"When recruiters used to ask me for my salary expectations, I'd tell them my total compensation at the time, but I began to realize it didn't work in my favour. If I wasn't earning my market value, a company could offer me a lower salary based on the number I shared. Now, I'll either tell the recruiter I don't want to share my salary expectations or that I want to do the interview before telling them."
"In 2013, I broke into tech with an internship at Amazon, which led to a full-time data engineering role, and I started earning good money, $77,000 in my first full-time year. In 2019, I joined Google, where I'm now a principal analytics lead. After years of growing my salary, last year I earned $292,000 working in Big Tech - and $302,000 from my side hustle in content creation, where I share advice about breaking into tech."
A tech professional combined a Big Tech salary with a content-creation side hustle, earning roughly equal amounts from each in one year. The professional began in tech via an Amazon internship, advanced into data engineering, and later joined Google as a principal analytics lead. The professional advises avoiding giving the first salary number, instead prompting recruiters for the role's range and benchmarking offers with sites like levels.fyi. The professional emphasizes cultivating multiple income streams, discussing compensation with coworkers, saving consistently, and learning to invest to grow and manage wealth over time.
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