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> My salary also hasn't increased much, and feel like I'm severely underpaid based on the # of years of experience but I struggle with evaluating my value in th

> My salary also hasn't increased much, and feel like I'm severely underpaid based on the # of years of experience but I struggle with evaluating my value in the market to determine my worth Sure sounds like it. I've run 100+ interviews at a FAANG, nearly all levels and IC roles - email me if you'd like to chat about roles/responsibilities/comp (we can keep it anonymous and high-level). There are also professional services like triplebyte and interviewing sites like interviewing.io to help get an objective assessment of your value. > I've put in countless hours of work every day (70-90 hrs), being on-call almost 24/7, sometimes for straight 7 days for months despite only getting paid on a salary basis on 40 hr work weeks; being a loner helps with working long hours. If you're working this hard, you are carrying the team. You know stuff no one else knows. You have the power to say no. Stop working so hard. Set a fixed 40hr schedule then stick to it. If your boss wants more, that's their problem.

_carbyau_ 4y ago
Constant overtime is a clear failure of management. You are a cog in the system. The next level up in the system plays with the cogs they have influence over, including you. If you are ever working beyond your contract, then your boss has failed their job. It may be that your immediate boss has been put into an impossible position by the next level up (and so on) but that is NOT your issue, it is theirs. As a human being, you might be inclined to forgive another humans failure. I know I do. And this is good for society in limited amounts as no human is perfect. However at the point of constant overtime of even 1 minute - every week for months on end - it is clearly abuse. Get out now.
- heleninboodler 4y ago
  Also, if you're on call 24/7 and getting burnt out, you need an effective way of shedding this load. And it just so happens that one of the effective ways of shedding this load is a real ass-kicker move: come up with a plan to improve your ops and make it so anyone can be on call, not just you. This probably means improvements to monitoring (clear signals that don't constantly false-positive and require the expert -- aka you -- to diagnose), improvements to reliability, and improvements to ops documentation (clear docs that say when this alarm goes off, here's what you do). Sharing the knowledge that's in your head so you can stop being a hero is a next-level maneuver, and as a bonus, it gets you some peace.

_carbyau_ 4y ago

Constant overtime is a clear failure of management. You are a cog in the system. The next level up in the system plays with the cogs they have influence over, including you. If you are ever working beyond your contract, then your boss has failed their job. It may be that your immediate boss has been put into an impossible position by the next level up (and so on) but that is NOT your issue, it is theirs. As a human being, you might be inclined to forgive another humans failure. I know I do. And this is good for society in limited amounts as no human is perfect. However at the point of constant overtime of even 1 minute - every week for months on end - it is clearly abuse. Get out now.

heleninboodler 4y ago
Also, if you're on call 24/7 and getting burnt out, you need an effective way of shedding this load. And it just so happens that one of the effective ways of shedding this load is a real ass-kicker move: come up with a plan to improve your ops and make it so anyone can be on call, not just you. This probably means improvements to monitoring (clear signals that don't constantly false-positive and require the expert -- aka you -- to diagnose), improvements to reliability, and improvements to ops documentation (clear docs that say when this alarm goes off, here's what you do). Sharing the knowledge that's in your head so you can stop being a hero is a next-level maneuver, and as a bonus, it gets you some peace.