This is just a general question. I'm 27, working as a consultant in cloud infra and DevOps. I just joined Amazon 2 months ago after working at MSFT for 4 years. Main reasons for switching were higher pay and career growth due to creation of HQ2. Now HQ2 has been cancelled so that was a big bummer. At the same time while pay is great, job is pretty much equal to what I was doing at MSFT and definitely don't plan to stay doing the same job that much longer. Been considering other areas like Technical Program Management, Product Management, Partner Engineering or SRE. Now Google has always been a dream place to work for and there are some stuff I feel I could be good for and, would be new areas for me to explore. My question is how long should I stay at my current place before even attempting to look at other places? By all means I like Amazon but not sure if I'm a 100% sold on their culture. There's a lot of stuff that I didn't know about till I started working here that I don't precisely agree with. Also, aside of ramping up on AWS, the job is the same to what I was doing before so it's not like I would lose a lot by switching but not trying to burn bridges or plain fuck up lol By all means this is just a thought. Just wondering.
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