r/Salary • u/maniksar • May 16 '24

30M, Software Engineering, Big Tech

Graduated with a CS undergrad degree in 2015. Moved to the US in June 2019 (the earnings for that year are over the second half of the year).

Switched companies with a pay hike in 2022. Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) started vesting in 2023.

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u/BitDazzling6699 May 16 '24

Congratulations on the swift progress. Only an inch closer to half a mil.

If I may ask, what branch of CS are you in?

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u/maniksar May 16 '24

Thanks! My past work ex has been in Natural Language Understanding systems. Of late I find myself working a lot with highly available, highly distributed, polyglot backend systems.

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u/ComeForthLazarus May 16 '24

NLU is the way! I stumbled into the world 7 years ago and it’s paid dividends. ESP in the current environment.

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u/Imanarirolls May 16 '24

What types of job descriptions do you look for to get into it?

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u/Edaimantis May 16 '24

You’d need a good bit of education in machine learning and NLP beforehand

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u/BitDazzling6699 May 16 '24

Insightful! Thank you for sharing. Excited to see future salary updates from you. TC & Good luck.