Sigh I left to join a startup for 100k TC increase and now I hate my life. I have had to give up basically all my hobbies due to how time consuming my new job is. And now I can't even go back to Google because there's no headcount and I left as L3 so no one gives a fk that I left anyway. I don't know what to do. Edit: I'm not sure why so many people are commenting now of all a sudden but I want to clearify that I am not learning more at a startup. In fact I am learning less. There is a lot of hacking together something that barely works (just adding "if" statements with special cases everywhere to get things to work) whereas at Google I was on a high growth team with solid engineering (not a rest and vest team).
Google TC and current TC?
that is what you get for chasing money. gl
100K sounds to be a lot, but when you factor in tax, potential google stock appreciation and risk of startup stock being worthless, you may end up with less TC joining that startup.
True., On the long run..
100k more in paper money?
Greed is poison
Greed is what keeps the world going around
OP, your choice was good. It is hard to gain any knowledge as an L3 at Google. They use proprietary tech that dumbifies the work of junior engineers. You feel low now and 100k more in paper money is probably a joke, but the skills you gained are super valuable.
+1e9
+(10^0)
Fix the title bro
This.
Google isn’t worth it at all below L6 or at least L5.
Why?
Slow career growth. Also don’t like your own comment, it’s kind of embarrassing.
Which startup?
Op, do the interview process for L4 and if you pass, you might have a shot coming back, but you might need to wait one year at that startup
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