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> Now I’ve got nothing to show of my life of work, while other people who just picked a better company to work at 20 years ago and never left have been growing
by ro_bit 2y ago
> Now I’ve got nothing to show of my life of work, while other people who just picked a better company to work at 20 years ago and never left have been growing their wealth by a couple million dollars per year every year for almost their entire career, all working as just some rando middle manager at multi-trillion-dollar companies.
The authors repeated insistence on incredibly inflated salary numbers makes me question if I'm on the outside of some inside joke
- xenospn 2y agoI don’t know, my former colleague joined Amazon back in 2014, just as I quit to start my own company. He became a solutions architect and got promoted multiple times and now makes close to $1 million a year, he’s not very technical and I’m not even sure what he does. But I’m sure it’s mostly bureaucratic.
- robotnikman 2y agoIt all comes down to hard work and luck, being at the right place at the right time. And you can't have one without the other
- titanomachy 2y ago"Middle manager" means you're managing managers (i.e. director/vp). Those people do often make $1M+ at FAANG. But he is certainly still exaggerating, as most people with 20 years experience didn't spend "almost their entire careers" making $1M+.
- dalyons 2y agoFor his direct peers (very senior), in one particular historical period (~2010-2021), for one particular small set of fangs… they would have, on average be at least 1mm, probably 2 or 3. Due to stock price appreciation. You had to have been very lucky globally speaking, but locally to SV over that time not so rare. So I can understand and appreciate the jealousy, but I wouldn’t expect that set of circumstances to repeat.
- zifpanachr23 2y agoYou aren't on the outside of a joke you just don't live in the same bubble they live in.