twojobsoneboss

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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
TBF there are orgs at companies whose sole role is to play DEFENSE - lawyers, CSO etc… if they deem something too risky it IS their job to block it, and then it’s up to upper management to override them if the situation calls for it. Now th
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Tech salaries have ALREADY fallen and tech workers have already been largely treated as cogs. Yes it could get even worse but I get why they’re taking their chances
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
His moat is his price. And it absolutely is a moat because most bigger competitors would not bother competing in the segment with even lower prices, as there’d be no upside
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Correction: These _investors_ have too much money Actually it’s a step further: these _LPs_ have too much money
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Like, cause of tiredness, or not being able to focus, or sheer boredom? Which one, or something else?
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Put more charitably, there are always problems facing society
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Well yeah that’s what I said… my main point was that unless you job hop into a faang, you’re quickly at the ceiling And once you’re in a faang, there’s no higher to go
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Good employers exist. It’s crazy the number of people who get burned a couple of times and declare the industry is sheet and they have to do their own thing or their life is doomed
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Isn’t there a very real cap of say 200-225k for senior level regardless of where you go tho? After that would be faang which itself is the endgame except (in some cases) jumping between faangs could get you more
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Crazy, that’s approaching OpenAI pay… is it in the AI area?
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Only the megacap ones. For the other smaller but still public companies you need to be staff+ to hit that, and even then no guarantees
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Damn that last sentence is depressing. What keeps you going?
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
How many of them are both geographically close enough and discoverable enough tho?
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Uh oh!
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Honestly thought it would be worse
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
There are plenty of big tech or big tech adjacent public traded company jobs paying far better that are still majority coding and with a lot less speed pressure than an early stage startup, among other things allowi Ng for an earlier retire
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Happy for you that you have a decently monetizable passion!
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
I think if most disgruntled devs put honest thought into it like you did, they would reach the same conclusion, I certainly did, esp with a family. I have also started to try getting more aggressive with investments
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Bingo if you can get a decent package and their stock continues to do well, that is life changing money
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
RTO has been instituted and there not much you can do to prepare for a whole career change when in the office… And esp for those with families they might be dependent on big tech comp to support their family in high CoL areas, else have to
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Be real, it’s google. They could layoff 10k every month for another year and still have people lining up from around the world to get in
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
In this tech job environment the US google employee is willing to do as many 11:30 nights as needed to keep his high paying tech job, and management knows it
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
I mean, it’s way easier to buy GOOG than get hired there, just sayin…
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
There’s still arbitrage to be had - gains are often in percentage terms so when you downsize or move to a cheaper area you pocket the difference. You could also own more than one property, do sweat equity to increase value etc. I could go o
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Ah I see
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Were they lowballing or are those salaries just the new market rate?
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
“If everybody sees it coming, it’s not coming.”
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Nah, even among married couples it’s still way down. Costs and incentives are just way misaligned right now
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
Those “robber barons” are also the source of most tech jobs and how most of us here earn a living
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by twojobsoneboss 2y ago
It’s a business. It will by default do the easiest and least riskiest thing to make as much money as possible.

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