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For much of the past century, the best career advice in the world was: go to IBM, General Motors, General Electric. Climb the ladder for a few decades, get a pe
by sgustard 5y ago
For much of the past century, the best career advice in the world was: go to IBM, General Motors, General Electric. Climb the ladder for a few decades, get a pension, retire at the top 1% of the income pyramid. That worked great until it didn't, and millions of people got left with no savings or useful job skills.
Today's world offers so many more paths for talented builders, beyond joining the currently hot company as a cog in the giant ad-tech machine and hoping for the best. As a data point, go read last week's article on how Sidekiq has made $13 million for a solo developer.
- bin_bash 5y agoI’ve published 2 books, created a significant open source project, and was staff engineer at a Fortune 50 company. Was reasonably well known as a blogger and speaker in the JS community too. (I’ve given up on OSS since FAANG) But you know how I’ll be introduced? They’ll say I was “ex-FAANG”. None of that other stuff matters in comparison. I’m not at all saying it’s the only path, I’m saying it’s the best and certainly most reliable one.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI'm not sure. I suspect the gloss of working at a FAANG is starting to look a bit tarnished. Just because they employee so many people now.