Be careful what you wish for. The salary is prob real. I work in a very niche area of ai research and do big data consulting. I'm doing very well for myself. I have my 'job' and do consulting on the side. This way i am not reliant on a single company AND am extremely familiar with internal research that would take a newbie a few months to get up to speed with. It would be very costly in a time sense to fire me. Depending on your skill set it is common practice for companies to hire you with 'huge' salaries. You work 60+ hours a week for 2 months doing 'sprints' and 'crunches' and are then laid off before your benefits kick in or options are allocated to you. You basically get royally fucked in the ass. But get a high salary for a few months time. Ive also seen startups offer unreasonably high salaries but pay mostly in stock that cannot be sold for like 2 years. By that time the venture capital has dried up and the company is in liquidation where the options are basically bought out by goldstein for Penny's on the dollar or worse become worthless. So you can use this as a resume builder; leave your current employment on good terms and try your luck with the hustle. Then after a few months you can slap sr dev on your resume change the job title to something like software manager and apply for other company's at a higher pay. Or if you need stability just ask questions on the projects you will be working on and ask yourself if you realistically see this team being valuable to the company after a year. If its a mid to big size company use your time to network with other teams and try to weasel your way into more niche areas. I had my last review and asked for double my pay and they agreed. The more you know about internal spaghetti the more they want to retain you. Volunteer for the tedious legacy software maintenence or that garbage internal db management from the 70's every company seems to have not replaced because the api calls are hard coded for that specific program. You come to realize tech is literally a big scam. Its all about networking and socializing. If you can actually code you are considered godly and have a FUCK ton of work allocated to you because they want to hire tyrone and stacy to be a diverse progressive company. Thats why I fled to niche research. 0 niggers. Indians actually work (just dont pair them with women or put them in management) and chinks are like soulless code machine's. They just get the job done and never complain.