Exactly. Whenever people here talk about the “typical software developer’s” career or salary or working environment, they point to top outlier employees at top outlier companies and pretend that’s how the average tech worker lives. For every level 7 Facebook or Google engineer diving into a swimming pool full of RSUs, there are probably 100 mid level programmers at HugeConsultancy body shops and medium sized zombie Enterprise Java companies working shoulder to shoulder and sharing apartments. Helps to keep that perspective.