Ask HN: Why is it difficult to achieve a FAANG-level salary while self-employed?
As a software engineer at a FAANG company, it is easy to earn $200k to $300k with just a few years of experience. At the same time, it is non-trivial to get to a similar level of salary while self-employed.My assumption would be that a company always has to pay engineers less than the value they generate. How is it then that a FAANG-engineer would struggle to achieve a similar salary on his own?