Hello, I have been working at a lesser known mid sized company (<1000 engineers) for 2 years now after I graduated. I have had so much opportunities to learn and grow in many aspects. These aspects include: front end (react, redux), back end (node js, dotnet core), infrastructure (CI/CD, tooling, hands on AWS setup using ECS, lambda, api gateway, matillion, cron jobs, etc) , owning an initiative from start to finish and delivering to the LTs directly, mentoring and leading more junior engineers, interviewing others, and many more. I love my team, have amazing work life balance (9 to 5) and I would say I am in a very good spot politically and socially and am one of the most valued engineers on my team. My managers also tell me I am on a very fast track to becoming a tech/team lead. Now that I have reached my 2 year mark, I would like to evaluate my career path whether it be inside the company or outside. I have been interviewing at couple places after some recruiters reached out to me (couple from FANG) and have some onsite opportunities that I pushed off until like July, August since I am unsure what I want to do. After talking to couple of my buddies at Fang, they don't seem to be getting the opportunity I am getting at my company. My question here is.. Does the company name (and correlated higher pay) really matter in my situation? Do you still grow a lot at bigger, more popular companies? What do you think is really more valuable in my situation? TC: 130k
It would be very helpful if people who voted commented the why's as well!!
With 2 YOE, TC has potential to go around 165k on average.
Stay until you are lead, then look if you want to.
I'd say give it another year or two if you truly enjoy the work. Career is a marathon, not a sprint.
That's a good point, although I am constantly worrying about complacency.
Start a project on the side. It is a priveledge to be able to choose what you work on. I look out my apartment window right now (11:30pm) and see about half of the lights are still on at an Amazon office accross the street, with a few ppl at their desks grinding away.
OO the votes are split into half lol. More conflicted now fml
Early in your career it’s really important to surround yourself by people who you can learn from. If you feel like you are learning and growing everyday in your current role then stay. The investment will seriously pay off later in your career. But if you don’t feel like you are learning and being challenged then I’d suggest looking elsewhere. Also, you mentioned that you are on track to be promoted to a lead role with only two years of experience? That seems a little early in your career. Are the people on your team really junior? My recommendation is to surround yourself with people who are much more senior than you so that you can learn from them.
I was promoted to a senior role within a year as I had to work my ass off due to circumstances. That paid off and got me where I am now. They say fast track to lead but that itself is at least 2 years away. Whats your opinion in terms of topic to focus on? I do feel like I had my hands on many areas technically, but haven't had the chance to Really dive deep. Should I continue being this full stack role? Focus more on certain things? What would be more attractive in the long run?
Agree. You are still pretty early in career. Try to get into Fang or companies that hire Fang like eg. Dropbox, Uber etc. in a project that's in early stages. Those are career builder opportunities. Don't chase $$. It'll come by itself.
So you're ~24yo making $130,000 and your team and company love you. What's the problem? If you didnt read Blind and get exposed all these insane TC, would you be asking yourself the same original question?
You are completely right. I always feel like I am in this race or some sort and tend to push myself out of my comfort zone often. Blind posts and my friends telling me they make x amount, or they are looking for a new job, etc etc have definitely had impact on me as well. Maybe I should really cut that out huh
Work to learn, not to earn. I'd rather learn something instead of making big bucks but am bored to death. If you can find something in between, go for it 👍
I would swap with you, also 2 year of exp. Got boring project and didn't learn much. Tc is 170 in Seattle
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If you have read around in Blind, you are underpaid. If you are happy with that, stay. Otherwise leave
How underpaid would you say I am? I would obviously like to get paid more
Do a search in blind for simmilar position. Location is important. where do you live?