I've always been curious about working at one of these companies.
I believe if I set the goal of getting hired at one of these places, I would probably be able to get a job:
- 10 years professional programming experience
- half-life, Quake, Starcraft, Warcraft II modding experience growing up
- Avid reader ( ~50+ books/yr )
- tons of self practice and continuing education. I just like learning new things and find programming fun
- Have had success in most of the roles I have occupied
- have a personality people make friends with
- edit: Also a computer science degree from a good college!
But anymore I just do not want to work that hard. I've been doing the start-up thing for a few years now. I am TIRED. I am BURNED OUT. I am not particularly interested in writing GoLang or Python to sell ads. Lately I have been trying to think of a part-time or EASIER job I can phone in on with my programming chops so I can go home and hack on my side projects.[0]
I want to go home, read, work out, cook dinner with my partner, hack on toys and open source stuff. I do not want to empty my tank every day working for the man. How hard do these places work you? What do I actually get out of it, other than learning how to write websites and a good salary and perks? Where do these jobs fall in the reward/bullshit ratio?
0: Which are probably better career development than fullstack/devops work anyway...
I work at a medium sized public sv company that’s competitive with the ones discussed here and work life balance is amazing, things are very relaxed and definitely don’t feel burnt out at all.
People very regularly wfh for all sorts of reasons, time off whenever you want that people actually take, probably a little bit less then a 40 hour work week and every sprint my manager is usually making the case for how we don’t want to take on too much or over commit ourselves.
I’m thinking about leaving because frankly it’s maybe a little too slow and relaxed, I sort of think I work well in a more intense environment, but if that’s what you’re looking for I can pass your resume on to recruiting haha
But not every company is the same, and not every team in the company is the same and not every project is the same. I don't think you can generalize the working hours of an entire company filled with 100k employees.*
*With the exception of Apple. I hear most employees there do work long hours and sometimes even weekends.. but again, depends on the team.
I believe if I set the goal of getting hired at one of these places, I would probably be able to get a job:
- 10 years professional programming experience
- half-life, Quake, Starcraft, Warcraft II modding experience growing up
- Avid reader ( ~50+ books/yr )
- tons of self practice and continuing education. I just like learning new things and find programming fun
- Have had success in most of the roles I have occupied
- have a personality people make friends with
- edit: Also a computer science degree from a good college!
But anymore I just do not want to work that hard. I've been doing the start-up thing for a few years now. I am TIRED. I am BURNED OUT. I am not particularly interested in writing GoLang or Python to sell ads. Lately I have been trying to think of a part-time or EASIER job I can phone in on with my programming chops so I can go home and hack on my side projects.[0]
I want to go home, read, work out, cook dinner with my partner, hack on toys and open source stuff. I do not want to empty my tank every day working for the man. How hard do these places work you? What do I actually get out of it, other than learning how to write websites and a good salary and perks? Where do these jobs fall in the reward/bullshit ratio?
0: Which are probably better career development than fullstack/devops work anyway...