Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
by scarface_74 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:16PM
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I will be 50 in June.
I got my first job in BigTech at 46 - working at AWS in Professional Services
When I got Amazoned last year, I had three offers within three weeks.
One of those offers was from a former coworker who is now a director at a well known public company. It would have paid about $50K more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs at AWS. I didn’t want the stress.
The other offer was for a “staff architect” position at the company that acquired the company I worked for before going to AWS.
The third and the offer I did take was a for a senior full time position at a consulting company that should lead to staff position as we grow the AWS specialty that I know inside out from working with the team.
Unless I’m completely misreading the market - and I seriously doubt I am - there is no reason that if I cared to I couldn’t increase my total compensation by 30-40% inflation adjusted over the next few years
I got my first job in BigTech at 46 - working at AWS in Professional Services
When I got Amazoned last year, I had three offers within three weeks.
One of those offers was from a former coworker who is now a director at a well known public company. It would have paid about $50K more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs at AWS. I didn’t want the stress.
The other offer was for a “staff architect” position at the company that acquired the company I worked for before going to AWS.
The third and the offer I did take was a for a senior full time position at a consulting company that should lead to staff position as we grow the AWS specialty that I know inside out from working with the team.
Unless I’m completely misreading the market - and I seriously doubt I am - there is no reason that if I cared to I couldn’t increase my total compensation by 30-40% inflation adjusted over the next few years