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To everyone curious why I quit my *very* lucrative job at @Facebook.
Happy to respond to anything people want to know. Ask me anything.
I negotiated an initial compensation package of $1M/yr and was hired as L7 Software Engineer in Feb 2019. At current wild stock prices I'd making over $1.5M/yr had I not quit.
And by sharing this, I hope to shed some light how much more higherlevel-ups do make, and those who negotiate. I felt guilty of it all the time but admit I was acting against my values by not sharing public up to this moment...
That was the one most important lesson I learned after I joined Google: that programming has no glass ceiling. That's why I didn't use the MBA I studied for part-time between 2009-2012 to go into management instead. Wasn't necessary to make $$$$ at Google, mostly fueled by FB.
I'm Bipolar II, and this is how my hypomania bursts look like. I'm also identify as non-binary and pansexual.

I was on fully-paid medical leave at Facebook when I left. I can't be any happier about that decision.
I didn't share before, because even sharing one's earnings is tabooed by the common culture. Because that maximizes profits for the Capitalism cancer that has hijacked modern society.

I acted based on my fear of being judged by my peers and harassed by internet trolls if shared.
You don't get this on #Glassdoor, because high-earners are a tiny minority to begin with and less like to self-disclose total comps.
Even when you get, is attributed to personalI "achievements". The systemic inequality that enabled it is dismissed.
Kudos to @Facebook Open Source team. They received complaints and wanted to investigate my tone on twitter. They backed out (and cancelled video meeting) when I said this is all part of an industry-wide exposing I'm doing and my manager backed my claim.
HR on the other hand, who reached out to me a day later, was HR-tonedeaf as expected. Am glad they did though and I gave in my notice same day.
Am going to tweet my entire career salary and negotiations trajectory. Unlike Orange-head happy to share tax returns.
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