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DBdg52

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DBdg52
May 29, 2021 11 Comments

After 10 years of experience in tech I have realised that culture is a very important thing to consider while joining any company.

I have worked in msft and amzn and have interviewed with google and fb, from which i can tell a little about their cutlure from an interviewee perspective.

I greatly admire culture of Microsoft and Google, who greatly value academics. My team (turing) in MS had some of the great engineers with an academic mindset, which were upto date with recent research papers and state of art.

Jumped the ship to Amzn (l64 to l6) for a very lucerative TC from 270k to 350k but then soon realized after a year, how happy i was with my life in MS. I was working with some very complex algorithms in a stressfree environment, spent a lot of time with my family and was happy and content.

I definitly started saving more money, but is it really worth it?

I feel FB has the same culture of amzn, to code and ship as fast as you can v/s thinking deeply about a solution. And if you dont code and ship fast, you will be shown an exit door.

Life is not about TC and dick measuring contests. Someone with a tc of 150k might be much happier than someone with a tc of 300k

thougts?

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  • Google
    Ǝ⅃ӘOOӘ

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    Ǝ⅃ӘOOӘ
    Depends on what you want.
    WLB, TC, Career Growth you only get to pick two. WTC theorem.
    May 29, 2021 1
  • Amazon
    zsnafu

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    zsnafu
    "great engineers from top universities"

    You don't have to go to a top university to be a great engineer.

    I worked at a place that mostly hired from "top universities." Those who were hired who didn't go to a top school were better a lot of the time.
    May 29, 2021 1
    • Amazon
      DBdg52

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      DBdg52
      OP
      I apologize, i didnt want to offend anyone from this post. I myself dont come from a top university. What I meant was an academic mindset. Like when you see a problem, you can think of some great articles/research papers, that solves the problem in hand very well rather than simply sticking to basic algorithms like bfs/dfs which everyone go through for clearing interviews
      May 29, 2021
  • Tableau / Eng
    ZeroKool2

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    ZeroKool2
    You were at a very small team within a very specific org at Microsoft.
    Most of the industry, and most teams at msft are not that way.
    May 29, 2021 0
  • Same experience as I'm ex Amazon. It's day and night difference. Amazon was absolute pile of poop. I'm a heck lot more productive at Microsoft when there's no slave master. Surprising how much difference culture makes.
    May 29, 2021 0
  • But living in seattle/bay area to buy a home it costs around 1.2-1.5 million, if we don’t chase TC then we won’t be able buy one in anytime in future.
    May 29, 2021 2