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This assumes the company knows how to value your work. I started my career in operations working at companies that pioneered working in public clouds. What this
by lumost 4y ago
This assumes the company knows how to value your work. I started my career in operations working at companies that pioneered working in public clouds. What this meant was long weeks, missed sleep, and thankless work. I saved the companies millions per year through improved resource allocation, high uptime, and fast deployment cycles.
Invariably, company management viewed the above as an expense to incur only as long as infra was percieved as a problem. In my third year of experience I had a banger of a year at a startup and could rightfully claim 3 million per year in savings. In uncertain terms it was implied to me that I wasn’t expected to stick around for the second year but I was given a 2% raise out of kindness :shrug:
Management generally views themselves as valuable, and finds people like themselves as valuable. I got wise to this and transitioned fields.
- germinalphrase 4y agoInto management or into a field with less management?
- lumost 4y agoAn adjacent field that was higher value. I’ve made a bit of a career transitioning fields and now work on a mix of ml and database internals at a large tech company.
- ianai 4y agoExactly my experience in ops as well across very different industries. Ops feels like a stain on my career at times, bizarrely. The past was no picnic, but I know there was better respect towards the workers in decades gone by. I remember a “how to get rich” book from back then talking about not hiring or contracting the absolute cheapest bid, believe it or not. It preached making sure your side of the deal didn’t come at an unfair cost to another side. Believe it or not. The long timers in LV who had worked in both the mob days and corporate america/modern had a strong preference for working for the mob. That should tell it all.
- Terretta 4y agokey word "evidently" ... you have to ensure it's evident to the evaluators, or find different evaluators .. maybe even make yourself the evaluator by starting your own thing // I didn't say this was easy. I said it was how.