[badfrog]

Anecdotally, I've been a professional software engineer for around 10 years at top tech companies. I'm currently have similar pay and seniority as a Google L6. I've very rarely worked more than 9 hours in a day, and in those 10 years, I've spent less than 100 evenings coding on personal projects. So yeah, it's possible for sure.

[barry-cotter]

That’s around $200,000 in cash and up to about double that in stock and bonus according to

https://www.levels.fyi/

Most recently from Zürich, $448,000 210k Cash| 190k Stock 48k Bonus

[ilikehurdles]

Thanks for the explanation and link. I have no clue what levels at google are or correspond to.