Is chasing TC really fine?

Oct 13, 2021 25 Comments

My friend joined company A in August as a new grad.
Right after joining company A, she got an offer from a previously interviewed company and joined company B in October.
Now she is interviewing at some FAANG company as they approached as a response towards her May month application.

TC @ company A: 80K, 2 Months
TC @ company B: 160K, 7 days as of this post
TC of 3rd company TBD, she is still in the interview phase.

She is expecting a great bump compared to her current TC.

She is having 2.5 YOE before her Master's degree.

I was thinking this is not good for her career. What is your perspective?
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  • Apple
    ooooooop

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    ooooooop
    i don’t see any problems here
    Oct 13, 2021 4
    • Apple
      ooooooop

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      ooooooop
      nope, i don’t she will be marked as an unreliable person
      Oct 13, 2021
    • Genesys
      Beaverton

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      Beaverton
      How would anyone know she was an “unreliable” person if she doesn’t put them on their resume. And there’s enough demand that being blacklisted doesn’t matter even at the company you worked at for a couple weeks
      Oct 13, 2021
  • Just stop at 3rd company. More than that is sus

    Also if you don’t update your LinkedIn no one will know you work there
    Oct 13, 2021 2
  • Google
    goog2021

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    goog2021
    80k to 160k? No brainer!
    Oct 13, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    amz100000

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    amz100000
    Not good for long term. Your friend is not staying longer in any company to learn anything significant. This will back bite in future promotions when skillsets will be lagging.
    Oct 13, 2021 4
    • LC matters most for mid level roles, for senior roles you need project leadership experience companies wont give you unless you know what you’re doing
      Oct 13, 2021
    • Amazon
      amz100000

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      amz100000
      Till sde 2, it's easier. But for SDE 3+ positions people look for skillset like designs , product outlook and experience. If you keep job hopping every 6 months it's difficult to get to next levels as you not build enough influence in team to get higher level projects done. The optimal switching pattern is every 3 years which gives sufficient data for each company.

      @rekt_mode , unfortunately LC is not a good way to analyze candidate. I am not a proponent of it. But we can easily find out where candidate has appropriate skills or not based on design discussions. Every body can speak about basic building blocks like load balancer , Nosql db but very few are able to dive deeper into internals like retention policy , indexes .... etc.
      Oct 13, 2021
  • Totally fine in early career
    Oct 13, 2021 0