That sounds great if you can ride that into retirement but if you get laid off and you start having to justify your existence again in the job market I dont think "I took home $300k for doing nothing and then got laid off" is a great sell.
I would never do this, and if you would do this I wouldn't want to work with you. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I sleep alright.
GP was achieving what their bosses asked of them. It's just that it didn't align with their own professional goals of improving the product they work on.
Let me unequivocal: you can spend 30-40 years at a company doing absolutely nothing while getting paid for it.
Do not let anyone try to convince you otherwise. I've seen such much unethical bloodsucking in my career that at this point I wouldn't mind seeing a few companies collapse under the weight of their own karma.
Not contributing meaningful things is an arbitrary metric that is often only used to put people down. One can build the whole product and there will still be some asshole claiming they did the easy part or “you didn’t work enough in it to know what’s like”.
The incompetence here lies 100% with person keeping the employee.
Maybe this was true for 40 years from the 70s to the 2000s, or maybe even the 80s-10s, but I don't think this is true anymore
Certainly not in software engineering, in a world run by JIRA
I still use it as a job board, personally.
I haven't had to apply for a job for a while, so genuinely curious what people would use these days if there wasn't anything coming via word of mouth.
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Better to do some carpentry or pottery outside of work and put your pride in that.
saying you did things, which you did not do, is lying about your experience
That’s not very appealing to most.
MORE THAN HALF make less, and they are actually working during that timeframe.
You'll get hired, if you pass the technical interviews, but if you cannot contribute at the level they hired you, you'll be exited and that will be suspicious for your next application.
But this is the case for anyone anywhere, it doesn't effect the OPs position one way or another.
Sounds like an unlikely problem and by then you can pull a reverse end run around your manager to their manager who doesn't know what they are doing and will believe anything the guy who worked at google says.
Most people here actually work for that guy.
This person could move on to do solid technical work with higher business value at a place that used their skills more effectively.
The former isn't great, but it is a reality at many big companies.