Thinking of working on a side project that may take off sometime, i currently have plenty of time to manage to do things on the side, but I’m not well paid. Thinking of quitting my job and join any other company to get better pay and continue doing my side project. Is that a good idea let’s say if i join google or linkedin? People @ linkedin and google, anyone able to manage doing personal projects on the side?
Open a coffee shop. My brother owns a small cafe in LA area makes more than all of us TC>800k works maybe 15 hours a week.
Damn, $5 lattes rake in the 💰
Woah. Curious, which one? DM
Google encourages people to have side projects. The only requirement is, you need to tell Google that you are working on such and such a project. If Google is not working on something which this will be a direct competition to, most probably your application will get accepted. The acceptance rate is pretty high.
How is it from the work life balance perspective? Can engineers @ google manage to do side projects outside of work?
Not sure, I have heard many manage to do it. I haven't done that myself yet. WLB in general is v good.
I would dissuade you from quitting your day job till this side project can support 75% of your income.
That is what I’m thinking about, my current job has plenty of time for me to start any personal side project, but less pay off course than even new hires. However, wanna evaluate whether i should just quit and get a well paying offer somewhere else and continue my personal project or just stay in the same company till my personal project makes more sense
Screw that. Keep you job and do your side project on the side. It starts paying >= TC then definitely make the switch.
LinkedIn has great WLB for most teams. But I've never seen someone be able to start a new full time company on the side without quitting. You can brainstorm and get things rolling, but if your side thing is going to be 40h/wk you'll need to quit first.
I'm curious about this as well. Will our companies attempt to seize our private works. Especially if they're not related at all
Check your offer letter or anything else that you signed during onboarding. Typically, as long as you are not directly competing against your past company and not using company resources to work on the project, you're fine.
My concern is that I plan to do it anyways. And if I ask for permission, then they can say no. And then there will be a record that I intentionally did something against company policy, and my legal defense would be weakened