So you've achieved a goal of yours, are getting excellent pay, and gotten a FAANG on your resume. Don't kill yourself now working nights and weekends. But do t

So you've achieved a goal of yours, are getting excellent pay, and gotten a FAANG on your resume. Don't kill yourself now working nights and weekends. But do take the time to evaluate what is important to you. You can probably get hired most places you'd care to work now, so...where is that? What makes a place ideal for you? What would you be willing to give up to make that happen? I think cooling your heels there for a while is a given; that might be coasting, sure, but it also might be determining specific small areas within the company to pour yourself into to try and improve. After you've been there a bit, see if things have improved, as you've gotten more context. If not, you're in a better position to move on; you've now got the FAANG on your resume, any recruiters you talk to will know not to lowball you, and you'll have spent time thinking about what actually makes you happy in a workplace and can look to seek it out. But I will say, having worked in 5-6 companies now over a 12 year career, no place will have everything you want, and no place will stay the same. Figure out what is most important to you. It might be compensation and stability; it might be interesting problems, it might be something else. If it's either of those two, though, you may want to look outside of your main place of employ to figure out how to meet the other need; job for compensation, personal work for interesting problems, for instance. Or get permission for some moonlighting and take some contract work from some old contacts maybe.