Do you know the meme on Reddit that shows a blob in a square, deciding to give the outside world a try, gets punched and says never again?
That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.
That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.
Not to mention the first 6 months or so at a new job trying to figure out how the internal politics work. "Better the devil you know" and all that.
Stop interviewing at code assembly lines? There are loads of sane places to work at with sane interviews and great tech and pay. FAANG and similar are undergoing a slow rot. You’ll do fine.
4 different jobs I interviewed for. All of them were reasonable, the one I accepted had 3, 1 hour interviews, the questions asked were very reasonable, friendly, etc.
I dunno, maybe I'm lucky but I've avoided FAANG my whole career and only had good experiences in interviews.
If there's a good filter to avoid that nonsense I'd love to know what it is. Somewhere around a decade ago I interviewed with Apple and it was nowhere near as obnoxious as what I've seen so far.
ok i may be living in a bubble or something. where in the world is looking for work in tech a grind?
From the rest of your comments you seem pretty confident and specific about not having these problems, so I’m curious to know what’s in your secret sauce.
Also I like to see that engineering managers are the ones doing recruiting if it’s a company that is not Google sized, or at least a recruiter who specializes in engineering. I don’t trust that the “Head of talent” shares the same motivators that get me out of bed In the morning. An engineering manager might not either, but I feel safer betting in that direction.
My two cents, YMMV, mine certainly has
You meant to say when you interview for the wrong companies?
Google’s (and other leetcode nurseries) been steadily regressing. Not sure you want to be a part of it. Only idiots build sorting algos in 2022 let alone ask highschool questions about them. Keep hunting and grab some popcorn - it will be fun to watch.
Working at Google may be going down with the ship, but at least in the end you get to sail away on your golden life boat.
Not saying you have to join a non profit, just consider what you want to work on, who you want to work with, and the kind of hours you want to put in.
However, if you only focus on pay you drastically diminish your search space. No SV company is actually pushing the bounds of AGI research for example.
Even if they're at the "elite grand master SRE" level. Still a fraction of some MBA.
however there is nuance to everything. some people find 200k a year and living with flatmates in an expensive city rewarding. to each their own. i know i did. until it hit me.
Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you have an off day and place a brick upside down.
Professional football player? It's repetitive manual labor! Often performed outdoors in inclement weather. High likelihood of involuntary retirement due to workplace injury.
Executive? Staring at endless spreadsheets all day... With rows and rows of those brick-like rectangular cells...
All fun aside, I don't think many bricklayers could find it within themselves to complain about making 200k a year to work in jeans and a hoodie in an air-conditioned building with foosball tables and free snacks.
every MBA factory bases its metrics on the average compensation of alumni, and they're pretty pathetic in comparison
anyway, to the person above you, Google isn't top of the pack in initial comp package or upside, within tech
Most MBAs didn’t graduate from Harvard or Wharton or equivalent schools. They’re people who believed that there were high returns to the valuable skills they were going to learn instead of realising it’s a finishing school where you network. Graduates of the University of Northeastern Illinois’s business school are not going to do much better than FAANG software engineers. This holds more, not less for the members of the professions. The super rich people with JDs aren’t practicing lawyers.