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The past year at Microsoft showed me why no company is worth a shred of loyalty. I'll be chasing $$$ going forward. Jumping to Amazon (and will leave that shithole in a couple years as well). Amazon offer: L5 SDE, TC 280K Microsoft situation: L61, TC 192K Total years of experience: 2 My plan: * Switching companies every 2-3 years until I get to about 10 yoe. I'll target a better company than shitty Amazon next time (not many jobs out there right now). * So, I'll have tenures in about 4 companies or so by the time I hit 10 yoe. After that, I'll stick in companies for 4 years to try to get into management and eventually leadership (if I'm lucky). * I'm aiming to get to atleast 2M networth in the next 8 years if possible so I have FU money. I'm currently at 200K NW and will be closing on a shit house in Bellevue (which I plan to upgrade with sweat equity) by end of this month. I figured location mattered more than how upgraded the house was. Question to all the more experienced people here, is my thinking correct?
I didn’t do that. Wasted my youth as a msft employee. I think you are doing the right thing.
Correct choice, but instead of jumping every 2-3yrs, another option would be to get promoted to N+1 level at current company and use that new TC to negotiate next jump, irrespective of how many years you stayed there.
I feel like career progression is more exponential than linear when you’re at a company for 10+ years. First few years you don’t see much progress but sometime between year 6-10 leadership and senior leadership opportunities start popping up. That being said, if you stick with the same company long term and plan on advancing in that one org, you’ll always be the hardest worker and the least fiscally compensated compared to your peers. If more money is your goal then by all means jump ship but if you have other motivators then find some comfort in the thought that when things do start jumping off for you it’ll be an exponential jump opposed to the linear path most people that jump follow
That's something I hadn't realized. Thanks! My worry is that the percentage of people seeing that exponential jump even after staying a lot of years seems small. So, it feels like I might as well earn the $$ instead. I will seriously consider what you've said though!
MSFT seems pretty bad for career progression. All those extra small levels slow down the ladder climb and lower comp than other places until you make it to level 68 or 69. Hopping is the way to go.
Agreed! Thanks for the affirmation!!
My biggest regret is not leetcoding and jumping to higher pay companies
Never too late!
See you at the banana stand
Haha. No you won't. I only eat organic. There's already too many cancer causing shit I'm exposed to without doing it willfully. I'm not touching anything at Shitazon (Coffee or otherwise) given their extremely low standards. Food at Google or Meta is organic and no GMO on the other hand.
Agreed. Right now, all I do is work!
Amazon is top of the food chain for comp. Where would you go from there? Startup w/ paper money that has a 90% chance of failure
I didn’t do this and also wish I did. Now I’m backwards. Old and feeling like I need to jump. I landed at MS thinking it would be glory but grass is not always greener on the other side. My problem is I don’t know where to go next. I’m getting old and tired.
Why are all posts from amazon employees so aggressive?
Backboning
Lol. I'm just in a bad mood. Sorry!