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My current dream is to be "demoted" from senior SWE at a non-tech company to a mid level (or even junior! if possible) SWE at a mid to top tech company.
by decafninja 6y ago
My current dream is to be "demoted" from senior SWE at a non-tech company to a mid level (or even junior! if possible) SWE at a mid to top tech company.
- draw_down 6y agoI know what you mean. Junior isn't the cakewalk it sounds like though, there's an "up or out" requirement that you advance to terminal level or get fired. So eventually you'd end up back at senior. Plus a lot of places use former interns in those junior roles so those positions are ironically very hard to come by. But yes, I can identify with that. Being one level below senior for the rest of my career would be great if it were possible.
- QuercusMax 6y agoI got "demoted" from being a Director and Fellow at a small company to being a Senior SWE at Google, with a significant pay bump even after taking into account bay area prices. I kept telling my old boss that I didn't want to manage, and eventually got the Fellow title instead of Director. I felt like I was stagnating. Now I'm on my way to Senior Staff SWE, and I keep telling my managers that I don't want to manage, which so far has been working OK. I've got enough responsibilities at home (3 teenagers) and at work that I don't feel like I need additional "children" to manage. Maybe I'll feel differently once my kids are a little older, but right now I've got plenty on my plate without worrying about others' careers and the millions of additional meetings that managers have.