Benefits & drawbacks of different tech industries for SWE?

I am a senior software engineer (L6) trying to identify companies I would ideally like to work for. I have 15+ YoE but am not a job-hopper, so I don't have much exposure outside the industries I've worked in (networking, cloud services). I'm about halfway through my career, so thinking now may be a good time to find something new in a related industry. I'm curious what are the benefits and/or drawbacks you've noticed for the industry(ies) you've worked in? Here are some examples from my experience: * In Networking (Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Netgear) the release cycles are longer and the technology doesn't shift very rapidly, so the work pace is slower but less engaging. * In Cloud services (Amazon, Google) you get to work on problems at scale but you are tasked with oncall which degrades WLB. My primary considerations are WLB and interesting problems. Career progression and pay are not as important at this stage. Basically I'm trying to answer the question "what type of problems do I want to solve?" and learning benefits/drawbacks from blind will help me identify that. The specific industries I am looking at are: * Real Estate / Travel (Redfin, Airbnb, Tripadvisor, Hopper) * FinTech (Affirm, Block, Paypal, Plaid, Robinhood, SoFi) * Marketplaces (eBay, Whatnot) * Business Software (Atlassian, Salesforce, Microsoft) * Streaming (Netflix, Spotify) * Delivery (DoorDash, Instacart) * Social (Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn) TC: 350K+ YoE: 15+ #tech #fintech #industry #lookingforwork #career #wlb #johnstamos