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What company did you almost join that would’ve RUINED your career? (Blind)

• unsecure (Pinterest): no i took all the bullets and my career is already in ruins
• WKzn20 (Akamai Technologies): I have a few.
  1) Amazon. The whole org got laid off a couple of months after I declined the offer. Interestingly, I also regret not joining them right out of college when their stock was under 35.
  2) Nutanix. Massive layoff one month after I declined.
  3) Meta. Whole team laid off barely a month after I declined.
  
  BTW every single time I chose a startup over big tech and the startup also failed. FML…..
• nearlydone (Walt Disney): Enron. I tried so hard to get on there. It was right before they crashed. I ended up getting a job literally right across the street from their two towers in Houston. On the day they collapsed I stood and watched from across the street as all the Enron people filed out the door with their cardboard boxes. I was never so happy to fail so miserably at getting a job.

Got lay off once, never again. (Blind)

• ⛩️Shogun⛩️ (Oracle): I realized what a trap career ‘progression’ within a company truly is. The politicking, getting passed over for promotions, and working hard to impress your boss and their boss.
  
  Instead, work a maximum of four hours and spend the rest of your time preparing for and taking interviews. Find a better offer at a new company, and switch. Rinse and fucking repeat. You need to go for the company that gives you the best \$\$\$, so that you can retire early from this terrible industry.
• k1ngG (LinkedIn): Isn’t that mentally straining. Having to constantly prepare for interviews.
• Pegr0Oyzk (Motional): Sounds like the fast path to burnout, but I suppose it’s better than scrambling to prep for interviews when the next axe falls.

60-80% of SWEs will lose their job over the next 4 years (Blind)

• Prestige™️ (Expedia Group): They cannot write BFS. No one cares about BFS
• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): If you are still asking people to implement BFS, the problem might not be the others…
• allsns (Microsoft): Tell me which big tech company’s headcount went down?

companies with low pay and AMAZING wlb (Blind)

• vgtdh (Amazon): Used to be government jobs. Still might be. But apparently everything is in turmoil under this administration
• 582!! (Amazon): Horrible mistake of voting republicans!
• .horn dog (Meta): The answer is always the same: Microsoft

Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns | Datacentres - UK (r/news)

• darknekolux: The concern: they were actually expected to pay for the electricity /s
• Intrinsic_Idiot_3076: AI Data centre got pregnant despite MSFT pulling out. /s
• CryMoreT_T: It’s funny US companies and Chinese companies have the opposite problems. One has the GPUs but no power. The other side has power but no GPUs