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I agree with CoL being not much different and companies just using that as a reason are misleading. It’s quite unfortunate that, if you’re a SR SWE in a normal company max you can make is 100k and that would translate into ~5500 net. If you have 2 kids and wanna rent big enough house near an outstanding school in zone 2, ok crime rate, with council tax and bills it’s quite possible to spend at 3500 of that just for housing. Not leaving much money for non-essential fun things.

Another reason for crazy salaries in the valley is limited talent pool, which might change soon with companies moving to remote or at least being remote friendly. It’s quite hard to get someone into the US with H1B. As far as I know even Facebook and Google stopped sponsoring.

I worked for companies at various sizes FAANG and non-FAANG in London and I would say what FAANG pays is much better than what most of the startups or other companies such as banks pay.

Base salaries are usually similar but RSU and other benefits make the real difference. For example, most of the tech companies in London don't even provide health insurance, since they rely on NHS.

Startups try to use options to convince people but what you're given mostly wouldn't make you a millionaire in the event of exit or IPO.

I guess the other group of companies who could match what FAANG offers as a whole package would be hedge funds. I would say it's harder to enter them tho, since they still can throw your CV to the bin just because you don't have a degree from oxbridge.

Is TerarkDB used as store engine for MySQL like FB does?

Thanks for the answer. I don't want to discourage you for your project, but this action is stricly forbidden on Instagram's Terms of Service (https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 Item 10)

Using this to sort out your own problem would probably fine as they will not notice it, but selling this as paid service might cause some trouble for you with Instagram Legal and also at the same time if you keep using same IP Instagram will probably block your APi after some time when they sense the usage.

Just a friendly notice for the things you might face in near feature :)

Hello Roberto, if you don't mind me asking I have 2 questions for you.

1) According to Instagram's guideline for developers, your app can't have words like "insta" or "gram" in it, how did you pass this if you are using an actual application in Instagram?

2) As far as I can see from the API documentation there is no way of posting your pictures to Instagram directly via API. Does your application send push notifications when time comes and give ability to create a post in Instagram by one click in the app or do you ask for username / password and login to the app and do what needs to be done?