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Yep. I'm a MechE and my pay is decent (not amazing) for the area but I was fine with it due to a lot of other factors. In the last year or so, my company has h
by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Yep. I'm a MechE and my pay is decent (not amazing) for the area but I was fine with it due to a lot of other factors.
In the last year or so, my company has had a culture shift leading to down-to-the minute micromanagement and I've lost all autonomy - every decision requires approval of multiple managers. There's no realistic engineering salary they could pay me to continue putting up with this and I can't get out quick enough. Covid has made that a bit tough though.
- tartoran 6y agoLess autonomy also means less responsibility which affects growth in a bad way, but there is a small bright side to this, it reduces the cognitive workload and one can have leftover energy for side projects and hobbies. For the ones who have absolutely no taste to bureaucracy/red tape/stupid hierarchies of command, this could be soul sucking though
- hedora 6y agoIt doesn’t reduce cognitive workload for high performers. With my previous boss, I spent 90% of my intellectual effort managing up. Despite his best efforts, the project was delivered above spec and on time (saving his ass), but I burnt so many political bridges making it happen that I ended up moving teams.
- tartoran 6y agoMy point was exactly to take your high performance outside the organization you’re working for if they don’t offer the conditions necessary such as some autonomy and agency. It’s not worth proving anything, too few people would notice of care