{"id":1010886,"date":"2026-05-29T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010886"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:25:29","slug":"meta-software-engineer-earning-300000-reveals-why-he-owns-no-car-tv-or-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/meta-software-engineer-earning-300000-reveals-why-he-owns-no-car-tv-or-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta software engineer earning $300,000 reveals why he owns no car, TV or couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 24, Raymond Zeng earns upwards of $300,000 a year working as a software engineer at Meta. But despite his high salary and posh Bay Area address, his apartment is almost empty by choice.<\/p>\n<p>Zeng told Business Insider that he does not own a car, a TV or even a couch. Friends often describe his lifestyle as \u201cSpartan\u201d, he revealed, adding that the stripped-down setup is intentional rather than financial necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 24, Raymond Zeng earns upwards of $300,000 a year working as a software engineer at Meta. But despite his high salary and posh Bay Area address, his apartment is almost empty by choice. Zeng told Business Insider that he does not own a car, a TV or even a couch. Friends often describe his lifestyle as \u201cSpartan\u201d, he revealed, adding that the stripped-down setup is intentional rather than financial necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010887,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010886\/revisions\/1010887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}