11-10-2019, 11:52 PM
I'd take getting laid off over this past year lol. Think the grand total between paying my old job back for that useless class and breaking my lease in Richmond I'm out ~$7500. Capital One sent me a $5,000 bill for my sign on bonus. They're probably never going to see that if it's only going to effect my chance at getting a job with them in the future. All to end up right back where I started with "senior" added to my title and a 4% raise (lol). Worked my ass off for a 3 month paycut, $12,000 in bills and -20 hours of vacation time accrual.
I'm salty but I'm still going to do it again next year because I'm also crazy. Pretty sure I can clear the Amazon Frontend Engineer interview because it's more "build me a picture carousel" and less "design a back end for all of twitter in 30 minutes". They also recently made the really smart move to start paying their frontend people the same as the backend teams so that's cool and very much what I wanna be doing. Ideally I want to move into an L5 SDM spot since apparently those are almost exclusively internal hires. We'll see, wish me luck. Can't be worse than what went down this year.
I'm salty but I'm still going to do it again next year because I'm also crazy. Pretty sure I can clear the Amazon Frontend Engineer interview because it's more "build me a picture carousel" and less "design a back end for all of twitter in 30 minutes". They also recently made the really smart move to start paying their frontend people the same as the backend teams so that's cool and very much what I wanna be doing. Ideally I want to move into an L5 SDM spot since apparently those are almost exclusively internal hires. We'll see, wish me luck. Can't be worse than what went down this year.