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Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by za3faran »

yodsanklai wrote: post #38
ohgodplsno wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For many devs, especially non SV people (or even non US people), a TC of 250k+ is more than life changing. It's "I never could have ever gotten this, and not only is my life set, the people around me are too". Needless to say, if I was offered these compensations (or higher), I'll gladly take even 10 years of incompetence around me to then be able to do fuck all for the rest of my life (or, well, things I actually en…

> a TC of 250k+ is more than life changing. It doesn't get you that far. Consider tax and cost of life in NYC/SF/London where you won't be able to buy a house anyway, and you're left with 50k to save a year. In other places, you're less likely to get such a TC. Sure, it's a lot of money, but not enough to change your social status. It adds up if you manage to stay long enough there, but considering ageism and burning…

How much do you think doctors make? Unless they specialize and spend another 5+ years pursuing it, they're in the 100K-250K range anyway depending on location.

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by DethNinja »

I worked for large companies all my life and all of them are actually like this.

I wonder how one can find companies with no office politics, and one that rewards real engineering work. Do any of the FAANGs actually qualify for this?

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by glomgril »

DethNinja wrote: post #42

I worked for large companies all my life and all of them are actually like this. I wonder how one can find companies with no office politics, and one that rewards real engineering work. Do any of the FAANGs actually qualify for this?

let me know if you find out

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by ativzzz »

davewritescode wrote: post #25
aantix wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're working for someone else's dream, what else is there? "TC" gives me and my family options to do other big things in the world. Yes, I want to take two big family vacations a year, live in a great neighborhood/ school district, and give my kids extra opportunities. Optimizing for "TC" makes sense.

This is nihilistic and short sighted way to see the world. Being highly visible inside and outside my company has opened up more opportunity long term in terms of being offered consulting roles and opportunities in early stage startups then being a worker bee at Amazon for 2 years until you burnout. I know many people who have taken that route and it's one of many paths. If you're a good engineer and can sell your wo…

The reality is most of us do not have the skills, talent, drive or whichever other attributes needed to identify the next big thing or meaningfully contribute.

> If you're a good engineer and can sell your work, contribute visibly to open source projects in your area of expertise and can present at conferences

You are describing the top 1-5% of engineers here. Yes if you are in the top, you can literally do anything you want. For the rest of us who are writing software to make a living, we might as well maximize the money we earn as easily as we can

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by trasz »

aantix wrote: post #13
randshift wrote: post #3

Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.

If you're working for someone else's dream, what else is there? "TC" gives me and my family options to do other big things in the world. Yes, I want to take two big family vacations a year, live in a great neighborhood/ school district, and give my kids extra opportunities. Optimizing for "TC" makes sense.

If you have no problem knowingly wasting 30% of your life making useless shit in exchange for money then… well, enjoy, I’m not judging, but please realize many people don’t feel this way.

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by cm42 »

trenning wrote: post #14

This is the SDE equivalent of an Amazon warehouse worker.

The Real Tragedy Nobody Wants To Talk About was the unfortunate decision to buy a flavored soda water machine to cut down on plastic water bottle waste.

Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by [deleted] »

uoaei wrote: post #39
davewritescode wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is nihilistic and short sighted way to see the world. Being highly visible inside and outside my company has opened up more opportunity long term in terms of being offered consulting roles and opportunities in early stage startups then being a worker bee at Amazon for 2 years until you burnout. I know many people who have taken that route and it's one of many paths. If you're a good engineer and can sell your wo…

My concern is also the social dynamics that "TC or bust" people engender around them. There is an obvious mentality that goes along with that approach, and more often than not this turns what should be a collective, holistic approach to social well-being into a quasi-zero-sum game where everyone is just trying to extract value from everyone else. It is deleterious to community per se . Islands of nuclear families doe…

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Re: How to succeed at Meta

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Post by feifan »

DethNinja wrote: post #42

I worked for large companies all my life and all of them are actually like this. I wonder how one can find companies with no office politics, and one that rewards real engineering work. Do any of the FAANGs actually qualify for this?

You'd probably want to look for small companies making something that impresses you (which may or may not be public). Hopefully they stay small for a while and preserve that culture.
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