Nah can’t reach 200k

Unlikely to be 200 if you are not a top top programmer / performer

Don't be a tech slave la.
Today news professor from China NTU quit his job to open nanotechnology. Founder etc.
They just bought a bungalow for 120 millions...

You be tech slaves lol.

Nope not so high. Unlike those finance role usually comp sci departments are small and usually you will only get promotion chance when your manager leaves the role so progression isnt very good. I've heard of friends salary from 5k to 6k over 5 years so increment quite low also

5 years ago... Salary is 3.2k now only 4.4k 5 years exp.
But fresh grad already warning 5k with 0 exp.

Joke of the century.

Agree losers exist and it is not easy as well. But I am on the other side. Most of my friends are getting around 120k+ in 5 years. Companies like Grab, Gojek, Shopee, Agoda pays around that range for mid level engineers. Google and FB pays even more. The number that mentioned is not pretty much median in those companies.

Why though? One of the IBs offering their software engineer interns >5k... not even a FT role

A lot of misconception here. They thought freshgrad salary is high because there is no differentiation between experienced employee and freshgrad. The fact is salary increased across the board in this sector. But tech sector caused a lot of confusion because there is huge differences between engineering and merely maintenance so called “IT”. The maintenance IT team typically ran by Project Manager whose job is to reduce cost as much as possible using little money to make the system barely run as well. The features is also developed by the PM. PM with very little product experience is a recipe for disaster. Hence, you often see inhouse product with 1990s feel to it with laggy system and 50% workable. The more advanced the tech in the organization, typically there will be less PM involved. Even within organisation, some team are more advanced than others. There wont be any PM involved at all for strategic projects like ML.

Anyone on a >200k annual pay package
 

Wondering what does it take to have a 200k annual package?

Is there anyone who is able to share your Role, YoE (Years of Experience), and which type of company to justify such payscale?

Thank you.

Open your own tech startup.
Build a product. Get lots of users.
Catch the attention of Microsoft or Google or Facebook.
Open IPO or sell to them for millions or billions.

Take the money. Either retire or start another startup.
Rinse and repeat. That's the real tech dream.

Not all this study comp Sci be tech slave work for 6 days a week 12 hours a day for some tech company...