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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I did! :) But I was really about to quit with a job lined up. I gave myself to the end of 2025 to get a new job. I had savings enough to hold me off, but it was one of those things where I was ready to even do freelance or cont
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I debated this, but the state of Google and YouTube together and certain things internally led me to just look for external opportunities. Probably would've been less stressful. Lol.
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I do agree to an extent. But getting datpoints from the other people in the company at those higher positions is important. Asking what can you do to improve and what you can do to make better impact. For my situation, many peo
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I'm touched by whoever posted this here. I hope people can read this and feel empowered to value themselves and try to make the impact they feel like they can. Happy holidays everyone! ♥
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. They do, even most recruiters require this before submitting for some of these jobs. Most hiring managers also filter that out by behavioral interviews and seeing how you handle team work, large scale work, and discussion upwar
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. Very good point. I am in a lucky position for retrospective, but I was also very much in the mood of "I'll take what i can get" lol
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I do want to mention that I don't exactly know the situation my manager was in, but he definitely did not make me feel dispensible personally. He and I had long conversations about life and work and our own lives and how t
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. You're telling me! :)
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. At the new job and yes, context switching has helped me a lot! Lol
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I worked at internships and smaller contracts in HS and college. But I've been coding since the start of highschool with coding competitions and jobs that helped my neighbors and my grandparents. Even in retrospect, even t
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I do feel incredibly luck in my position. This is a very specific perspective that I have, and I'm sorry that I may have seemed too entitled in this post. My whole goal was to point out to value yourself and don't let
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. I like statement. I think the biggest thing here is "not meeting this mark isn't a value statement" I had a lote of doubt about my own ability because I never got promoted. Was I not doing enough, am I not making
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by zhach 9mo ago
Author here. My manager and I discussed lengths about the capabilities they do, and it is just like this. It's not his fault at all. It's a game at the end of the day, and it's your choice whether or not you want to keep on p
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by zhach 9mo ago
Very much so. Author here. I wanted to do so much more than the box they allocated me in. Once I knew they were not going to let me grow from my box, then I left. Not the level I was worried about, but it's a language most people can u