[Long post warning] I've 4YOE and I'm thinking of quitting my job due to various reasons, but I don't have any other offers in hand. I'm preparing well for the interviews, and have prepared DSA properly till now. But the system design bit is still pending, so I haven't applied anywhere yet. Due to work, I'm not able to focus on preparation and give time to it. I'm having just 3-4 hours of sleep on a daily basis as I'm literally grinding on the preparation side, but it requires more effort than this. My family has started worrying about my health and, after the EY incident, they are asking me to take my time and just go through the hassle of work, or quit my job if it's too much to handle.
I'm willing to quit my job right now, and I'm confident that I'll get an offer within 3 months, but I can't pull the plug on this, considering a hell lot of uncertainties in the market. I currently have enough savings to stay in Bangalore for at least 6-8 months. But still, taking this step seems pretty huge for me since it's my first job, and I've seen my parents'faces whenever I talk about quitting, it's not good.
Now coming to the reasons for quitting. I'm not sure where to start, and I'll not go into details. I just don't like to work here anymore. For the last 2 years, I've been working on shitty things which have stunted by growth professionally. The management is shit, and all they care about is deliverables and visibility. I've been a Java backend developer for the last 2.5 years, and before that I was a Data Engineer. I switched my team in the same company 2.5 years ago because I wanted to work on backend development and not on data pipelines. But for the majority of time I've only worked on data pipelines while being a Java developer. I've asked them a number of times in the last 2 years to put me where I have skills and interests, and every time all they do is make false promises of "good work" coming in the following quarter. I was willing to give my 200% into my work if I like it, but they just wanted me to work on whatever gets assigned to me and find my interests there itself. It's been going on like this for 2 years. Recently I had a connect with my manager, and he mentioned that the kind of work that I'm looking for won't be coming in this team, so either I should go to the other team (which is even worse in management), or I should just go. What's making me go mad is, it took them 2 fking years to tell me this? I got to know that they were not willing to let me go bcuz I was a good resource for them and, considering my experience with Data Engineering before, they were assigning me such tasks because I could finish those early without anyone's help. Other developers would have to learn about it first and then deliver. So, all this time it was actually possible for them to put me somewhere else, but they didn't. Now I've lost all my trust in this company, in my managers and the whole management. It's your job ffs to use me as a resource where I want to excel so that I stay highly motivated and productive. That'll benefit us both. But all they care about is how much I deliver and how much I make myself visible to the leadership for my promotion.
I've been depressed now, and don't have any will to go to the office and work there. I've stopped doing everything that a normal human being does to enjoy his day to day life, with a mindset that I'll do it later after I switch. I don't know what to do.
resigned a month back without any offers, 4 yoe. getting Recruiter calls almost everyday. trust me if you are skilled the market is okay to take you in. ps. i am from tier 3 college
Where are you applying
mostly linkedin, instahyre and company careers portal
Preparing but not appearing for Interviews is one of the biggest mistakes people do. Just start appearing for Interviews, why have you not done yet! Many times, a few companies take easy interviews and you make it through without even much effort. Then you won't have to put this kind of post.
Without offer in hand, it is not advisable to resign. If pressure is too much, just take a few days of leave and think calmly. If your preparation is so good and you are so confident, you shouldn’t have any issue getting an offer by now. Also keeping in mind that many organisations take online/vc interviews these days. So getting a random offer is not that big deal. You should take any silly offer and then resign.
I've not yet started on the System Design side yet, but my DSA preparation is good now. I'll start applying anyways now bcuz I don't have any other options left.
Take care of your health my dude, nothing is more important 🫂
Slow down, use your leaves, have a change environment, go visit your family. Rejuvenate.
Start "quiet quitting", prepare a list of places you wish to apply to. Start interviewing one at a time, preferably the ones you least wish to apply to first. Gain that fresh interview experience, see what's new for your role. Quit if it's too stressful. Continue interviews, and you'll get there.
Been in your situation, quit from toxic place without offer, took a month or two to just recover. Another two to start afresh. It works out 🤞
I've been quiet quitting for a long time now. I'm not able to even think about my personal health these days bcuz of the frustration and stress due to the urgency of switching jobs. I should start applying now, and that's the only solution I can think of.
Try outside India. You will get good offer only you need to invest for documentation. India is not good now when big people like infy founder recommends 70 hrs per week.
Can you elaborate on the documentation part please
Chk with her and proceed only when u r convinced
Just trust your instincts. I did the same back in April and things just fall in place. Mentally I was so fatigued. Anyway be the judge for yourself and evaluate and take decisions
I've almost a month of leaves with me. Will check with my manager if I can take it all at once. If not, will quit.
Even though the same, mine reason was a little different, but it was the place where I don't want to work, but now seems more struggle in finding other.. Hoping for the best!
Slow down, Take enough time and recharge yourself.
U hate ur job so much u are willing to quit without even finding the offer letter. Yah I have done that too. It is not too uncommon but most people don't quit before finding a good offer still. It is hard but believe me. Keep trying and find an offer from a better organization for urself moneywise and non moneywise as well. Which can take time so I suggest make a plan to doing this and do it while working in EY.
Don't quit. Don't work too hard in your company. Slow down delivery. Let them fire you if they want.
Use your office time to study for interviews, Keep applying, appearing for new job interviews.
Quit when you have any offer that you may want to join.
Within the notice period, stop working, focus on getting more more offers, negotiate well.
Yes right now doing exactly the same, but I'm finding it difficult to stall them everyday. Skipping work which I only will have to do eventually is stressing me out now. But yeah, don't have any other options right now, so let that suck.
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