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Golden Handcuff Is Real (Blind)
- droandroan (Anduril): Many would trade 650k in the bay for 450k lcol remote. Bay area sux ass if youre a single dude in tech..
- typesafeai (Netflix): Why are u trying to jump ships my dear stunning colleague
- hdwjn3 (General Motors): Dude that’s not a golden handcuff that’s a diamond handcuff 🤣
Genuinely curious why not OE? You can hit 7 figures easily….
calling it now. anthropic IPO is the day knowledge work died (Blind)
- vewL62 (Salesforce): Flying cars, self driving cars we have been hearing them for more than 10 yrs but it’s still not adopted at scale and drivers are still working:)
- ThePMDude (GoFundMe): Let’s see. Insane progress in verifiable domains but very little in others.
- $onofAnton (Amazon): You’re going to be wrong sir. Not hating.
FDE - career suicide? (Blind)
- randomzomb (Amazon): No one looks down on FDEs. If you like traveling it’s undoubtably worth it. The only people that might think less of it are SWEs mentally stuck a decade in the past. In reality, it’s their job that’s viewed worse nowadays.
- epax (New): FDE is going to be commoditised by solution architects and sales engineers, as well as random consultants from Accenture and Deloitte.
As a SWE focus on becoming better at MLE. - noramo (Meta): Is the comp same as swe?
The Anthropic offer I turned down 3 years ago is worth more than the one I just got. (Blind)
- furtol (New): I live in a world where people think 655k is small. smh. pls share your process op, I might be interviewing with ant soon.
- HrGD83 (Amazon): It’s not that surprising. More folks want to work there and people are factoring in a higher probability of stock appreciation.
- urcgc (Uber): Your \$700k TC would have worth \$70M/year now.
One moment silence for OP.
“But writing code is only 10% of the job” copium (Blind)
- nunux (Salesforce): Most people here have only worked for large bureaucracies and think meetings and alignment is work. 70% coding, reviews, design docs was pretty normal till 2015 too for a Senior engineer. For anyone disagreeing, take a look at how highly technical startups and open source work. A high degree of communication happens async in doc writing and code even precovid.
- yxrkt (Roblox): Was your career 2 years long? I don’t think I’ve seen any company where anyone besides juniors were able to write code 70% of the time.
- MrHorizon (Meta): Hello baby, when you grow up you will realise delivering a product isnt just about “writing code” that daddy gave you in a Jira