okay so you’ve LC hard in College, signed up for hackathons and built 3 useless but fancy personal projects for your resume, interviewed and got an offer from FAANG. what is the logical next step? How do you continue to boost your resume, what do you use to improve it? do you continue to work on personal projects, or start new, more complex projects, or mentoring/volunteering? I understand the next thing would be to either collect RSUs and LC to next FAANG, or keep grinding for refreshers and climb to become *the* techlead, but would recruiters even bother to call if you have nothing else shiny on your resume but your current FAANG job? would managers look to promote you just by you doing well at your day job? what else would be a positive for career growth after first FAANG gig? Hope to get some insight on this, thanks! P.S. FAANG is just placeholder for high-paying tech companies, welcome responses from the MULLAFREJAHFKWSIBX crowd as well TC: 75k yoe:1 no microsoft pls im no schmoozer
“MULLAFREJAHFKWSIBX” seriously dude?
You start living your life.
Friend, this is Blind. If I wanted sensible life advice I’d be posting this on FishBowl
Just kidding but really though - I get it but also don’t want to get stagnant or be misinformed on what to do. You only get so many years on this earth to try to live life AND do well in your career.
Get an MBA, become a PM to grow your impact.
About a year in you'll realize a meaningful career isn't about collecting stamps, so you will use that FAANG healthcare (YOLO withdraw from that HSA) to get a good therapist, who will motivate you to quit and persue something idealistic (travel, join cult, sexy startup, non profit, AI, blockchain, ect...), you'll become jaded when it doesn't turn out the way you expected, accept an offer at MSFT, start buying shit you don't need; a boat, motorcycle, ect... eventually realize can't buy happiness and start investing. You'll retire alone and old in some high rise condo you bought on a real estate kick a few decades before. You have a cat but she doesn't really like you, most of your fam is dead or not in touch. You go to bed around 9pm and spend your days thumbing through Blind and other apps, wondering what it was all for. --of course it varies; you get diabetes/heart diseases and die before retirement if you eat a lot of those free carbs and don't work out. Some ppl play out the marriage game, which is eventually revealed to be the "give away half my TC" detour, but can make retirement more meaningful if you have kids & avoid fucking them up.
🤔 you do understand you’re coming off as a bit bitter at the FAANG(+M) folk? Either that or it’s a bad joke I can’t tell... I guess you’re just a better person than most cause you’re not after money ... and you apparently already have true happiness lol 😆
This post... doesn’t seem like it’s a joke...
You stay and move up or lc and leave. It’s just another career my dude...what do accountants do after pwc? I am just trying to get promoted at a reasonable rate, work on a side proj and hobbies, find ways to invest and if things look stale move to another high paying company.
Cool. Good luck on your normal career. thank you next /s
Sorry not to be mean to you but you started throwing shade (I’m not an accountant). I just wanted to know what are less obvious career paths after securing your first high paying job. Of course it sounds great that after you get that first job it’s smooth schmoozing from here on out but I just wanted to be made aware of any tips or tricks people may have picked up along the way. Seems like you’re going for a normal career, which sounds great good for you, but not quite what I’m looking for here. I mean, in all honesty, I’m probably gonna end up doing what you’re doing, just curious to know what’s good out there.
You get out of tech and move in proprietary trading at Jane Street, Citadel, or Two Sigma. Big brownie points if you make it to Renaissance Technologies
It would be amazing to make that sweet 2MM per annum for sure. Tips to get there? Pretty sure LC hard isn’t gonna cut it here anymore
A referral will help you get the interview at JS, Citadel, or Two Sigma. From there you just have to be really good at solving Putnam math type questions, competitive programming like questions, and making markets on the most random things. For Renaissance Technologies, you need to publish research that will get them to contact you, preferably in math or physics or astrophysics.
Go to the next faang. Rinse repeat. Attempt to start the next faang. Fail and find a cushy job.
Yeah but, you know how it goes, how you got your Microsoft job was probably from good personal projects, internships and general misc. skills that you developed from these random experiences. But let’s say 4 years into Microsoft, what does your resume look like now, for, let’s say, FB recruiter to contact you for senior SWE roles? Is it gonna be a full page of things you did for Microsoft throughout those 4 years, or...? What is sufficient, and what is hitting it out of the park in your opinion?
In SW, i find that fang doesn’t care about what you did at Microsoft. They just care if you are good at leetcode. You can develop domain level expertise if you want. You will get contacted thru referral more than what is exactly written on your resume.