[mdgrech23]

the market is really tightening up. people love to say if you can't find a job it's b/c you're not skilled blah blah but if your making good money it may be hard to find another job at that income level.

[zamalek]

If you're reasonably polyglot then finding a well-paying job isn't too hard - the market is already swinging back towards favoring talent and open positions are climbing (at least according to an interview I listened to the other day [1]). Of course, if you're coming from the likes of Amazon then I'd be inclined to agree: 400k+ is a rarity - but you'd probably be able to pull it off by migrating to another MOFAANG.

Edit: in addition, if you are 400k+ you'd probably enjoy the privilege of skipping the interview and even having a position opened for you.

[1]: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/cedric-sellmann/

[rightbyte]

Favouring talent? The recruiters won't know how good you are. Talent doesn't help. Recruiting is more or less random in my experience.

[zamalek]

For upper level MOFAANG engineers earning more than 400k?

[antisthenes]

How many of these people actually exist worldwide?

Maybe try to make your advice more applicable to at least 5% of the population?

[zamalek]

That's moving the goal posts.

The first reply was concerned about the pay scale and 300-400k are scarce but usually available. So either you are in the < 400k camp where jobs are typically available, or you are in the > 400k camp where you don't have to worry about job availability.

Overall, if your opinion is that jobs aren't available with your pay scale, have you recently searched for one?

[noisenotsignal]

>400k and fully remote is still not easy. Most of the obvious high payers in big tech (e.g. Meta) have required days in the office, and I can think of very few high-paying companies that don’t have N days RTO at all levels (literally only Netflix off the top of my head).

It is also not the case that such people get in without interviews. Senior+ (though largely staff+) is generally when you can make 400k and there are definitely still grueling interview loops at those levels.

[asoneth]

Agreed. Finding remote jobs seems easy, the challenge is finding remote jobs that are interesting and pay close to my current salary.

I'd accept a 10-20% salary hit to skip my 20m commute 3 days a week, but so far the only options have been for 40%+ lower salaries or work that I am less interested in. For me that tradeoff is not worth it.