Why AMA?- New to GV. I see potential here; trying to gauge audience and perhaps I can talk about a thing or two; can definitely learn from ya’al otherwise.
Primer Qs (from some successful AMAs outside of GV)- What tech has better future? Is Ai going to kill our jobs? How to increase Tc 5x, 10x, 20x+? Startups vs big corps?
Background, Tc stuff- Decade+ yoe Started with <10Lpa. Crossed >10Lpm. Life is fun and no amount of money is enough. I’ve seen it firsthand that the investments and luxuries grow at far bigger rate than your comp, Can’t complain though.
Disagree with your last 2 lines...
Minimalism is the key to happiness, Period.
Qs - As a LinkedIn employee, don't you feel bad that LinkedIn doesn't have monetary benifit plan for creators like meta n Google?
That would just make LinkedIn even more spammy than it is now
Hard disagree. Maximalism can also very well be the key to success.
You cannot (and should not) hold the view that if you like minimalism, it naturally becomes the only winning strategy.
I am not entirely sure if I understand the complexity of your Q. Lin is basically a job board and extremely successful at being that. All the Feed, shorts etc are just a part of session extensions to incentivise folks to stay on the app + ads pays bills!
I am neutral to the sentiment that content creators aren’t incentivised in monetary terms but I reckon most folks use Lin as an extension to their brand creation and crux stays on YT.
Answering some common Qs.
How to increase comp by 5x, 10x+
(Here’s what worked for me. Its not guaranteed to work for everyone. If you are clear on responsibilities and are willing to put the hard work, I’hd wager that 💰 will just follow you)
Next 3y, amplify the learnings. You are a Sde2 now.
Check for opportunities to grow fresh grads/interns as successful sde1s. Its a very nurturing experience.
Learn office dynamics.
Next 3y you are now a Senior engg/ sde3.
Exec communication is a thing now. Stakeholder management is a thing now. You’ll be responsible for delivering a sufficiently big project. Think about its operability, manageability, performance etc.
Decade+
You are a Staff engg / sde4 now.
Your main goal is to grow your team, make important bets with your Director, fine tune OKRs, foresee potential misalignments, this is your opportunity to demonstrate leadership. You are DRI for a chunky project and you are doing tech reviews for your fellow Staffs, Seniors and Juniors.
I'll add a few more things.
Have role models to look up to early in your career. Work with them to draft a growth plan for yourself. Keep yourself and your manager accountable. You should drive career your growth discussions
As you grow through levels, your bandwidth becomes a blocker for your company/org. Learn to delegate effectively and learn to say no
ALWAYS be prepared for interviews. Make a switch as soon as you feel there's no growth for you. This is by far the fastest way to double/triple your comp
Be a keen observer. See what others around you do well and assimilate whatever makes sense to you
Focus on developing skills, compensation should be side effect of your talent
Beyond all this luck matters a lot. Things won't be in your favor all the time. Your effort and attitude is the only thing you control
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I used to date a girl in your Bellandur office, she ghosted me saying mom won't allow 🙄. What is this behaviour?
A very general question, didn't you get bored with doing the same thing over and over.
I get not all projects are same, not all technologies are same but the gist remains the same.
Didn't you get bored ?
What keeps you motivated (given you have now earned a decent amount of money to pursue something else if you want) ?
On the contrary, Iv been fortunate to wear a lot of caps 🧢
Been in a stack much closer to metal and interfaced with C++, been full stack so I got AngularJs and Django api surface, been in proprietary language stack like C#,
Been in Python side, as well as Java
From Json + Http world, I moved to Grpc + Protobuffs
Its been fun!
For a senior engineer mostly working with JSON + HTTP, how does one move out of that mindset and work on these new protocols?
Tips to grow quickly for a fresher?
i am a fresher too (2023 grad) who works at a startup. to me growing in the industry currently feels like becoming a dsa geek which am currently not. but i think i would need to start doing it. also further down the line as my yoe piles up, i would need also need to do lld. would be great to see how others look at this.
@BigCats I see a lot of people say that DSA is not required anymore. Is that true?
What kind of changes you had to make with regards to tech stack or core competency to go from 10 LPA to 10 LPM? What someone who is currently in your shoes of <10LPA should do to reach at 10LPM? Some tips which could be generalized and really helped you.
Iv tried to answer this in a separate thread 🧵
Overall, the more you aggressively chase big comp, more it becomes unlikely to get there. Unless you are doing the hard work in filling the skills gap.
No shortcuts that I know of.
@annunaki Answer me m'lord!🙇🏻
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