Engineering Advice You Didn't Ask For S01E02 - You can't fire me! I quit!
Mar 29, 2022
Louie Bacaj, a former engineering team lead who now builds his own venture, shares insights on job quitting and counteroffers. Vic Vijayakumar, a staff engineer at Eventbrite, discusses compensation and the nuances of workplace culture. Thiago Ghisi, after a mini-retirement from big tech, offers thoughts on salary transparency and job pacing. Together, they delve into the motivations for changing jobs, the pitfalls of counteroffers, and the importance of understanding one’s worth in today’s job market.
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Pandemic Opened The Job Market
- The pandemic and remote hiring made interviewing and switching jobs far easier for many engineers.
- Salary transparency and recruiter activity amplified mobility across geography and companies.
Validate Salary Data From Multiple Sources
- Use Glassdoor, Levels.FYI and Blind as starting points but validate across sources.
- Talk to peers and use percentile analysis to filter out outliers before trusting numbers.
Culture Drives Resignation More Than Pay
- Many departures reflect longstanding cultural problems, not just pay gaps.
- Companies often respond by raising pay instead of fixing culture, which can fail long-term.
