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This is something I find so disturbing, and I experience similar. I feel extremely little of what I'm doing in my real, actual, job, helps me in advancing in m
by decafninja 6y ago
This is something I find so disturbing, and I experience similar.
I feel extremely little of what I'm doing in my real, actual, job, helps me in advancing in my career. Unless maybe if I choose to stay at my current company until retirement lol.
Otherwise, why bother doing anything more than the bare minimum to get by at work? It would be a far better investment of time and effort to grind leetcode and practice for interviews, instead of going above and beyond to excel at my job. At least until I get into an "endgame company" where I feel it's worth staying long term.
- u67583 6y agoIf you want a good career, working on your interviewing skills is the most important thing. Networking and resume fluff are close seconds. Job skill is almost irrelevant. It's an ugly truth.
- hawk_ 6y agosad but true. hope as an industry we can find a better way.
- ipnon 6y agoI think the answer is we need more innovation. We need a million small startups instead of a dozen tech giants. Software scales but starting up is a moonshot.
- altoidaltoid 6y agoMy personal career epiphany was moving from a tech giant to a late-stage, pre-IPO startup. The amount of freedom and range of challenges I dealt with were exhilarating. Did it pay as much? Not in the beginning, but I was given the room to grow.
- ipnon 6y agoWhat is wrong with the tech industry? What are we doing all of this for?