And if not, what’s your plan? I’m currently at a FAANG, and been in tech for almost two decades, and I’ve never felt such a huge loss of camaraderie and safety.
Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
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#2I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “psychologically safe”. Could you elaborate please?
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#3I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “psychologically safe”. Could you elaborate please?
Like do you feel job security? Do you think that doing a good job is enough? Can you do your job without feeling like you’re going to get fired all the time? Do you trust your boss and coworkers and feel safe being open with your leadership chain?
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#4I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “psychologically safe”. Could you elaborate please?
"Physchological safety" is a buzz word common in MBA circles. There are many articles written about it, shared on HN even.
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#5I can guess which FAANG you're at. "psychological safety" has been floating around the office recently.
I mostly feel secure because (a) my ratings have been good, and more importantly (b) I don't think my team is going to get axed because we maintain a pretty core feature.
I think if you're in the bottom 6-8% or whatever they set the low ratings at, you're in danger. And if you're on a team that doesn't generate money/keep users on the app longer, you're in danger.
Neither of those apply to me, so I feel only very mild danger. Also, I just got my green card, so at least I won't get booted out of the country if they fire me now.
Downside is that there isn't much promo opportunity on my team either. If I want to be promoted based on technical ability instead of leadership/management (which I very much don't want, I'd have to switch to a more algorithm-heavy team but then (b) above might apply, and also I like my current team.
No camaraderie though. People don't properly communicate in general. A crapton of meetings, but no one goes out of their way to actually help eachother.
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#6Yes but my manager makes it an absolute top priority. It takes a lot of work and other managers who were basically OK but balancing priorities ultimately let that safety get off the rails.
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#7Job security does not exist, regardless of how well someone performs one’s job. Big Tech has had a good run. Those in the other sectors learned long ago that there isn’t any job security.
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#8Anyone that's been in tech at the FAANG tier for two decades and doesn't have at least one to two years of runway not including retirement accounts is observably terrible at managing money.
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#9I can guess which FAANG you're at. "psychological safety" has been floating around the office recently. I mostly feel secure because (a) my ratings have been good, and more importantly (b) I don't think my team is going to get axed because we maintain a pretty core feature. I think if you're in the bottom 6-8% or whatever they set the low ratings at, you're in danger. And if you're on a team that doesn't generate mon…
Where is that paren supposed to close?
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
#10I am an American, so of course not.