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Perhaps the key piece of career growth advice is to join Facebook as a new graduate when it was a 700 person company.
by testfoobar 3y ago
Perhaps the key piece of career growth advice is to join Facebook as a new graduate when it was a 700 person company.
- quickthrower2 3y agoAnd be innately good at both code and human relations. I couldn’t have handled that massive team size increase mentioned even if I was in that position. I would have probably quit to go back to technical stuff!
- kaashif 3y agoAlso, having managed people, I don't really like it and derive much more joy and satisfaction from being an IC working on technical stuff primarily. Definitely "career limiting" but I just like it more.
- quickthrower2 3y agoYes. Although making IC tracks is great and all, the power to get big things done involves organizing and leading people, so the natural state will be that a leadership career will go higher than a technical career on average. And balancing that is putting a hand on the scale (takes continuing effort) and indeed is a political or strategic decision, so it is up to the leaders to implement! That said in 2023 you can go a long way into upper middle class and rich without needing to lead people, or kill them in wars, and still do creative and non-repetitive work. So we are very lucky to live in this era!