Eric Yu
- Eric Yu is a former software engineer at Meta who experienced panic attacks due to work pressure.
- He brainstormed new ways to generate income because he wanted to quit his tech job.
- He left his high-paying job once he tried house hacking and grew confident in real estate investing.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Yu, a 28-year-old former software engineer at Meta. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
In 2016, after a series of back-to-back interviews with Google, Meta, and Palantir, I was on a flight back home when I received my software engineer offer letter from Facebook. At that very moment, I felt like I had reached the top of a mountain. A few days later, I also received an offer from Google.