I served at Google as an SRE for 2+yrs. I burnt out and ragequit. Now I'm an SRE at a startup.
I hear that the median time of service for FAANG SREs is just shy of 2yrs. Dirty open secret if it is true.
I hear that the median time of service for FAANG SREs is just shy of 2yrs. Dirty open secret if it is true.
That's most places, FAANGs notwithstanding. 6 months getting up to speed, realizing what a clusterfuck it is by 12 months, dealing with it to 18 months, and then getting to the I-Want-Out point at 24+ months.
Plus the whole "jump ship every 2-3 years to maximize salary" thing is possible for FAANG-level engineers.
I wouldn't read too much into this. I've worked at tech companies where 4 years of tenure was considered old and non-tech companies where 8 years was considered young.
Anecdotal evidence or course, but IME people with strong skills in the tech industry (even if it's tech marketing or tech HR) have a lot more options to change jobs for salary or experience reasons. If you're ambitious you're going to be even more inclined to move up or move out.
Whereas three years ago, I knew everyone's name across three floors.
Tech turnover is just so high, even our C Suite have almost all changed twice since I've been here.
I'm easily one of the longest standing members of staff and we have over 1,000 tech employees.
https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty/full...
2 years median time of service != median employee quit after 2 years
2 years median time of service can be explained by lots of people quitting, or by lots of people being hired (and usually a mix of both).
I've noticed at Google that some positions (like recruiting coordinator) seem to churn quickly, while others (like software engineer) churn much more slowly. I haven't seen many engineers quit in less than two years (and certainly not in 1.1, which is the median in the data you linked to)