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by swiftcoder 97 days ago
> Oh right, well it depends on CoL doesn't it?

To some extent, maybe, but often not. For example, London has similar cost of living to the Bay Area, and when I was at Meta experienced folks like Dan Abramov over in London were making about the same as fresh college hires in Menlo Park...
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0x3f 97 days ago
Yeah I was talking more about the definition of obscene. Like is it obscene to make 300k if housing is so expensive? I say no, and that London salaries are just bad. Although it would be preferable to fix the housing market.

To be fair though, Dan specifically is kind of notorious for messing up his comp negotiation. Did you not see the Twitter pile on at the time?

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swiftcoder 97 days ago
> Dan specifically is kind of notorious for messing up his comp negotiation

Indeed, but having seen the infamous spreadsheet, he didn't have all that much headroom (unless he agreed to move to the US)

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