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The Scientific Shitlord
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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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The Scientific Shitlord
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Asshat Foler
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My team/product at work is a dumpster fire. We can’t keep top talent because management is awful and has stupid expectations on timelines, there’s really no growth opportunities at this point because we’ve spent the majority of the year (and still are) fixing a huge customer issue that we caused due to a dumb engineering design flaw that somehow got pushed out with a new feature due to management rushing it and having a potato of a senior engineer leading the effort.
All my high performing pals except for one have left the team. Idk what to do. The pay is lucrative and it’s solely the reason I’m here at this point. It was more tolerable when I had other high bar engineers working with me as it kept the morale up somewhat. Now it’s difficult to not sink into full demoralization due to all our senior engineers performing at junior eng level at best.
Florida isn’t really a tech hub outside the defense industry… Been there done that - pay sucks, tech is old, engineers aren’t motivated. Local pay would be at best a 50% pay cut.
The smart move would be to find another whale company that’s hiring remote and try to get in while remaining in Florida for expense purposes (Netflix, Airbnb, maybe MSFT) but I’m to the point I’d like to buy/build a house in the next few years and I’m just skeptical to do that on a remote job that pays 50%+ more than local - companies could RTO at any time and I really don’t want a scenario to happen to where I have to return to defense and take a huge pay cut due to being too geographically “established”. Maybe I’m just being noncommittal and overthinking it.
So idk. Just processing the situation for now… Going to try to stick where I am for tendies but I’d really like to find something I KINDA enjoy and I’m willing to take up to a 25% pay cut probably (assuming similar CoL as now).
The safest thing to do would either be keep trucking remote and not buying/building or move to a better tech hub.
Off the top of my head primary tech hubs would be Seattle, Bay Area, Denver, Boston, NYC, Austin. Secondary tech hubs (not as many lucrative paying companies) would be Dallas, LA, San Diego, Raleigh.
Of course there’s a trade off in CoL and I’d want to make sure the pay with CoL factored in is still “lucrative” and not just the equivalent to me staying in same geo local with lower paying job.
Anyone live in any of these places? If you could live in any tech hub city which would you choose?
All my high performing pals except for one have left the team. Idk what to do. The pay is lucrative and it’s solely the reason I’m here at this point. It was more tolerable when I had other high bar engineers working with me as it kept the morale up somewhat. Now it’s difficult to not sink into full demoralization due to all our senior engineers performing at junior eng level at best.
Florida isn’t really a tech hub outside the defense industry… Been there done that - pay sucks, tech is old, engineers aren’t motivated. Local pay would be at best a 50% pay cut.
The smart move would be to find another whale company that’s hiring remote and try to get in while remaining in Florida for expense purposes (Netflix, Airbnb, maybe MSFT) but I’m to the point I’d like to buy/build a house in the next few years and I’m just skeptical to do that on a remote job that pays 50%+ more than local - companies could RTO at any time and I really don’t want a scenario to happen to where I have to return to defense and take a huge pay cut due to being too geographically “established”. Maybe I’m just being noncommittal and overthinking it.
So idk. Just processing the situation for now… Going to try to stick where I am for tendies but I’d really like to find something I KINDA enjoy and I’m willing to take up to a 25% pay cut probably (assuming similar CoL as now).
The safest thing to do would either be keep trucking remote and not buying/building or move to a better tech hub.
Off the top of my head primary tech hubs would be Seattle, Bay Area, Denver, Boston, NYC, Austin. Secondary tech hubs (not as many lucrative paying companies) would be Dallas, LA, San Diego, Raleigh.
Of course there’s a trade off in CoL and I’d want to make sure the pay with CoL factored in is still “lucrative” and not just the equivalent to me staying in same geo local with lower paying job.
Anyone live in any of these places? If you could live in any tech hub city which would you choose?
Siliconemelons
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150-175k at Draper, Raytheon or Honeywell and just do nothing for 2 years before they notice and cut ya while you get everything in order. Lol
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Asshat Foler
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Man I can’t go back to defense. It’s a pigeonhole and where good engineers go to die.
Some defense comps are decent like in Colorado I’ve heard they can get in the 175-200k range. Not bad at all for defense.
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Oh shut the fuck up asshat.
You getting a clearance is as likely as ossoi not rubbing peanut butter on his cock and having fido blow him
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TJT
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Hell yeah brother.A brilliant engineer i know got the same shit. Staff instead of architect. I even pushed his CTO to make him an architect.
Not to make you jelly but I'm about to be promoted to staff architect
Not jelly really. I'm a patient man.
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Palum
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Does anyone have an employee who has insecurity issues? I have one who is always concerned with shit like "oh did the CEO say anything about my work performance?" Not in a self aggrandizing way, but worried that people are secretly going to get rid of him or something (as if). I don't know what to do with the guy sometimes. I can only reassure him so many times before I start to get annoyed and it frustrates me that I react that way, but pulling that shit at 8:30 AM while I'm trying to get caught up and get work done is just aggravating.
darkmiasma
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Is he otherwise productive? I have a subordinate who is a paranoid debbie downer. He sees regular quarterly meetings with executives as opportunities for downsizing. Unscheduled meeting = walking papers.
The irony is that I have been trying to fire his retarded ass for a while now. Beyond the moping, he's a moron and unmotivated. Anything that requires a modicum of problem solving turns in an excuse to look productive without actually being productive.
My boss won't let me get rid of him because he does begrudging QA triage work that no one else wants to. He's shit at that too, but at least he does it.
If your subordinate is anything like the guy I described above, get rid of him. These types don't improve. They're scarred for life(I'm betting he has past trauma with layoffs) and can't seem to get over it.
Palum
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No he's good. It's just insecurity issues. There's a lot of dumb shit that rolls through with helping on projects and then they figure it out and go on their merry way, so whenever there's not a crisis he feels like he's being sidelined because he isn't getting dragged into other shit.
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He still might have past trauma wrt layoffs. I've had my own problems with that myself and it took a while for me to get over them. I'm not actually quite sure how, tbh. How long has he been in his current position?
Palum
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Seems like long enough to establish reliable behavior patterns wrt whether his job is truly in jeopardy or not. Got any "career path" stuff at your company? Maybe make him an architect in name only
Noodleface
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Re: architect, I'm in the same boat. My direct manager even says im the project architect. There's 0 chance in hell I get an architect title.
Things on my project are absolutely wild. I don't have direct reports, but I am the tech lead on the project. Im allegedly getting between 1-3 engineers. Today some random person threw an engineer at us without giving us any heads up and didn't tell my boss.
I also heard an engineer cry on a call today again because theyve run us too thin.
I'm just kind of at a loss for words with how this place is managed.
Insert im tired boss gif
Things on my project are absolutely wild. I don't have direct reports, but I am the tech lead on the project. Im allegedly getting between 1-3 engineers. Today some random person threw an engineer at us without giving us any heads up and didn't tell my boss.
I also heard an engineer cry on a call today again because theyve run us too thin.
I'm just kind of at a loss for words with how this place is managed.
Insert im tired boss gif
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