1. How many years of experience do you have? 2. How many hours a day do you actually work? 3. How have you avoided layoffs? 4. Tips for staying under the radar? Just curious
I have a few coasters in my team. 1) 20+ 2) <1 hour 3) Be in a place where it is hard to find talent. Let’s say South Dakota, Wisconsin etc. 4) Don’t ever take leading responsibility, be good at work when assigned something, don’t take initiative or ask for work by yourself, support an app which is in maintenance only with no new features, be under a management who is unwilling to call you out if the team is delivering on the projects.
I hope I never work with you :)
Why? My team is still one of the top teams.
Are coasters freeloaders?
No. They are simply more efficient than the rest.
I would no, as long as they are holding my beer.
If you want to take time off then front load a few commits and push them up sporadically while “working from home”
Lmao working from home aka playing vidya gamezZx
Nah. Mostly day drinking
Join Microsoft or Google
or LinkedIn
Or oracle
Work on the same product and feature for your entire career. Once you have the whole code base in your head it is extremely fast to fix minor bugs or add some if else statements to create some new feature. Make sure no one else touches your code
Define "coasting" because a lot of this sounds like work.
Working much less than you should. Working much less than 40 hours a week.
There are multiple variations of coasting. It ranges from someone who simply doesn't care about promotions, so they just meet expectations but nothing extra. You can do this one at many companies working 10-5:30 at any level of experience, but especially with 5 years experience. The other end of the spectrum is because someone got lucky. They managed to work on a product where a single important client has no intention from switching from, but still brings in a solid amount of money. You see tons of people like this at companies like IBM, where they support something mainframe related where training someone new in India is too much effort.
Great point. Become a subject matter expert on a mission critical legacy system no cares to work on anymore. Or “how mainframe programmers make bank”
I don't think it's possible at FB but I may be wrong.
Deff possible. I have friends doing it now.
Sit on your ass and break things.
Lots of good answers already. I’d define coasting as “not struggling for promotion.” in that sense, stay in the same job until you have the knack for it and your brain naturally pattern matches most things that can/do happen. You become essential, but not highly visible—taken for granted in a good way. Another: have some sort of certification that gives you “fuck you” power. Professional Engjneer, Top Secret clearance, JD (lawyer), intellectual property. Basically be the guy/gal who has to sign off on others’ work. At that point, name your own hours.
Currently working to achieve the latter
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6+ experience 4-5 hrs tops complete the given tasks with quality make sure company is doing good business Move on to another team/company if you are the brightest in the lot.
How do you become the brightest in the lot?
That’s not coasting that’s literally doing your job