If you have the flexibility, most of the companies on this list recruit regularly in Australia for roles in the US. You may need to fly state-side of an on-site but the initial round can be done in Melbourne or Sydney.

Tech companies love E3 visas.

Your rent for a 1 bedroom is $2800-3500/month to start tho. Total tax rate around %33, and your marginal tax rate is ~%40.

If your interested, you could apply to these companies directly on their website. You would probably get a reply. Same with many startups. Go practice a whole bunch of leetcode questions and cracking the coding interview beforehand although.

It's good, but a huge chunk of this will be lost to taxes because he's in SV (I know because I live and work here as well, have been in a similar situation, and his numbers are plausible). So it's something to marvel at, but the actual amount going in the bank is much smaller.

Facebook offers $100k to new grad converting interns. $50k is nothing.

Hell even I get $66k over 2 years if I take Amazon and my friends don’t even think that’s good.