I joined AWS about a year ago as a new grad in Seattle and looking back WOWWW did I get bombarded with a learning curve. It was super stressful and painful, especially being remote. It wasn't even the WLB my team is nothing crazy, about 40 hours a week (I am incredibly blessed). It took 6 months just to start feeling comfortable in the team. So many packages and pipelines and permissions and APIs internal tools and frameworks etc... It made me really contemplate the career I chose multiple times and made me contemplate quitting. I was so anxious and depressed and in such a dark place. I couldn't sleep a lot of the time and my heart would start beating out my chest. I know that part of this is being in Amazon and part of being a new grad as well. But damn do I wanna stay here just so I don't lose half my hair trying to onboard to a new company and team, Is it just stressful and painful to have to keep learning from the start and picking up new tips and tricks for everything. Why does no one else talk about this, do I just have a reaction to this that is on the high end of the spectrum? Or is everyone else dealing with this silently and trucking along? 1 YOE TC: 170k
I feel the same. i hate having to ‘jump’ but my TC is still low (110k) so will probably jump again by next year for a bump.
That's understandable.
What is EM?
elon musk
No one talks about that? Heck it's built in really deep to the Meta onboarding. It's repeated weekly for months. Totally normal
Yea maybe that's why their retention is higher, here no one really seems to care.
It should be hard if you’re getting $170k fresh out of school 😅 But don’t worry, it’ll be second nature soon. Next job you’ll have the same onboarding, but it’ll be easier because you can compare everything. “Oh Phabricator is just like GitHub” but for Meta, etc.
Yeah you’re a new grad, you don’t know how to learn efficiently until at least 10 years in.
New grad here. Hitting 2 YOE. Finally starting to feel a little comfortable. The sleepless nights and heart pumping out of your chest, I know how that feels. Hair too lol! I hope you'll also learn to prioritise and get what you truly wanted eventually!
Thank you, I appreciate your input.
I think a lot of people indeed are dealing with it silently. A lot of it is just good timing, culture and your managers approach. I can attest to you that I went through what you went.
I appreciate your input.
Learning curve is normal in a big company imo
I see.
I've been in tech for 20 years, and I still find the first 6 months on a job to be the most stressful by far. You're not alone. Onboarding in a tech job can be hell. There are so many technologies, acronyms, and processes to learn. Documentation is often spotty or nonexistent. Lots of stuff is tribal knowledge. Thankfully, it gets better after the first few months.
Company likes to haze people. Simple as that.