chase TC early in career or go for career growth opportunities?
Nov 3, 2021
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Title. Go for high tc but chill companies or go for exciting startups for career growth opportunities? For those who’ve picked growth over TC was what you learnt worth it?
Blind tax: 155k
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FAANG or similar company with brand recognition
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Hot series B
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Either go to FAANG, retire, or go to another hot series B and try to repeat the process
FAANG will always be there. If you have 10 YOE you can jump to Google or Amazon as a senior SDE and make 400k. You may not be able to go to a series B, make 120k and end up with $10m
A couple years ago when Snapchat’s stock tanked to like $7 nobody was freaking out about how great it was
In hindsight those guys that joined back then are sitting in millions in equity per year
Now the people that joined wework a couple years ago probably feel the opposite
It’s really all down to your appetite for risk and how comfortable you are losing a large portion of your comp package
It’s easy to assume you are growing when you aren’t. It’s easier to measure TC.
So in my opinion high TC is usually correlated with high growth
1. Start with brand name aka FAANG or other big companies with respected tech culture. This will bless your resume and you will always get an interview at companies of your choosing.
2. Go to career growth company 2-4 years. For this a starting low package is fine but within a couple of years it should be very high because of your growth. You will also learn the most here.
3. After 4-6 years in growth companies, switch to director/staff in a small-medium company with very high TC and chill/FIRE/splurge for the rest of your life.