There’s no excitement in SWE work. Interviews are harder than the job itself. Non tech folks, PMs & Engineering manager roles are chill asf. Easy interview and easy exit opportunities One doesn’t even have to prepare anything. Just show up in the interview and BS. I don’t like tangible deliverables. It’s fun not having any tangible deliverables like code and dictate other people what to do. Get paycheck, coast and spend time in something I like. #google #amazon #meta
Sorry to break it to you but em interviews also include leetcode.
Does athenahealth ask LC questions?
Yes. LC style, though they're also experimenting with "practical" depending on the team/org
Stick it out until you can become an architect.
I wish to become SWE 😅 is LC enough?
Biggest lie from EM online. Have lot of EM friends who cracked Meta EM like a cakewalk
Why EM has system design interview. They are not doing any architecture or coding decisions, atleast in my company
What a jackass? EM jobs and interviews are chill? You should try to do one. Leetcode, system design, pj mgmt , and people mgmt; and so many idiotic ics looking dwn on you
Are you still leeching Elon ?
Try switching to EM role and interviewing with major companies and then telling us. Grass on other side looks green
Amen. I feel exactly the same, in my case : 14+ yoe, Sr eng, EU, low pay, treated like shit, terrible wlb and incoming on-call next week! But I am learning biology and chemistry whenever I can , and hopefully next year I will enroll in medical studies. And leave this no-life industry (tech).
Is medicine really that much better for WLB? How long will it take you to become certified for that? Get sponsored to work in US, save $$$, and in a few years you’ll have plenty to FIRE or at least take easy lowef paying jobs once back in EU
I am 38 and will be ~45 when I finish medical studies (they last 6 years in my country). I am so desperate to stop being SWE. I have practically zero life due to work and constant pressure to grind i.e. work 12-14 hours per day (10h normal job, plus 2-4h of self-learning). Used to waste life on leetcode, learning new programming languages etc. but now I allocate all my resources on biology and chemistry. I don't mind grinding as a doctor, at least my hard work will be appreciated in society and job stability, they also make more money on average. My pay as C++ dev is currently 100k $ but it is taxed by 50% so I am left with peanuts. Small apartments here cost 300-400k euro so I can't afford buying them. Not to mention starting a family, and most importantly stability! Thanks for advice, I appreciate it, but unfortunately nobody wanted me in the USA (applied for the past 10 years, and didn't receive a single reply due to lack of visa probably). I have a bigger chance of emigrating to USA if I am doctor, as I can't be outsourced then by cheap labour in other countries. Fyi, for the first years in the industry 2010-2015 I was making 12k $ net in EU, I could barely afford food and room in the outskirts of the city. I have wasted my youth for ultra low pay in SWE in EU, have zero respect in the society, and am just a cost to the company. I am done being a mule. Cheers
Haha, sure other roles have a super easy interview. You don’t have to prepare at all. Live in your delusional world
You have not even disclosed your company .. so scared 😱??
world is scary place with anonymous people maybe OP is only man at Undisclosed Corp.
You're burnt out my friend. And by the looks of this post it probably isn't the first time. It's not easy being in non-tech either. You are trading technical load for a political one. Address the burnout before making any big jumps. Medicine can be great but it's a huge undertaking even as a PA. Best of luck.
Do it then
Not easy to switch roles 😮💨
You sound like my ex. Complaining about everything.