[kod]

> I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable

I've had roles where I changed ~5 lines of code that resulted in at least my yearly salary worth of reduced operating costs. Programming can be a high-leverage activity, FAANG salaries aren't necessarily irrational.

[sorokod]

Is it possible that those ~5 lines of code where introduced by your predecessor who had a similar salary?

[kod]

No, they were introduced by the founder, and were getting the job done, just not anywhere near as efficiently.

[TurkishPoptart]

You should do a blog post about this.

[shoo]

thing kind of result may not necessarily be from doing anything particularly exotic, it may be largely a consequence of finding a situation where there's enough scale or leverage in making an change to a key component or bottleneck, finding something that is being done in a silly way, and improving it.