Going back to hardware company
Left a hardware company to join a FANG doing the same thing, got a pay bump a long the way. Same location as before, down leveled (hardware industry inflate their level), but smaller team. I have the feeling that at least in Amazon, things are done as a minimum viable product and then just deployed and debug in production. It is almost like the management and people we hire don't know what they are doing. This kind of work culture has taken a toll on my mental health lately. Let's say I had been planning on going back to a hardware company, and found one that will pay me similar or even more after they give me a raise. Will it be good in the long run assuming that I hedge the potential FANG stock growth by buying them and leave for non FANG? Has anyone done it? Am I crazy for thinking about this? TC now: L5 230K 18 yoe TC negotiation: Technologist 285K, equivalent to around high L6 in Amazon. Company is stable and too big to fail. Still moving fast and innovative. Firmware for enterprise stuff, in one of the vendor.
Not worth it, the product companies like Amazon with their AI chops et al, will keep making you rich with stocks. HW stocks are stagnant at the best, if not falling. Nvidia bump was rare and was fueled by a fad from Cloud, Crypto land. My suggestion: go to a Self driving company instead and book FANG comparable TC, stick around till it lasts
Make sense. However what I have seen is rampant down leveling and limited promotion in firmware of these product or cloud companies.
Pick up some OS chops, a bit of Networking and Web dev. Trust me, FW engineers rule in device companies coz you are truly full stack
I know someone who came from Qualcomm to Microsoft but came back to Qualcomm with much higher compensation than before.
Keep bouncing for higher tc it’s like pinball
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