How I job-hopped to early retirement as a software engineer

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Here's how much money I made at every point in my career at Netflix, IBM, and Grubhub

I spent around ten years working in the tech industry as a software engineer at companies like Netflix, Grubhub, and Credit Karma.

Through a combination of job-hopping, aggressively saving, investing, luck, and earning high salaries, I was able to retire comfortably at 30. I started my career at IBM in 2014, right out of University. I left partly because it was a huge company with too much process, and partly because the praise I received for my work was not reflected in my salary and raises. I didn't feel like the money I was making was representative of my value to the company, so I left.After IBM, I moved to San Francisco and joined a small startup called Dwolla. They had a great tech stack and had much less process. It was the opposite of IBM.

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