I noticed many big tech companies have very short average tenure. Facebook: 2.02 years Google: 1.90 years Amazon: 1.84 years Microsoft: 1.81 years Why is the average tenure so short? Are most people just job hopping for experience/salary boost? Or do people not like the companies?
1.5 years at fb and looking to move. Got significantly lowballed on my initial offer and didn’t know it. also, fb is a pressure cooker (I get great ratings so don’t say it’s because I’m bad) that wants you to work all the time. In addition, not sure if I like our impact on the world.
So what are you considering? Moving to a startup? Are people just bouncing around between a few large companies? Or are they leaving the tech titans for smaller companies? What about your colleagues? Where do they go?
Dunno where yet. Talking to a couple public companies that aren’t FANG and a startup.
🤔My sources says the number is even smaller
Are these figured adjusted for the fact that the workforce at these places is growing so shorter tenures are to be expected?
Not adjusted.
When I was at Microsoft, I'm sure that was not the average. It was much closer to 5 yrs. Having said that... Hundreds of new hires and college grads join all these companies regularly so the average tennis gets pulled down. At Google it's very common to run into ppl who have been here 5 plus years but much less than Microsoft. So...tldr, your stats don't feel legit.
The average tenure is meaningless for a fast growing company like FB. If you add more people in one year than you have - guess what majority of them have been at the company less than a year :). What you are looking for is retention rate engineers, which is very high at FB
I heard it was a pressure cooker
@CjCB07 - not everyone's experiences are the same.
Those stats sound a bit low but yeah, salary. FANG companies tend to have younger workforces and it is in a young engineer's best interest to job hop a few times in their 20s
Two reasons, burn out and poor managers. It takes about two years to realize that your efforts are not appreciated.
You can get better package if you switch and there are lots of new opportunities. No reason to take all the shit that inevitably develop in a large company.
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Where do your stats come from?
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Smells fishy and seems too low. Do they say how many data points they have? Also this is all self-reported and not independently vetted, so it's difficult to trust it.