[ab8]

Is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars plus stocks and bonuses not enough of a reason to show up at work?

[jlokier]

I suspect the majority of readers are being paid less than $100k with no stock or bonuses, and correctly intuit that new-hotness things on their résumé will help them climb the salary ladder towards that magic $100k threshold.

[kortilla]

Well the funny thing is that once you crack FAANG interviews you can usually get offers from multiple of them and then money no longer becomes the decision factor. The choice becomes, “work on X and make $400k or work on Y and make $400k”. You bet the tie breaker often ends up being the prospects for working on cool shit.

[randmeerkat]

You would think so, but as it turns out, it’s not. First world problems^2.

[fractionalhare]

Not when that becomes table stakes, no. If you have five different companies offering you that kind of money, eventually you'll start thinking about more than just the money.