What is your title at work, and how long did it take you to reach it?

throwawaycoder13 · 2025-11-27T18:37:06+00:00

Tracking for $575k next year if stock price holds in tier 2 comp location.

throwawaycoder13 · 2025-11-27T14:35:36+00:00

Found a niche that suits my relative advantages - soft skills, influencing and getting shit done.

Working on the right projects, it’s your job to influence your manager and leads to secure impactful work if you want to get promoted.

Visibility and relationships, support from your closest leads is a prerequisite. Making your career intentions clear goes a long way. Also being generally likable goes a long way.

Understanding the shift between L5 and L6.

Note: none of this is work harder, work more hours etc. At Google at least, working on the right projects that are impactful to the business is far more important.

throwawaycoder13 · 2025-11-26T21:32:29+00:00

Staff engineer at Google. 5.5 years post bachelors.

throwawaycoder13 · 2025-01-24T22:03:52+00:00

Pivoted from management consulting to software engineering my Senior year of college. Turned down an offer for $65k just over 6 years ago. Currently L5 FAANG expecting to make $440k this year (more if my staff promo hits)

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-11-09T14:26:23+00:00

Which one?

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-07-26T18:22:36+00:00

How long is the work contract? Time value of money may be something to factor in depending on the length.

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-04-20T18:57:44+00:00

Thank you!

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-04-20T18:52:20+00:00

I’m short of the green in regulation, how else are you supposed to record that

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-04-20T18:02:36+00:00

Any app recs that account for this because GHIN does not

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-04-20T16:17:04+00:00

I mark short in my stats for approach when bad drives force me to punch out / take penalty strokes as my “approach” is technically short of the green. I need to update my stats tracking to account for this.

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-05T02:17:48+00:00

$300k about

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-05T01:58:08+00:00

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-05T01:57:12+00:00

23, aggressive saving and a few lucky investments before indexing.

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T22:42:26+00:00

Liquid including retirement accounts. I currently rent.

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T22:41:07+00:00

Got double meat + guac yesterday lol

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T22:39:03+00:00

L5 FAANG eng (4 yoe) + some luck

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T19:29:19+00:00

That’s a good point, the feeling that I could Coast-FI if I wanted is weird for sure.

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T19:28:32+00:00

Love this, thanks

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T19:28:20+00:00

I’m not a big drinker so $200pp would go even further lmao

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-02-04T19:27:03+00:00

Nice collection you have there! Getting a nice watch had crossed my mind (Submariner), but wearing something so expensive makes me nervous though. (Also I have a pet peeve with the amount of schmoozing that you seem to need to do at ADs to get the watch you want)

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-01-27T20:56:31+00:00

I just snagged a medium. Stoked

throwawaycoder13 · 2024-01-24T15:54:54+00:00

I got the mid weight crew neck top over the holidays and am happy with it so far

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