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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by freeone3000 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:23PM (#18197149)
That was my signing bonus, nevermind pay or RSUs. It's not hard to acquire that much money.
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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by timdavila on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:48PM (#18197279)
>It's not hard to acquire that much money.

As a privileged developer, this is an extremely untrue and privileged statement. Developers like myself who don't live in SF are lucky to receive any signing bonus, and would be lucky to earn half of that as a yearly salary. Outside the US it's not possible. You are part of a very small and very fortunate group.

Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#salary

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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by TomVDB on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:00PM (#18197714)
The original question is: "ex-FAANG developers...".

In that context, it's definitely priviledged but far from being extremely untrue.

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