Why Making 150k-200k in Data Science or Software Engineering Does Not Make You Successful

<p>I am very familiar with the corporate structure both from working in Fortune 500 companies and from working outside corporate, thus understanding it from both sides.</p> <p>Nowadays large corporations pay a starting salary of 100k+ to a new/raw data scientist, data engineer, or software engineer. After a couple of years and a promotion the salary can easily jump to 120k, and after 2&ndash;3 more years to 150k and beyond.</p> <p>To the person that is not familiar with these inner workings, it might look like the junior data scientist was so talented and dedicated to his/her job to get to 150k in their mid to late 20s &mdash; a feat that not many other jobs can duplicate.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@retire.early.in.mexico/why-making-150k-200k-in-data-science-or-software-engineering-does-not-make-you-successful-7041df2c140b"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>