"Between 2015 and 2024, I more than tripled my salary in Big Tech, from under $80,000 to $292,000. It felt unreal. But if I'd known that I'd make $302,000 in 2024 through my content creation side hustle, I think my younger self, who was lower middle-class and notvery financially literate, would feel proud. I've come a long way in building generational wealth for myself and the people in my life."
"I used my proposed $255,000 Microsoft salary to negotiate my starting salary at Google. You can try to negotiate your salary based on market value, but having multiple offers creates more leverage. One of the best things you can do to help with this is to align the timings of your interviews so you're getting job offers around the same time."
"In 2015, my first full-time year at Amazon, I earned around $77,000, rising to $127,000 in 2016, when I was promoted to data engineer II. My strategy for securing a promotion was to assess the work I was already doing and what I needed to do to show that I was at that level. By 2018, I had become a data scientist, earning $232,000 a year."
Sundas Khalid began in tech with an Amazon internship in 2013 and accepted a full-time data engineering role in 2015. Her Amazon salary rose from about $77,000 in 2015 to $127,000 in 2016 after a promotion to data engineer II, and to $232,000 by 2018 as a data scientist. She received offers from Google and Microsoft in 2019, used a proposed $255,000 Microsoft salary to negotiate at Google, and joined Google in December 2019. Between 2015 and 2024 her Big Tech salary reached $292,000. Her content creation side hustle earned $302,000 in 2024, and she hires a virtual assistant and editors to sustain it while working full-time.
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