Interesting. I've been debating this personally lately. I work where I can pull 180k-220k pure salary with a very high degree of job security and low effort, an

Interesting. I've been debating this personally lately. I work where I can pull 180k-220k pure salary with a very high degree of job security and low effort, and I've been toying with whether or not it'd be better to switch to big tech and try to make more for a few years at the expense of WLB. Weirdly enough, I'm kind of on the other end though, just hit 30, 7 YOE, and not strong technically because background isn't CS. So I kind of don't know if I should just coast, or leetcode grind and try to go for 300-400k... I just hear horror stories of PIPs and up-and-out and it doesn't sound like fun...