Feels like I’ve sort of drifted away from Silicon Valley culturally over the last couple of years.
I still enjoy the actual tech part of Tech, but no longer closely track the scene around it. I often find I’m out of the loop on a lot of stuff people expect me to know.
Yeah but lifers are a fraction. It’s fine to do but many don’t actually make the cut even for that. It’s a pretty brutal career track.
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Brutal if you expect to stay in hard tech (strictly engineering) your entire career. Most end up going into management, which takes some of the pressure off and can help avoid burnout.
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I'll tell you what's really brutal: changing jobs at age 40 or over and going through 5-8 multi-site, multi-interviewer all day leetcode whiteboard challenges *per company* with only a short break for lunch.
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