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Luck, basically. Working at Google was both a gateway to more opportunities, and a gateway to a much higher salary. I had been working remotely for a long tim
by drewg123 11y ago
Luck, basically. Working at Google was both a gateway to more opportunities, and a gateway to a much higher salary.
I had been working remotely for a long time for a small company, and making what I considered to be good money, considering that I lived in a fly-over state. When I was hired at Google, it more than doubled my salary after a while, when stock grants began to vest.
I now work for Netflix, and I am making even more than I was at Google. To this day, I cannot believe I am paid so much.
- beamatronic 11y agoAre you able to have a life outside work? How many hours do you work in a typicaly day/week ?
- drewg123 11y agoYes. I probably work about 45-60 hours in any given week. I have a family that I see for breakfast and dinner every day, and spend all day with most weekends. All-in-all, I work less, and have a far better work-life balance than I did a few years ago, when working for the small company. In that company, I had sole responsibility for an entire product area, and often worked over 80 hours per week. As an afterthought, I actually worked far less at Google. Probably about 45 hours a week. It was like a vacation. Being a cog in a machine and not on-call 24/7 was refreshing and enormously freeing after years of constant pressure.
- ameen 11y agoDo you mind sharing your contact details? I literally burned out by working at a SmallCo (24x7 on-call) and developed multiple diseases due to stress and unhealthy sleep patterns. I'm currently rehabilitating (from an unrelated surgery) and thinking of getting back into the game.
- Camillo 11y agoWhat team were you on at Google?