Pls help. Suggest my next company and role please
I’m going to live and retire in New York, because that’s where my friends, family are and my partners friends and family are. I’d rather change professions than not be in NYC. That is non negotiable. I’m on the verge of just fucking quitting and would but the job market is terrible. Quite frankly, I am over Google. The stock has tanked, my comp is trash. I have been working 70 hour weeks for gosh knows how long. My manager is evasive. It could be a year before internal roles really open again. I will not go to HFT because I hate math and fin tech. In general though, I am a strong performer workaholic type that excellent in a number of things from business, design, product, sales and even law. I am in engineering now. I don’t really care if my TC goes down a lot. Id like decent work life balance(40 hours a week) and a stable company and I don’t think I want to code anymore- developer relations or like sales engineer Bs shit eng I guess is fine, and maybe management but least not be an IC. I have a duel bachelor in design and business and a masters in comp science from top 10 school. TC:320k- next year 250k YOE 7
is there a reason you don’t want to code anymore? Just tired of coding or some other reason?
I don’t want to do tech interviews anymore and I end up working really long hours no matter how easy the job is. But yeah just anything else honestly
Long hours sound like a you problem, not a role problem
New for the win you guys
Do you like meetings? Why not TPM or something like that? It's a lot of tracking and hounding people but otherwise I think you mostly run meetings
If you’d almost quit now and have such clarity (nice work), why not master lowering your hours in the meantime? Think of it like a progressive exercise plan but in reverse. Change only one thing at a time: difficulty or time, and change by a percentage each week. Mastering it? Lower your hours by a percentage again. Not? Stay at current reduction. When you set boundaries and achieve the win of lowering your effort each week, I guarantee figuring out your next job will be easier.
you should try customer engineering/tech sales at Google or some tech company... your engineering experience will be very valuable, it's not as technical as an engineer, work/life balance is great and is usually on your own time... TC drop isn't too much but depending on your level, it can be very close, and there are so many opportunities in NYC for it (was a former customer engineer), feel free to DM me if you want to learn more :)
Cool story bro