Come on! Everyone posting on HN makes $500K a year, has a vacation home in Tahoe and drives a brand new Ferrari. They think "L6 at Google in the Bay Area" is the median job level for the entire software industry.

If this article and the comments here are to be believed, all you need to do to make L6 is grind on leetcode.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

Where’s n-gate.com when you need them, eh? :)

Man I miss n-gate. Sometimes I go back and read the archives just for fun.