1) Find a critical and non commoditized domain that makes you invaluable to the company
2) Become the resident master of the domain and own it. Create a moat of knowledge and skills that others in the company don't have.
3) Optimize the hell out of the process such that your 40 hours of weekly work can really be done in about 5.
4) Spend the majority of your day enjoying your hobbies or spending time with friends and family while you rest and vest. Bonus: Go on Blind and read about others with their 996 schedule, PSC and PIP culture, and LC grinding.
Source: I've done both the long term rest and vest schedule as well as the 996 high TC gig. I'm currently in the latter. Each has its merits so there's no need to judge.
Time gets wasted helping others ( who canβt do on their own) and updating status to leads and non tech ppl with tech title. Evening and weekend goes in clearing backlog; no time to GTFO.
Interesting perspective. I guess prolonged low pay can lead to mediocrity. But, i am willing to bet that their work in their current organization will also suffer.
Intelβs largest presence in the US was strategically selected to be Oregon. Most people who have lived in the greater Portland area will likely never leave Portland and Intel chose the location wisely because there are no other big companies to go to. Essentially if you joined intel Oregon, the odds that one is going to leave and move to another location are very low. I do know people who have moved to the Bay Area or San Diego but these are really low numbers and typically very early career stage folks.
Folsom is a similar trap city but due to Pandemic it hasn't worked out as Intel top management had hoped. FAANG is hiring the best Intel Folsom-ites and letting them WFH. Folsom is driveable to SF Bay 1 or 2x a week, especially with carpooling. While AMD and Nvidia have spent multi-millions on new office buildings in Santa Clara Intel has sold off their Silicon Valley land even recently. This speaks volumes - even today Intel doesn't wish to compete for SF Bay top talent!
Haha damn these responses are savage. I worked at Intel for years. Work-life-balance is good. The people that work there do stuff other than work. They have families and friends and outside hobbies. For a long time, Intel paid more than enough to raise a family in Oregon. Only recently did Portland start to price up.
Iβve been at Intel 8+ years and it wasnβt until a few years ago that other companies really started to pay competitively outside of Intel. Up until then, Intel was one of the best employers in Oregon and we had direction. Would 2nd the WLB and great benefits. Things have definitely taken a turn since then. Curious to see what the new CEO does to steer the ship.
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Some people don't give a fuck about another 100k, and would rather do more interesting things with their time than grind LC and hop companies.
The real question is why do people waste their youth running on a treadmille for Zuck, just to make the world a shitter place.
1) Find a critical and non commoditized domain that makes you invaluable to the company
2) Become the resident master of the domain and own it. Create a moat of knowledge and skills that others in the company don't have.
3) Optimize the hell out of the process such that your 40 hours of weekly work can really be done in about 5.
4) Spend the majority of your day enjoying your hobbies or spending time with friends and family while you rest and vest. Bonus: Go on Blind and read about others with their 996 schedule, PSC and PIP culture, and LC grinding.
Source: I've done both the long term rest and vest schedule as well as the 996 high TC gig. I'm currently in the latter. Each has its merits so there's no need to judge.
Things have definitely taken a turn since then. Curious to see what the new CEO does to steer the ship.