I made over $800K at Meta. Here's how I significantly increased my compensation.

• Rahul Pandey is a former tech lead and manager at Meta.
• Pandey writes that he struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome when he first joined Meta. 
• In 2022, he left his $823,000 pay to build his own startup. 

When I was starting out in my career, I heard about tech workers making half a million dollars a year, but I didn't think it was actually attainable. I certainly didn't expect that I could make substantially more in just a few years.

I spent the past decade working as a software engineer across multiple companies in Silicon Valley and was able to drastically increase my income over the years.