manage the money well, throw in a couple of bonuses and a favorable liquidity event around y4 and it's plausible enough to become a motivator or rationalization, I assume.
The average salary for a mid-career engineer at google is north of $300k if you assume no stock movement.
That's my observation as well. And I think this applies especially to Google: for some reason it still has the reputation of this cool tech company here on HN, even though it's an advertising and user tracking/profiling company at this point, and there is really nothing "cool" about it anymore. But criticize Google on HN and you'll get downvoted really quickly.
It’s a pretty large absolute number of people, although thanks to section 1 clause b, it’s growing smaller.
YMMV, but “people who worship recent FAANG employment” can be a filter that’s positive to apply when seeking employment.
