I have found that comp alone is not enough to make up for a miserable job. I hated every minute I worked at AWS to the point I couldn’t fake it and it was remote.
When I got Amazoned, one of my former coworkers was a director at a well known public non tech company and was going to create a position for me to be over their cloud migration and strategy. It was going to pay around $50K more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs my last year at AWS. I really hate leading migrations and infrastructure projects. I specialize in cloud + app dev consulting even though it pays less outside of working at Amazon and Google.
Speaking of Google, I also have/had a better than even chance of working there (GCP consulting division) making close to six figures more than I make now. But I’m not even tempted between my hated for working at large companies and working in an office
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I have found that comp alone is not enough to make up for a miserable job. I hated every minute I worked at AWS to the point I couldn’t fake it and it was remote.
When I got Amazoned, one of my former coworkers was a director at a well known public non tech company and was going to create a position for me to be over their cloud migration and strategy. It was going to pay around $50K more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs my last year at AWS. I really hate leading migrations and infrastructure projects. I specialize in cloud + app dev consulting even though it pays less outside of working at Amazon and Google.
Speaking of Google, I also have/had a better than even chance of working there (GCP consulting division) making close to six figures more than I make now. But I’m not even tempted between my hated for working at large companies and working in an office
I agree