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> That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role. You meant to say when you interview for the wrong companies? Google’s (and other
by yrgulation 4y ago
> That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.
You meant to say when you interview for the wrong companies?
Google’s (and other leetcode nurseries) been steadily regressing. Not sure you want to be a part of it. Only idiots build sorting algos in 2022 let alone ask highschool questions about them. Keep hunting and grab some popcorn - it will be fun to watch.
- Buttons840 4y ago> Only [well-paid] idiots Working at Google may be going down with the ship, but at least in the end you get to sail away on your golden life boat.
- yrgulation 4y agoNothing wrong in playing the game. But believe me there’s better pay out there.
- Retric 4y agoYou’re selling your life, focusing on chasing ever more money is a poor trade IMO. Not saying you have to join a non profit, just consider what you want to work on, who you want to work with, and the kind of hours you want to put in.
- yrgulation 4y agoYeah sure i should chase making a boss happy instead “for stuff that matters”. No thanks. I’ll work my butt off instead for the right people and pay. It’s a win win situation.
- Retric 4y agoWorking your butt off is one option, working significantly less than full time is another. However, if you only focus on pay you drastically diminish your search space. No SV company is actually pushing the bounds of AGI research for example.
- jackblemming 4y agoIt always amuses me seeing programmers chasing as much money as possible when they make a fraction of executives or many other professions. Even if they're at the "elite grand master SRE" level. Still a fraction of some MBA.
- yrgulation 4y agothats why i keep telling people that software “engineering” or computer “science” are not worth pursuing. unless you use either as a launchpad. these types of jobs are just fancy bricklaying. however there is nuance to everything. some people find 200k a year and living with flatmates in an expensive city rewarding. to each their own. i know i did. until it hit me.
- kortilla 4y agoBricklaying? Google had a great WLB and l5s were clearing 500-700k TC and l6 was bumping up against a mil a year when I left more than 5 years ago. That’s early retirement and you don’t have to make a single sales call or ever manage people.
- ipaddr 4y agoHow many positions like that are available at google? Under a 1,000 and the industry employs millions. Not sure this is a strategy for everyone.
- peteradio 4y agoThen what is worth pursuing? Entrepreneurship? I can't even spell the word correctly without a spellchecker.
- anchochilis 4y agoAll work is fancy bricklaying if you're jaded enough. Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you have an off day and place a brick upside down. Professional football player? It's repetitive manual labor! Often performed outdoors in inclement weather. High likelihood of involuntary retirement due to workplace injury. Executive? Staring at endless spreadsheets all day... With rows and rows of those brick-like rectangular cells... All fun aside, I don't think many bricklayers could find it within themselves to complain about making 200k a year to work in jeans and a hoodie in an air-conditioned building with foosball tables and free snacks.
- perfopt 4y agoAs long as you dont get carried away and spend it all