Regretting joining Google
Joined maybe 8 months ago. At the time I felt underpaid due to my company’s low performing stock and my Google offer was a lot higher than I expected (~240k for L3). At my previous company I had a lot of responsibilities and ownership, and I felt like I was on a fast track for promos. Here I feel like I haven’t learned anything since joining. It seems all my team does is maintain a legacy system whose codebase is an absolute mess. Most of my days are spent cleaning up legacy code or slowly rolling out experiments to deprecate some old feature. It’s killing me. I asked my manager today if all this would at least help me get promoted and he indicated that it would look good but I’d need to be designing or coding to hit L4. The few projects needing design just go to our senior guys. I’ve been looking for other teams to join but I’m not seeing anything I’m interested in that’s looking for L3s. Really not sure if I should leave Google or try to find a better team, but all the teams Im seeing that need L3s look like the same legacy grunt work :/
Want to exchange with me. Would happily take that Google job.
240k ?????? Wtf? I am L3 earning half!!!
I had an counter offer from a hedge fund w/ 250k TC and 100k signing bonus
How many YOE?
Maybe you could start with 20% project see if there is a project you are interested in. Btw, which type of project you are looking for? I know cloud ai has some good stuff to work on
20 percent is a great way to underperform in your team. The 20 part becomes more like 40 as you are trying to impress the other team that does not have headcount.
You described a vast majority, well over 50%, of software developer jobs.
You sure it is just “over 50%” ???
What company previous?
Snap. Doesn’t help that the stock has literally tripled since I left :p
If you want to go down a few tiers, have great WLB, lots of impact and interesting projects, work in LA/remote, ping me
If u want action, join FB. Easier to get promo to e5 because there won’t be shortage pf projects. I am considering going back some day although my amazon team is a lot more professional and chill
I’ve heard this as well. I’ve got a friend starting there soon so might get a referral and interview
Or join Amazon. People have been talking about how much work they have at Amazon.
Long way to go for a humblebrag
Sorry if it came out like a brag. I wanted to rant, that’s it
It didn’t come out like a brag. Atinlay2 is just being Atinlay2
Imagine doing exactly that in a lower company and getting paid less than half. Help me if you can please
I’m sorry 😢
I'm kinda in the same boat. Joined FB from a smaller company, and I feel like a chisel is slowly chipping off small parts of my soul everyday. I'm currently in the interview process with several startups. Hang in there
Thank you :) Glad to hear from someone else in the same situation. Hope everything works out for you
That's how all big corporates roll
It’s just slowly sucking the life out of me :( I came from a smaller company where I was coding every day, designing new features, and actually had an impact.
Exactly. Higher pay but totally soul sucking to be buried under corporate process.