IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

alavaz

alavaz

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I find myself valuing job satisfaction over money these days. Or at least that's what I am telling myself lol.

I am 100% dead sure (not shooting for a weird brag here - I promise) I could probably get close to 100k annual more than what I make now, plus all of the stock wizbang shit. The kicker is that these jobs would probably be less demanding in some senses than the one I have right now.

But, I've been here for coming up on 10 years, switched companies 3 different times to stay here and it's the only place I've ever worked that I consistently look forward to going to work.

I even considered going GS at one point to not have to do the company dance when contracts run out but that would've been way too much of a pay cut.
 
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Khane

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Job satisfaction is *almost* the only thing I care about now after the last ~8 years at the company I just quit. I was with them for a total of almost 18 years.

It went from being the best job I ever had (when it was in startup mode) to the worst over the last 8 years (mergers, private equity buyout, private equity sale to current ownership).

I left in 2013 to go to another interesting company then came back in 2015 chasing money which is a major regret I have now. I can probably also afford to be typing all of this and might think differently if I hadn't been making what I did.

As of now though, I'd definitely take a job that paid significantly less than what I just left for job security and interesting work without the stress.
 
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TJT

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Hostile pajeetification is soul draining. My wife left her last job for essentially the same reason you did. No private sale or anything the owners just hired a streetshitter CTO who did the usual. Fired a bunch of key leaders from the startup days and replaced them with more streetshitters then offloaded tons of production operations to IBM streetshitter consultants who were, purely coincidentally, longtime friends of his.

That went on for a year or two and nearly everyone in my wife's whole organization in the company (manufacturing technology/process control stuff) were replaced with streetshitters. Quality and issues increased so dramatically that the CEO finally took notice and eventually fired the CTO and a number of the leaders he hired. But it took the guy years to even notice it. As the CEO was the same guy who founded the company he thankfully has the ability to fix the situation but it will take a long time I guess. The streetshitters caused numerous plant shutdowns by pushing faulty code and overriding process control tests in their manufacturing lab. Once they removed all of the original crowd they had nobody else to throw blame on and couldn't kiss ass saying they were actually the ones fixing the problems created by the inexperienced team who created the entire system in the first place.

I can only assume the CEO fell for the shameless dick sucking pajeets are known for and became convinced that the next huge influx of bucks required him to get rid of the people he trusted when the company was just getting started. That they were somehow in his way when it came to getting to the next big milestone.

I am really glad that my new job is a domestic logistics company and there are almost no streetshitters in the entire organization. Just a token few.
 
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ShakyJake

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Speaking of pajeetification, our company got on a kick of hiring Indian contractors about a year ago. It is abundantly clear they are adding no value but they insist on keeping them around. It defies all reason.
 
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