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As a junior engineer with 1 year of experience, I was really looking forward to my first job switch and salary increase. Starting to look like I missed the gol

by 3a2d29 4y ago

As a junior engineer with 1 year of experience, I was really looking forward to my first job switch and salary increase. Starting to look like I missed the golden job market between this and Meta/Twitter hiring freezes.

probIs8 4y ago
Yup; a VC I brunched with a couple weeks ago said cloud is dead and he’s looking for alternatives
- Ancalagon 4y ago
  How are Meta/Twitter/RH related to cloud?
  - samhw 4y ago
    That doesn't matter, what matters is that he brunched with a VC ;)
    - probIs8 4y ago
    - FerociousTimes 4y ago
      flex baby flex
  - angryasian 4y ago
    to VC everything is cloud
    - samhw 4y ago
      "hedge cloud by investing in solar!"
- anm89 4y ago
  Yeah, AWS, Azure, and GCP are all shutting down tomorrow. They just decided the cloud isn't that cool any more.
  - tru3_power 4y ago
    Dead I tell ya! Finally ran out of credits!
  - ttyp3 4y ago
    Poof!
  - karmasimida 4y ago
    I mean Azure/AWS/GCP doesn't need VC money though lol
  - probIs8 4y ago
    Right because VCs are shoveling money at AWS directly Their take was startups leveraging the cloud are dead to VCs except in certain niche situations The proles are always behind the trends Apple jumped into content creation after Alice neutered software patents. Copyright is Disney level bread and butter now There are few real markets for CRUD app startups which are just the same old shit with a marketing angle painted on top Docker pull that shit and run it local.
jeffnv 4y ago
It always feels that way when you're about to jump. Don't worry, from my perspective this is still the golden age.
- elforce002 4y ago
  It is. I've been approached by 3 companies (one of them is FAANG) last week and I don't live in Cali. Remote work is here to stay.
  - testbjjl 4y ago
    If you’re not local to the company and they are new to hiring in your area that’s not remote work here to stay, that’s fulfilling a need at a point in time. Why would the base their HQ in a tax heavy state like California, specifically the Bay Area and build multibillion dollar office buildings? Access to UC Berkeley and Stanford has historically been the answer. In a few years kids who grew up on zoom looking to go to the office and have the communal experience that escaped them. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and the bank always owns the land on either side of said fence. All the companies meeting their earnings are back (Msft, Tesla, Apple… curious to see what FB does, but I think Elon is going to want asses in seats so to speak). I can see the articles being written now.
karmasimida 4y ago
Think it from another angle.. The ones jump when the salary is the highest are now in more peculiar position than the others, if the company decided to trim itself down.
hooloovoo_zoo 4y ago
Meta is still sending me recruiter e-mails; which part is frozen?
- reducesuffering 4y ago
  0-4 years of experience. E3 / E4 for the rest of the year.
  - hooloovoo_zoo 4y ago
    Ah got it; hopefully I fall out of that range at this point. Thanks!
tru3_power 4y ago
Where did you see there was a meta freeze? I’m in the interview process right now and nothing was mentioned to me (Meta)
- np_tedious 4y ago
  E4 and lower is indeed in a hiring pause. The just kind of messed up the pacing an hired too many too quickly. E5+ and managers are unaffected
- stuxnet 4y ago
  From what I’ve heard, only E3 and E4 interviews have been affected by the freeze (so far).
anitil 4y ago
You career will be decades long, and you're in an industry that pays pretty well. Short term ups and downs are much less important than the general trajectory. Some people take years off to have kids, other (me) took 5+ years just being an idiot. All that to say, you'll be fine.
google234123 4y ago
Slightly presumptuous to just assume you can walk in and get an offer.
mk81 4y ago

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probIs8 4y ago

Yup; a VC I brunched with a couple weeks ago said cloud is dead and he’s looking for alternatives

Ancalagon 4y ago
How are Meta/Twitter/RH related to cloud?
- samhw 4y ago
  That doesn't matter, what matters is that he brunched with a VC ;)
  - probIs8 4y ago
  - FerociousTimes 4y ago
    flex baby flex
- angryasian 4y ago
  to VC everything is cloud
  - samhw 4y ago
    "hedge cloud by investing in solar!"
anm89 4y ago
Yeah, AWS, Azure, and GCP are all shutting down tomorrow. They just decided the cloud isn't that cool any more.
- tru3_power 4y ago
  Dead I tell ya! Finally ran out of credits!
- ttyp3 4y ago
  Poof!
- karmasimida 4y ago
  I mean Azure/AWS/GCP doesn't need VC money though lol
- probIs8 4y ago
  Right because VCs are shoveling money at AWS directly Their take was startups leveraging the cloud are dead to VCs except in certain niche situations The proles are always behind the trends Apple jumped into content creation after Alice neutered software patents. Copyright is Disney level bread and butter now There are few real markets for CRUD app startups which are just the same old shit with a marketing angle painted on top Docker pull that shit and run it local.

jeffnv 4y ago

It always feels that way when you're about to jump. Don't worry, from my perspective this is still the golden age.

elforce002 4y ago
It is. I've been approached by 3 companies (one of them is FAANG) last week and I don't live in Cali. Remote work is here to stay.
- testbjjl 4y ago
  If you’re not local to the company and they are new to hiring in your area that’s not remote work here to stay, that’s fulfilling a need at a point in time. Why would the base their HQ in a tax heavy state like California, specifically the Bay Area and build multibillion dollar office buildings? Access to UC Berkeley and Stanford has historically been the answer. In a few years kids who grew up on zoom looking to go to the office and have the communal experience that escaped them. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and the bank always owns the land on either side of said fence. All the companies meeting their earnings are back (Msft, Tesla, Apple… curious to see what FB does, but I think Elon is going to want asses in seats so to speak). I can see the articles being written now.

karmasimida 4y ago

Think it from another angle.. The ones jump when the salary is the highest are now in more peculiar position than the others, if the company decided to trim itself down.

hooloovoo_zoo 4y ago

Meta is still sending me recruiter e-mails; which part is frozen?

reducesuffering 4y ago
0-4 years of experience. E3 / E4 for the rest of the year.
- hooloovoo_zoo 4y ago
  Ah got it; hopefully I fall out of that range at this point. Thanks!

tru3_power 4y ago

Where did you see there was a meta freeze? I’m in the interview process right now and nothing was mentioned to me (Meta)

np_tedious 4y ago
E4 and lower is indeed in a hiring pause. The just kind of messed up the pacing an hired too many too quickly. E5+ and managers are unaffected
stuxnet 4y ago
From what I’ve heard, only E3 and E4 interviews have been affected by the freeze (so far).

anitil 4y ago

You career will be decades long, and you're in an industry that pays pretty well. Short term ups and downs are much less important than the general trajectory. Some people take years off to have kids, other (me) took 5+ years just being an idiot. All that to say, you'll be fine.

google234123 4y ago

Slightly presumptuous to just assume you can walk in and get an offer.

mk81 4y ago