Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by iends on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:18PM (#18173062)

This is not true at all in my experience. What compensation number do you think is fair for new CS grads?

10 years ago new CS grads were getting 60k/yr and moving up quickly. Now that I often hire for the area, it's closer to 70k in my experience. Yes, you can move to SFO and make 90k, or more? But you have to adjust drastically for cost of living. Perhaps you get better RSUs and free lunch?

Once you get more senior salaries the salaries are even more competitive. The only thing that doesn't seem popular is huge pile of RSUs that you'd get working for one of the SFO companies.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by akhilcacharya on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:20AM (#18173512)

90k is considered very low today overall. The average new grad gets like ~150ish, give or take 20. If you get a big signing bonus like they do at Facebook it goes up to 225k+ TC for the first year. My friend graduating this year just signed an offer for ~210k first year at a trading company.

It’s definutely worth it to chase the money out of undergrad IMHO.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:11AM (#18182128)

What to grads typically do with all that money. I started on about $30k and it was more than enough. Is it all squirreled away for the future? I'd hope so!

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by akhilcacharya on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:33AM (#18183557)

Most of them save and have really nice lifestyles. I know a bunch of people who are on track to retire early.

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