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How much are you willing to pay for that money? First, getting hired at a FAANG is not easy. How many years are you willing to work, not work at a job, but just work at getting hired? Second, FAANGs pay well, but the work/life balance is often terrible. How many years are you willing to have no life, in order to get that kind of money? I would suggest that you think about having more of a life, even if you have less money, rather than grinding away at a chance at grinding away at a job that pays a lot. Your 30s are some good years. Live them; don't just work during them. But the first steps look the same. Learn a language - any one. Python is fine. And, whatever you're doing now, look for ways to help your work with a little programming - a script here that automates a manual process, a script there that makes something easier. Depending on your work environment, you may not even need to ask for permission to do those things. But now you have written code that's actually used. That opens doors at your current job to do more. Along this route, you get experience, and you get paid to get it. It's a wonderful thing if you can get it to happen. |