What's it like to work in silicon valley for the large tech companies like google?

I'd pay my way in for those benefits.

You're making 180k a year and it costs 30k to live there.

this, sure it's 2x as expensive but you're getting paid 3x as much, so it's still more than worth it to live there

hahaha 30k to live in san Francisco? average rent is 3.6k a month just off rent alone you're already above 30k. what about food? what about taxes? what about everything else.

thinking the most expensive city in america you can pay 30k to live there.

No one said anything about San Francisco.

'If your income is sufficient to cover your cost-of-living expenses, you can live comfortably. The study found that you would need to earn $110,357 to achieve that goal in San Francisco — more than New York, Honolulu or Washington, D.C.'

you really don't understand how expensive some of these places are. and yes they're like pullman towns everything is owned by certain companies google amazon etc. even all the restaurants, housing, etc. they artificially inflant the prices of everything.

where do you think google is located genius?

Why do you keep bringing up San Francisco?

Not in San Francisco.

where is google located? all the big tech companies are located in the most expensive cities Seattle, san fran, etc.

>Oooh, the locals are mad at me! I'm so scared! Oooh, the locals!

Don't forget most of that obscene amount of money you get paid isn't enough to cover your basic needs in a hyper inflated city full of pretentious cunts.

Not at all. My expenses were 33k last year, and 8k of that was in tax payments, which doesn't really count.

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Because to faggots, that's the beginning and end of the known universe.

Homeless in Mountain View? Good one. Maybe in terms of real wealth, they are homeless. But they are actually millionaires.

Honestly what do they think is gonna happen?
Well shit better pack the company up boys the locals hate us we need to go!
Everyone knows they don't have the balls to do jack shit about anything happening to their city.

>Hungry? Eat lunch at the Google cafeteria.
if you're on a big site you will have at least 5 cafeterias close by
>Have Consuela wash your clothes at the Google laundromat.
there are laundry rooms but no consuela
>No babysitter? Take your kids to the Google daycare.
still costs 10s of thousands of dollars a year
>Need a shower because you've been at work for 22 hours? Go to the Google gym to freshen up.
people don't work that much

a 180k salary is usually reserved for senior engineers not low level developers or even team leads.

You woul be lucky if you earned 180k the second you move in, see this

calling it their city is pointless they don't own it the people who have the most capital own a city . the business owners, corporations and workers.

some 11/hr dishwasher has the minimum amount of capital in a city it's hardly 'theirs' at all.

It's not like they care about it anyway. This is the problem with libtard socialists. They complain so much when they don't get their free gibs from the government. Every message from a libtard will be followed by why they need more gibs and programs

180k is the annual income of a new grad at Google. I never said anything about salary.

city? relationship status? size and area of your house?

Without context sure you are earning a great buck and have a senior level salary but that's it.

You have no clue how expensive California is dude. It's crazy

Sunnyvale, single, 700 sqft 1 bedroom
3 years experience

>90k a year to work for google

perhaps a janitor at google makes that much

2700 a month is still more than twice as much as I spend living in the south

>Sunnyvale
>700 sqft
>33k per year in total expenses
Sorry dude but that is absolute bullshit unless you own the house and bought it decades ago that is literally impossible.

You should be looking at the surplus, not spending.

It's a weird duplex where the units aren't entirely separated so it isn't that attractive. Rent is $1800 a month and I barely spend on anything else since most things like food, transportation, and even home internet are provided by my employer.

> 700 sqft 1 bedroom
> single

well that says it all, also average entry level engineer positions on google are around 104-130k a year, so you are either at a high level position or a scarce meme dev position like data engineering type shit.

I have friends working for other SF companies as team leads and they are barely hitting the 160-170k a year mark.

No. Even Javascript code monkeys get paid 180k a year.

>104-130k
That's base salary, not total comp

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I'm not talking shit on his savings, just saying it's still expensive

What's the program/app?

Berkshire Hathaway stock is expensive too.

Not sure where you are going with that but ok

>locals

How about you educate yourself, if you need a job so bad. Now hurry up with my order or I'll have a talk with your manager.

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Jow Forums overstates the cost of living.

We are the locals now. Get fucked.

The median home cost of SF is over a million burgers. If anything they understate it, I lived there for 4 years and I wouldn't go back for under 300k a year

>SF

Given the price you're paying for that privilege it's more like a gang rape than just a one on one rape. You're laughing because your dick is in that guy's ass while a property developer is ramming you even harder.

San
Francisco
Try and keep up the big boys are talking

Why would you live in San Francisco if you were working for a tech company in the valley?

man you are stupid.

You cant possibly be this retarded

Why are you buying a home in SF if you work in snv or mtv?

You're the retarded one for living in a more expensive location full of homeless people and poop just so you can commute 1 hour a day to your job.

No user, we should just pull the plug.

You can't live on $30k in San Jose either you stupid fuck.

You can get apartments in downtown for $1600 a month.

Which would be 2/3rds of your monthly income before taxes.

There's barely anything else you would need to spend money on.

