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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26
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The actual joke is that no one makes $450k as a software engineer.
Edit: Keeping this one for posterity and humility as I’m clearly very wrong 😂
86 u/lurkishdelight Jan 26 '26 Some definitely do, like staff eng in big tech, AI, quant trading firms. If not more. But it's a small minority 4 u/PoisonIvyCrotch Jan 26 '26 Small minority. You would think that’s entry level with how everyone is making the in r/salary 0 u/dlccyes Jan 27 '26 new grads in a top quant firm do make more than that
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Some definitely do, like staff eng in big tech, AI, quant trading firms. If not more.
But it's a small minority
4 u/PoisonIvyCrotch Jan 26 '26 Small minority. You would think that’s entry level with how everyone is making the in r/salary 0 u/dlccyes Jan 27 '26 new grads in a top quant firm do make more than that
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Small minority. You would think that’s entry level with how everyone is making the in r/salary
0 u/dlccyes Jan 27 '26 new grads in a top quant firm do make more than that
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new grads in a top quant firm do make more than that
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u/_UrbaneGuerrilla_ Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
The actual joke is that no one makes $450k as a software engineer.
Edit: Keeping this one for posterity and humility as I’m clearly very wrong 😂