> At first I felt guilty and then I realized in my career that working harder isn't going to make any difference in terms of $, career security, or opportunity

> At first I felt guilty and then I realized in my career that working harder isn't going to make any difference in terms of $, career security, or opportunity to work on cooler stuff. At least in FAANG, you mostly get paid for what your employer thinks you can do, in theory. Not for what you actually do, in practice. If you're only self-interested - you're much better off spending all your time learning valuable skills and checking boxes to get promoted, and then job hopping - and doing nothing valuable for your employer again and again... You're not going to move up if you spend all your burning through your backlog of work items, and you'll get next-to-no monetary reward or meaningful recognition.