On: Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

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Have you heard about the various startups that specialize in expert data labeling, like Mercor? They can pay $100-$200/hr for highly specialized work, who knows how much they charge their clients. Translated to an annual wage, that's definitely in the SF/SV engineer range

As others have commented, some of the training is very specialized.

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Have you heard about working for mercor? You aren't working full time for them or sniffing anywhere close to a proper annual wage.