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zhach

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    Comment #46381773

    Author here. I did! :) But I was really about to quit with a job lined up. I gave myself to the end of 2025 to get a new job. I had savings enough to hold me off, but it was one of…

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    Comment #46381741

    Author here. I debated this, but the state of Google and YouTube together and certain things internally led me to just look for external opportunities. Probably would've been less …

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    Comment #46381731

    Author here. I do agree to an extent. But getting datpoints from the other people in the company at those higher positions is important. Asking what can you do to improve and what …

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    Comment #46381690

    Author here. I'm touched by whoever posted this here. I hope people can read this and feel empowered to value themselves and try to make the impact they feel like they can. Happy h…

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    Comment #46381673

    Author here. They do, even most recruiters require this before submitting for some of these jobs. Most hiring managers also filter that out by behavioral interviews and seeing how …

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    Comment #46381648

    Author here. Very good point. I am in a lucky position for retrospective, but I was also very much in the mood of "I'll take what i can get" lol

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    Comment #46381639

    Author here. I do want to mention that I don't exactly know the situation my manager was in, but he definitely did not make me feel dispensible personally. He and I had long conver…

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    Comment #46381624

    Author here. You're telling me! :)

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    Comment #46381621

    Author here. At the new job and yes, context switching has helped me a lot! Lol

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    Comment #46381614

    Author here. I worked at internships and smaller contracts in HS and college. But I've been coding since the start of highschool with coding competitions and jobs that helped my ne…

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    Comment #46381576

    Author here. I do feel incredibly luck in my position. This is a very specific perspective that I have, and I'm sorry that I may have seemed too entitled in this post. My whole goa…

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    Comment #46381457

    Author here. I like statement. I think the biggest thing here is "not meeting this mark isn't a value statement" I had a lote of doubt about my own ability because I never got prom…

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    Comment #46381431

    Author here. My manager and I discussed lengths about the capabilities they do, and it is just like this. It's not his fault at all. It's a game at the end of the day, and it's you…

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    Comment #46381414

    Very much so. Author here. I wanted to do so much more than the box they allocated me in. Once I knew they were not going to let me grow from my box, then I left. Not the level I w…