Signs that it's time to leave a company
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Signs that it's time to leave a company
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Re: Signs that it's time to leave a company
#2Two years and six months.
If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever.
Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot.
Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and three to properly resign on pleasant terms or negotiate an upgrade.
Two years, is an substantial amount sum of time to work for a company and the bare minimum you should work in any company in my honest opinion.
Jumping ship will always bring more money. The truth is that businesses don't care much about you as much as they like you to believe. In that your forgotten in seconds flat and were only hired for your talent.
So why give it to them if they're not going to return the favour?
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#3Two years and six months. If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever. Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot. Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and thr…
Two years for a company that isn't horrendous to work for. If it is clearly not working out - a no brainer - then just leave. Might be on day 1!
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#4Other signs for me personally:
* Sales schedules dictate product development timelines rather than the other way around
* Leadership thinks about practical operational/logistics issues only when forced to
* The importance of "culture" is brought up without fail when talking about working from the office, and never at other times
* Leadership is fond of setting goals and deathly allergic to providing incentives
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#5Always have an engaging side project or non-work interest (a family even!). A slow-growth company is torture if you have to give it 100% of your attention. But in some cases you can turn corporate disfunction into a means to fund your own interests.
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#6Two years and six months. If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever. Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot. Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and thr…
Waiting for "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish
The problem there is the 'waiting' bit. If you expect other people to see your impact and reward it you won't get it. You need to advocate for yourself. Make sure you're talking directly to stakeholders and leaders in your org. Post about things you've worked on in company channels. Update everyone when you hit goals and milestones. Celebrate your wins.
If nothing else this makes work more fun.
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#7Small company, in my first week the owner sent an all-hands email that chewed out some of the staff.
I left by the end of the week.
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#8More discussion previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38827801
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#9Two years and six months. If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever. Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot. Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and thr…
> If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever.
SV bubble. Getting a promotion every 2.5 years is very rare in traditional engineering companies.
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#10Two years and six months. If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever. Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot. Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and thr…
Two years six months is also a reasonable time as some companies have salary discussions only once per year.First time around, you might have only been at the company for a short time, after your first full year you might not be able to, want to go for a salary raise or you might not get it, but if you don't get it the second time, it's a sign that is hard to ignore
This is, though, with an asterisk that you made a reasonable effort to get your raise.
If you didn't, for example you had too much going on in your personal life, and therefore you couldn't put in the quality hours, it might make sense to just be happy with what they give you as in other places you might not be able to tend to your personal stuff as well as in your current company.