[anonytrary]

As someone who used to work at LittleBigCo, I think this beats having great ideas and then having them given to people who are in the inner circle with the founders. At least BigCo isn't super fratty like LittleBigCo tends to be. Or I could be wrong, please tell me if I'm wrong. I want to be wrong. Lots of LittleBigCo's these days are pushing overhyped products and are mostly just having fun with corporate money.

[whateveracct]

oh i agree - that's why i left a streak of startup jobs to get paid more to do less at BigCo.

BigCo isn't fratty at all in my limited experience. Be professional, follow whatever 10 commandments the C-suite prints out & laminates for you, and sell yourself once a year in self-review and you'll win out and barely work if you're remote.

Smaller companies have very little org-chart structure - it's a single small tree. There's no equilibrium in the org chart. So a couple bad actors can easily ruin it all. And they did at every startup I was at.

My play is to collect checks and eventually make art with my computer science experience for the rest of my life.

[anonytrary]

You sound like me. Cheers. I hope it works out for us.

[atypicbiped]

Same here. Does anyone you work with know your plan? If not, how do you deal with the loneliness?

[whateveracct]

I'm married and have pets :shrug:

Use your free time post-covid to build up something worthwhile. A cat is a good start!

Love for its own sake is more than enough. But it takes a suspension of disbelief that modernity may have beat out of you.

[__blockcipher__]

> Use your free time post-covid to build up something worthwhile. A cat is a good start!

And to take it further, even if you’re one of those (many) people who thinks the sky is constantly falling with COVID...there is still no reason to wait until “post-COVID”. If you want to build a skillset start working towards that now, not tomorrow

[whateveracct]

you're right. idk why i said post-covid at all. i know i'm not waiting!

[atypicbiped]

I’m 22 and a senior+ developer at a BigCo. I optimized my whole life to be able to escape from the big capitalist machinery as quickly and cleanly as possible. Maybe a cat’s a good idea to get me through the next couple years.. but honestly a pet rat seems like a lot less commitment given they live 2-3 years yet are still affectionate creatures.

[whateveracct]

Love is love and pets are pets!

[whateveracct]

> Cheers

You too! Let this be a lucrative but minor (ergo efficient) period of our lives :beers:

[redisman]

What do you mean by BigCo? Fortune 500 non-tech? Faang?

[whateveracct]

That fits the bill without giving me away, yeah :)

[dbancajas]

can you say how much salary? base/yearly RSU/bonus?