Re:8 Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
by scarface74 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:36PM
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There are 2.7 million developers in the US. Most don’t work at a tier 1 tech company.
My original story said nothing about where I work. I was originally referring to my process to get a software development job from 1996-2018.
I only brought up where I work now when someone brought up the r/cscareerquestions type reply of “TC”.
I am very sincere about my lack of desire to ever be a software engineer for a large company. I would give up my current compensation and jump back over to the enterprise dev/architect side of compensation before I ever did that.
Again, I already had the big house in the burbs, retirement savings, etc before AWS ever reached out to me.
I know for a fact that I could call up a few former managers who now work at different companies and they would give me a job faster than I could say “I am looking for…”
My original story said nothing about where I work. I was originally referring to my process to get a software development job from 1996-2018.
I only brought up where I work now when someone brought up the r/cscareerquestions type reply of “TC”.
I am very sincere about my lack of desire to ever be a software engineer for a large company. I would give up my current compensation and jump back over to the enterprise dev/architect side of compensation before I ever did that.
Again, I already had the big house in the burbs, retirement savings, etc before AWS ever reached out to me.
I know for a fact that I could call up a few former managers who now work at different companies and they would give me a job faster than I could say “I am looking for…”