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Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by manfredo on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:05PM (#20944708)
My starting salary was $110k, and I couldn't sell any stock for my first 3 years. Living in SF was not very hard, I opted to live alone in a studio costing $1.8-1.9k. I could still save about half my post tax income.
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Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by heyoni on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:07PM (#20945278)
How long ago was this? And do you own your own home now?
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Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by manfredo on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:25PM (#20945460)
That was 4-5 years ago. No, I don't own my own home. The SF real estate market is inflated, IMO, and I could easily see housing prices drop once the populace has had enough of restrictive development policies. Salaries are high enough that I'm still saving good money while renting.
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