My jaw damn near hit the floor when I got the offer. A lot of it is wrapped up in stocks, but the base salary is 175k with a cash signing bonus of 160k spread across the first two years’ paychecks.

Despite that (and even when saving quite aggressively), I still can’t afford more than my tiny condo in my area. It’s silly.

65k->72k->80k->92k->106k->113k->118k->277k

See if you can pinpoint the year I got into a big tech job.

I had a very similar issue. My configuration included a guest network, so I’m not sure whether that applies exactly to your situation. However, I couldn’t find a way to resolve it. I ended up having to factory reset it, after which point things began working properly. No idea which setting broke me, but setting up guest WiFi blocked all IPv4 traffic from all of my devices, even though they weren’t on the guest network.

Knowing programmers, I think a major unintended side effect of such a paradigm would be HUGE monolithic source files.