Well, I’m 51. I’ve had 10 jobs in my career including one at BigTech. I never grinded leetCode or even had a serious coding interview [1]. But from my time at BigTech I know interns I mentored and who got return offers were making more straight out of college than I made at 45 working as an enterprise “senior” developer in the burbs of Atlanta before I got into BigTech.
I was perfectly happy making $150K living in a 3200 square foot house I had built in the “good school system” in 2016 for $335K.
> I’m saying maybe you don’t have to join them. Get out of the mindset. Find jobs that value your time
Companies “value your time” by paying you to exchange labor for money. All other things being equal, I would rather trade my time for more money than less.
I have made the trade off in the last couple of years now that I’m out of BigTech to value working remotely and stress free over BigTech compensation. But let’s not blindly pretend that you aren’t making the trade off by refusing to post the game.
[1] A remote interview opportunity/job fell into my lap working at AWS Professional Services. My speciality was cloud + app dev. But the interview process was all behavioral. I’m not suggesting trying this route.
I was perfectly happy making $150K living in a 3200 square foot house I had built in the “good school system” in 2016 for $335K.
> I’m saying maybe you don’t have to join them. Get out of the mindset. Find jobs that value your time
Companies “value your time” by paying you to exchange labor for money. All other things being equal, I would rather trade my time for more money than less.
I have made the trade off in the last couple of years now that I’m out of BigTech to value working remotely and stress free over BigTech compensation. But let’s not blindly pretend that you aren’t making the trade off by refusing to post the game.
[1] A remote interview opportunity/job fell into my lap working at AWS Professional Services. My speciality was cloud + app dev. But the interview process was all behavioral. I’m not suggesting trying this route.