
#90 Shawn "Swyx" Wang: from Dev to AI Founder
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
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The Importance of Taking a Pick Cut
I was a software engineer at Two Sigma. I got my pick doubled from the other five to Amazon. And then cut again when I left Amazon. Because quite honestly, nobody pays like FANG.Amazon's cheap. I've been told that I could have made more Netflix. So your salary is kind of like a saw wave. Yeah,. It's a winner, right? Like, you know, I don't have kids. Like I'm not optimizing for a short term gain. I'm on Tony's for a sort of long term learning. But yeah, what he says to other people is that it's always a difficult pill to swallow. Every time I've left my job to
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