How rich are Google/Microsoft software engineers?

People are people. Some people live frugally and save most of their money. Some live high and blow the whole stack. There is nothing about google that changes human nature. read more

That said, Google and Microsoft software engineers generally make enough to live very comfortably, but not enough to be "rich" by popular definitions of "rich". An engineer who works for 10 years, reaches the "senior" level, lives well but not extravagantly, and is smart with their money could reasonably put away one million dollars, between retirement and non-retirement sources. read more

Assuming you jump from senior software engineer to engineering manager, you double your pay at Apple and Facebook. Google managers don’t do as well, but Google has always been known as an engineering driven company, and light on management. read more