&gt; It&#x27;s really, really doable at a large company within 5 years if you hit senior level and live in a metropolitan area.<p>If, if, if, if. Just by numbers, most devs don&#x27;t meet these criteria. And even in the periods of time which I personally have, I still was not making anywhere near this kind of money.<p>These numbers are inflated and out of reach to the vast majority of developers in the workplace today, full stop.