I'm coming from a Tier 3 company with 5 YOE and thought that once you get into FAANG, you can just coast your way through like the YouTube Day in the Life videos. I've been here for a year and just realizing, what a lie... TC: 350K EDIT: Damn this post blew up. I was partially trolling for fun. Those that are taking this personally, lmao I'm sorry you have nothing better to do (keep coasting :) #google #meta #amazon #apple
Lol, what made you come to the conclusion that coasting at faang is easy?
Blind
Indeed, you are.
You should've joined Google. There are some mega chillers in that company.
Their personality is their company
Google and Microsoft have better coastguard lifestyle, others not too much.
I would like to know more about these coastguard opportunities /s
At MSFT, avoid Azure core or anything Azure for a good wlb. Azure org has good career progression but if you really are competitive, why would you work at Azure for peanuts? Go to Netflix. If you want a turtle speed rest and vest career join Windows team. I have trusted sources tell me Windows team makes money but they barely work. My PM friend in Windows worked 10 hr work week in 2018-2020 and he “burnt out due to lack of work” and left for a bay area startup. He now says he misses those chill days lmao. If you want an okay career progression with okay-good wlb, there are so many orgs here. In the end it’s all about balancing the triangle of TC, Career growth and WLB. Pick any two.* *TC at MSFT is generally low unless you are L65+ recent hires where it starts getting really good.
lol you believed the youtube videos, I know some of the creators of the said videos get piped due to low perf. they still manage to crack the next faang and keep regurgitating the videos why do you want to coast anyway you just have 5 Yoe. focus on the work you wlll have a very fulfilling career, take breaks in between
Probably because it doesn't matter, work is not life, if you can do the minimum you can allocate that time towards thing that you actually enjoy in life
And then hit major mid life crisis at 35 thinking wtf you did in the last 10 years. No competence, no ability to work hard, no character. Just a coaster at work and a troll on this app. Family doesn't respect you, neither do your coworkers. But yes, you managed to slip through the cracks.
It's honestly the team u get into, I was in Alexa in amzn for 3 yrs and it was the toughest time I had, then I moved to HR and they put us in an almost basement of a building with very slow work pace, the place barely had windows, they were waiting for us to die, so u can find vest and rest roles like that
What part of alexa. Product is cool sounds like it could be fun?
It is fun, I'm in design but you'll prolly be working for a small team building an internal only tool like I was and they demand more than ur 9-5, it's like AWS, sht work-life balance but u learn alot
Rest and vest basically means finding your comfort zone and staying in it. How fast you reach the comfort zone depends on your competence level. [EDIT] The thing with Amazon is that they won't let anyone stay in their comfort zone for long. With Meta, it's possible to some extent. OP, what about Apple?
Amazon is again team dependent. I’m enjoying my time here at moment … I realize it is a matter of time.
+1 enjoying the time of my life at Amazon, been 2 years now, I’ll be looking elsewhere next year to get out of this ultra comfort zone
You should have checked Blind reviews (just Pulse now) and Glassdoor as well
When you make big money you can't really coast. Higher expectations.
Depends, if everyone is making big money, you're just average, so the expectations are average
Yeah true, it's like u just have to run faster than the slowest guy kinda thing. That's what I do for relationships as well. Seattle area has some really garbage tech guys so I do well, bless...
Internal amazon teams say otherwise
show us the light, which teams are they
The key is to look into job postings for “tools” or hit up different recruiters on LI and ask for point of contact to build internal tools. Give em some BS like “i’m passionate about empowering amazonians”
Sounds like an Apple problem
Lmao it really is. The cool thing about apple though is you eventually get used to all the stress and anything after that feels like coasting
No it's not. It's a team/org problem. I'm afflicted by it at G.