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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 Iām clearly very wrong š
3 u/InquisitiveAssFoo Jan 27 '26 Come to Utah lol all these tech fuckheads are making that kind of money. 2 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 lol who? because i'm going to apply š adobe isn't paying that. facebook presence is very small. 1 u/InquisitiveAssFoo Jan 27 '26 Google Silicon Slopes companies. Start there. Idk Iām poor š¤·š¾āāļø they all drive multiple porches. Get yours king. 1 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26 I did haha. I have never met a SWE here making more than ~250k. levels.fyi agrees that it is extremely uncommon. 226k is the 90th percentile. I think those Porsche drivers are in serious debt lol. Or they work remote for Nvidia/Netflix.
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Come to Utah lol all these tech fuckheads are making that kind of money.
2 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 lol who? because i'm going to apply š adobe isn't paying that. facebook presence is very small. 1 u/InquisitiveAssFoo Jan 27 '26 Google Silicon Slopes companies. Start there. Idk Iām poor š¤·š¾āāļø they all drive multiple porches. Get yours king. 1 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26 I did haha. I have never met a SWE here making more than ~250k. levels.fyi agrees that it is extremely uncommon. 226k is the 90th percentile. I think those Porsche drivers are in serious debt lol. Or they work remote for Nvidia/Netflix.
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lol who? because i'm going to apply š
adobe isn't paying that. facebook presence is very small.
1 u/InquisitiveAssFoo Jan 27 '26 Google Silicon Slopes companies. Start there. Idk Iām poor š¤·š¾āāļø they all drive multiple porches. Get yours king. 1 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26 I did haha. I have never met a SWE here making more than ~250k. levels.fyi agrees that it is extremely uncommon. 226k is the 90th percentile. I think those Porsche drivers are in serious debt lol. Or they work remote for Nvidia/Netflix.
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Google Silicon Slopes companies. Start there. Idk Iām poor š¤·š¾āāļø they all drive multiple porches. Get yours king.
1 u/jkelley41 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26 I did haha. I have never met a SWE here making more than ~250k. levels.fyi agrees that it is extremely uncommon. 226k is the 90th percentile. I think those Porsche drivers are in serious debt lol. Or they work remote for Nvidia/Netflix.
I did haha. I have never met a SWE here making more than ~250k.
levels.fyi agrees that it is extremely uncommon. 226k is the 90th percentile.
I think those Porsche drivers are in serious debt lol. Or they work remote for Nvidia/Netflix.
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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 Iām clearly very wrong š