Laid off at Amazon.Not going back to SWE. AMA
I got laid off in December. I want to keep my head high and have decided to retire just after 6 years in the industry. AMA
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Don't think bad of this industry just Because of Amazon. Amazon is known for having worst WLB and pip culture. There many companies much better than Amazon.
My friend, I have thrived at Amazon. Become a L6 in 4 years. Never worked more than 40 hours in the week. I love it here. All my skills I have learned here.
And the most important, I am a good engineer, I know it. I have made millions for the company.
People feel Amazon WLB is skewed coz they don’t know how to work or how to get work done. Amazon always treated me well.
I don’t think industry is bad, I am just moving out of it.
Love the counter-narrative here. Behold, a contrarian is born! ;)
Why retire? What factors have you considered? And which country?
I am retiring from this industry and will start something of my own.
I have considered that I have build enough for this industry with my knowledge, so I can create something for my self now.
So when you say retiring, you still plan to work but for your own company?
How much have you saved up to take such a risk?
Around $400k
Are in India or foreign?
I am trying to switch into PBC companies from a Bank. I am fresher. Shall I focus more on Leetcoding or focus more on building competence in a particular tech stack? I mostly do Python scripting at work. I want to do web development but I am not getting a chance to work on any web dev projects in my company. Will this hurt my chances of switching into PBC going ahead? As I don't have any hands on dev experience of building any consumer facing tech product at scale.
LC + end to end system building + leasing junior engineer, and the most important learn OE.
What do you mean by leasing junior engineer and learning OE? What's OE?
Wow this post is really inspiring!
Most of us (after 5-8 years in any industry) still only dream of doing it but the amount of uncertainty is still high in all domains outside of technical expertise, so we resist. Money can solve a lot of those problems. How decisive was your comp at Amazon in ensuring you have a stable enough nest-egg to start your own venture? Or did you have already have backing from friends/family etc? I guess what I'm trying to figure out is the size of raft you need to jump off the ship from into open waters and still survive. Congratulations on your decision btw.
Goddamit why does this app not have edit button
Many of the basic features like bookmarking a post or seeing ur liked post is also missing.
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