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The money alone is good enough. I can probably just retire with all those money and stocks. Let alone tons of techs and a shiny CV. Kudos for starting from a height most people can't reach for life. I guess you are going to start another company eventually?
9 years is a long time just for money tho. Too much money focused on that attitude
All these things make me envious of people who get to work at Google or any other FAANG company, where they are both paid well and validated for their intelligence.
These are great benefits for sure, but one of the reasons I left is a totally ineffective and wasteful management structure that makes it extremely hard to actually do anything. It is very hard to feel like your work means anything at a company of that size, since the chances of having the goals of your work changed (or being laid off) at a moments notice makes it hard to stay motivated. If I take another software gi…
Light on details and mostly seems to revolve around money.
When I worked at Google I immediately sold my stock and diversified. In hindsight that "cost" me at least $2MM. At a subsequent employer I held the stock, determined not to make the same mistake again. That "cost" me nearly $100k before I realized that the new employer's stock was not going to do what GOOG did. Anyway, congratulations to those Googlers who "picked" GOOG by not selling their GSUs and who made out like…
The last 15 years were good in tech but the earlier Google employees did even better.
I'm guessing neither of us made money on bitcoin or gamestop... I don't lose sleep over that.
I've done the path from SWE to SRE and back to SWE. I was always happy to do production support and diagnose and fix production problems, so I naturally moved to SRE which is always looking for people. It was a real mistake, SRE is hugely stressful and really unrewarding compared to SWE. Yes you learn some skills and get some occasional glory, but year after year of fighting fires really didn't build any long lasting…
Thanks for recognizing what SRE/SysAdmins have to deal with all the time. I think in general that type of experience would help Developers be more empathetic to the operations side of things. Those fires often come from trade-offs made in development.
I think it made me a better developer because I've seen a lot of what can go wrong. Probably reduces my productivity but ultimate my stuff is more likely to work.
All these things make me envious of people who get to work at Google or any other FAANG company, where they are both paid well and validated for their intelligence.
but the work that Googlers do most of HN can do its the proximity, pedigree, profile that you have to fit to get in to Google I'm happy for those that made it. Not everybody gets to work for Google. But the work they do are no less challenging or more important than what the rest of us do. If anything FAANG has contributed greatly to the American Firewall of Algorithms and have destroyed an entire generation's abilit…
Since this post is about SRE… Slight OT: what do people recommended for simple server & db monitoring (for a small saas business)? monit, nagios, victoria metrics, etc?
I've done the path from SWE to SRE and back to SWE. I was always happy to do production support and diagnose and fix production problems, so I naturally moved to SRE which is always looking for people. It was a real mistake, SRE is hugely stressful and really unrewarding compared to SWE. Yes you learn some skills and get some occasional glory, but year after year of fighting fires really didn't build any long lasting…
All these things make me envious of people who get to work at Google or any other FAANG company, where they are both paid well and validated for their intelligence.