Even interns in silicon valley make more than 90k lol, not even including stipends for housing which most companies give

1600 is 2/3 of your pretax monthly income? Maybe at fucking McDonald's

I live in Mountain View for ~10k core expenses.

I'm not the idiot arguing you can live on $30k in San Jose bro. Read the thread.

Must be a blast.

Not everyone cares about eating out every day or having a "nice" apartment.

Hey man, if you can live like a Shudra and wageslave in the armpit of the technocracy living on $10k, more power to you. It's still not a reasonable way to live for someone not hyper-autistic or from the third world though.

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I hope you're having fun, but you're really not making a strong case for me.

There's plenty of homeless in Mountain View, friendo. Drive down Crisanto by Rengstorff park, where the day worker center is.

A lot of people have the same "please don't move here" attitude in Austin. It's usually the people that have only lived there 2-5 years and don't realize they're part of the same wave of newcomers that already pushed out the "real locals".

It especially annoys me that it's usually hipster/artsy-type people who bitch about this. These type of people move to these cities for stuff like the bar scene and trendy restaurants. HEY IDIOTS: those places exist in places like SF and Austin specifically to feed off the tech workers. Move to Des Moines or Akron or Birmingham if you actually care about getting away from tech people.

And what activity does a fun person like you spend money on? It won't be any more expensive in Mountain View than bumfuck flyoverland.

Getting married next year, buying property, not dying in a 400 square foot apartment.

I live a safe quiet neighborhood with no homeless or crime.
My commute is 5-15 minutes depending if I drive or bike.
I eat delicious and varied food for free at work.

I can ski world class terrain every weekend in winter for ~50 bucks a trip.
I can be at multiple beaches in 30-45 minutes.
I can go for day hikes in redwoods or weekend camping in the mountains.

How much is the property? I probably have enough it buy it outright. Have fun paying off that mortgage for 30 years.

I don't need a "nice" apartment per se, but I refuse to live in one of those scenarios where 8 people share a two bedroom apartment. I'd be happy with a cozy studio apartment for just me, not asking for much. That's probably easy to get if you work at a tech company that will give a fresh grad $100k, but I made the fucked up life choice to go into biology but not get a Ph.D, so even with 6 years of experience about the best I can manage in SF would be $65K pre tax.

How do you pull off $10k? Many people in one house/apartment or some bullshit where your family owns the property and barely charges rent.

Cool flex. Like I said, I hope you're having fun, but living on $10k in Silicon Valley isn't a reasonable lifestyle decision for the vast majority of people. And if it were, it would suddenly cost more than $10k, because economics. Just be thankful we don't all have your fortitude.

>How do you pull off $10k?
Easy peasy when it's monthly

>Have fun paying off that mortgage for 30 years

Better than paying rent for 30 years and getting nothing at the end of it in the end.

I'm not paying rent for 30 years. I'm paying rent for 2 years then then can buy the same property in bumfuck flyoverland that you would need to spend 30 years paying for.

>full of pretentious cunts.
This is the main reason I (hypocritically) can't stand both west and east coastlines.

I'm not that person. 10k a year in non-rent expenses is a lot. I spent 5k last year and most of that was on a gaming PC and VR hardware. I don't see how that can be an unreasonable lifestyle.

Why would you want to live in Bumfuck flyoverland though? When you could be experiencing all the culture in Silicon Valley? All the trannies and shit in the streets? Why would you even want to move?

Apples to apples comparison. You said you wanted to buy a property in bumfuck flyover land, so that's what I'll go for too.

Yeah man, I get it. I'm too old for this site now. We're talking about having kids, I'm not even sure $10k is enough to keep them out of public schools.

every apartment i've lived in has asked for an offer letter/pay stub to confirm my monthly rent is no more than 1/3rd my monthly take home pay. i guess you could just forge that shit pretty easily or get mommy to cosign

Then I'll take the money I saved and move to your flyover state where everything is cheaper.

That rent would be 1/10 of my monthly take home pay.

>How do you pull off $10k?
I got lucky and found a nice room to rent in a house with chill owner. Since I eat at work I don't use kitchen much at all so I am an appealing tenant.
I pay ~800 for rent, utilities, and internet.
Gas costs are minimal since I live so close to work and can bike as well.
Food costs minimal since I eat at work.
Obviously this is not applicable to everyone.

LOL. time to die

Cool? Like I said man, living on $10k in Silicon Valley sounds like absolute hell to me. If you're actually doing it and not just some tool lying on the internet, saving up your wageslave money and bailing on SV is a great plan. I personally could not do it. Come on over? No idea why you think this is a contest.

That sounds like a benifit to me. Almost like how Japan runs things, only Google will happily fire you out of no where.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

That sounds amazing are you kidding?!

Not like it's much better here. Some people aren't cut out to be much of anything so it's not suprising they'd kill themselves living in a society where you're expected to be something.

The loyalty jap companies tend to show their employees though is still pretty cool. Has it's own basket of issues, but I recall hearing about how in the days where domestic cars were made domestically, companies in the U.S. would treat their employees as investments, not disposable meat bags.

>made $167k at a tech job
>spending saturday night on a dilation imageboard

What does my employment or income have to do how I spend my free time?