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This thread is seriously in need of some tough love. @faang0722, you're being a slacker, and not doing right by either your company or yourself. You're at one of the top companies in the world, and are safe from the jobs disaster that's gripping the entire country. Millions of people are desperate to receive $600-1600 from the government this month because they are unable to work. Millions are putting on shitty facem…
First, step up your game. If you are the best on the team without even trying, and doing so little work, then you don't understand why they hired you.
Specifically, you are acting like an individual, when you should be leading the team (leading, not managing).
What you should be doing is taking your team to the next level.
Working to make them better developers.
Working to make the team more efficient.
Working to make the codebase better (as opposed to just improving the app).
Working to improve the toolchain.
Working to make the development pace faster without ruining quality.
Etc.
Many more things, but I'll keep it to that list - I think you get the gist of my comment.
Small changes at huge scale have huge impacts. Think of car designers who work hard to eek out 1 more MPG from a car (and them multiply that by a million cars).
Discipline and many small deliberate actions got us to the moon - it can get you where you should be.
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In the U.S., it's much more likely that the custodians/janitors are getting underpaid.
If they were underpaid, they’d go work somewhere else they are not. There is a near unlimited supply of mop-pushers in the world.
Why are you leaving instead of improving the team's throughput and work environment?
What makes you think you won't encounter the same issues elsewhere?
I remember talking to a senior person at FB (wears a suit on friday). I asked "how is hiring?". Their response: terrible. People like this OP game systems, know how to test, understands what the boss wants, know ahead of time the questions they will be asked, etc. They have gamed the entire system. So! They tend to get through the interview with ease. The problem is... now what. What is the next thing they need to ga…
Every company wants to automate or streamline the hiring process to get warm bodies in chairs in front of computers.
What about culture and vision? What type of people do you really want working for you? A cog?
This thread is seriously in need of some tough love. @faang0722, you're being a slacker, and not doing right by either your company or yourself. You're at one of the top companies in the world, and are safe from the jobs disaster that's gripping the entire country. Millions of people are desperate to receive $600-1600 from the government this month because they are unable to work. Millions are putting on shitty facem…
AKA, please work harder for your corporate masters because poor people are suffering. What's that? You want your corporate masters to pay a fair share of tax so poor will suffer less? No, just work harder and that extra work won't benefit people who need it.
He is being compensated (I infer) very well for a safe and comfortable job, except he doesn't like the tooling and he's realized that people trust him and he doesn't need to be honest to collect his paycheck.
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>So at least what I did is stop trying to put so much of an expectation on my job to fulfill me. I took responsibility to find and do things at and especially outside of my day job that did fulfill me. I'm not debating you but I just want to point out that your advice depends on the personality. It may even work for most workers but for some us, we cannot mentally "compartmentalize" the day job as the isolated 9-to-5…
> It may even work for most workers but for some us, we cannot mentally "compartmentalize" the day job as the isolated 9-to-5 soul-sucking slog and then use the weekend activities to make up for it. Remember that the absolute majority of humanity are working soul-sucking slog jobs to get a salary to be able to afford a home and food and some nice things. We who work in tech are extremely fortunate to be able to find…
I was in a job exactly like this last year, and I quit. I regret it. I miss the money and it was good for my resume.
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Are you telling me that if you had the financial freedom to work on any project you wanted, you’d choose what you’re doing right now?
I enjoy doing what I do. I think it's possible to combine financial success with personal satisfaction. In fact I believe the greatest financial successes are the ones that are most intimately tied to their creator's personal satisfaction, enjoyment and alignment with what they do
That's supremely rare, mon ami. "Do what you love and you'll never work a day" doesn't apply to like 90% of the workforce. And even when you do cool stuff, there is often no shortage of BS to go with it.
You are very lucky to love your gig and be well compensated for it; most people are not well compensated and live lives full of endless drudgery.
General observation: the large the company, the slower it is to make changes because of a larger codebase, legacy concerns, more complex interactions with the rest of the system, handling scale, and more stakeholders.