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With real estate and rent so expensive a protest by a junior employee pretty much ends in moving back with their parents or homelessness.



Nah. Even were I a junior employee, I could go work at any company offering a six figure salary and continue to live comfortably without roommates in SF. Rent is exorbitant but you still end up with half your post-tax software engineer salary as disposable income.


From what I've seen of FB salaries, if an engineer is living paycheck to paycheck it's probably their own fault




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