Regret going to JPMC interview first, not Amazon’s
Hi, so I’m a 2020 grad in India and during my campus placements in my final year, I had a couple of decent interviews lined up in the same slot. I went to JPMC SDE first (since probably they started interviewing earlier than others and the HR knew me) and got selected. So at this time I knew nothing about FAANG (I was very naive in college so please dont judge me). I recently started at JPM and I certainly dont like it, techs are literally treated as 2nd class citizens here and now that I know of it I feel so bad and there’s so much regret that it’s depressing for me :( Im so upset I didnt go to the Amazon interview happening right in the same lobby or Atlassian or even Walmart or Adobe. Now all these tech companies seem better to me than JPM and I kinda feel extremely sad about it (I’m almost sure I would have been able to crack the Amazon interview then as I did talk to my friend who cleared it and got an idea that even I could’ve. The amazon friend of mine works in AWS and says the work is pretty nice so I’ve so much regret now :( Any advice in coping with this would be really appreciated.
I want to leave JPM as soon as possible. Please suggest any good options? I’ve seen the blind community being extremely helpful and I’d like to not make another same mistake again, hence would love some advice from experienced folks.
The only pro of JPMC over these companies is that the base salary is almost 1.4 times the base offered by these other companies but JPMC doesnt have any stocks and I think almost all these companies offered stocks which makes the TC almost same so idk if that still counts as a pro.
TC: 21 lpa
YOE: 0
Edit : Can anyone please please also tell me which companies are hiring rn/which are the good companies I should apply to? Any advice is really appreciated.
#sde #interviews #faang #walmart #atlassian
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The only good thing about JP is that it's very difficult to get fired. So although you'll never see any raises and get promoted very rarely, you can also just BS and do almost nothing without any consequences. No joke, I've seen people spent 2+ weeks changing the color of a button and that guy is probably a top JP tech manager by now.
Grind that leetcode and just look for any way out. It took me years to escape and yes the journey is painful but I promise you, it's completely worth it. I have no doubt that you can do it sooner OP because you recognized that you are in a bad situation much faster than I did.
Effect: "the skills of your co-workers / managers are just plain bad. It's not until you go to a real tech firm that you learn that repositories and not comments is how you preserve your changes. You'll learn that a method doesn't mean 500 to 1k lines of for loops copied and pasted then nested inside each other."
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