Burning out and quitting

Re:Burning out and quitting by tcoff91 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:43PM (#28307471)

Are you sure you can't reach out to your network and get in the side-door of a company without leetcoding? If you have advocates on the inside sometimes you can skip all the rigamarole.

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Re:Burning out and quitting by ldjkfkdsjnv on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:50PM (#28307545)

Not quite, there are roles I could get. But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. But again, I am quite burned out, so in some ways its in their favor to put me through a rigorous interview process.

Leetcode often filters out burned out employees

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Re:Burning out and quitting by eropple on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:06PM (#28307745)

> But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience.

Then do something else! There is a world beyond unicorns and FAANG companies.

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Re:Burning out and quitting by tnorthcutt on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:35PM (#28308026)

Agreed. If you're burned out, consider moving to a lower cost of living area (assuming SFBA or similar is your current situation) and take a lower paying job. The stress of FAANG/startupville doesn't make sense for a lot of people.

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Re:Burning out and quitting by wonderwonder on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:22PM (#28309853)

This is good advice for a lot of people but a lot of us have a family and cant get passed the idea of uprooting them for ourselves. I am absolutely fried but I cant pull my kids out of school and my wife away from her family. So I just trudge on to the bitter end.

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Re:Burning out and quitting by granshaw on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:28PM (#28307956)

Not if you want that level of comp

(Sorry if you were already aware and are saying more along the lines of "money isn't everything", but I wanted to make the point)

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Re:Burning out and quitting by yupper32 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:27PM (#28307941)

How much money is that worth to you?

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Re:Burning out and quitting by eropple on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:00PM (#28308285)

I own a house with a very comfortable mortgage payment less than a twenty minute drive or a 40 minute train ride from downtown Boston. I work from home on interesting problems and I have a great dog.

So not a whole lot.

There are better ways to live than sucking down cash to be miserable. You can't take it with you.

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