[irrational]

Go to work for a Fortune 100 company. In my experience, the salary isn’t as good, the food and massages aren’t free, but the work life balance is much better. I never feel stress. I enjoy the work. I like my coworkers. I’m the complete opposite of burned out.

[jokethrowaway]

You may have a similar experience in a FAANG that is more chilled.

My friends at Amazon are killing themselves.

The ones at Google, well... I'm impressed by how little they can do.

I guess it's also heavily management dependant. If some middle manager doesn't give a crap and somehow can get away with it those below can slack as much.

[chii]

if the cause of burnout is from overwork, then instead of moving, i'd consider part-time (say, 3-4 day work week).

If the cause of burnout is disillusionment - aka, you are such a small cog and your work doesn't seem to matter, despite how hard you actually worked - then moving to a different, but still big company, will not change that. Startups, imho, is where to move to, in order to feel impacts.

If the cause of burnout is project-based - aka, you just don't enjoy or feel the project is worthwhile - switching companies might work (a different project).

There's many other causes of burnout, and each will require individual solutions - there's no one size fits all.

[silveroriole]

From experience, 4 day week doesn’t really help. You end up doing just as much work as people on 5 days but getting paid less, getting overlooked because you’re less present, and consequently feeling resentful AND overworked. A 4 day week is great for other reasons though.

[chii]

> You end up doing just as much work as people on 5 days

either you're doing too much work, or everybody else is doing too little. Cut back.

As for promotions, if you intend to do 4 days, prepare to face zero career progression in the same company - unless you're extraordinary and indispensable. But this is the price you pay for a 4 day at this point.

[anonreeeeplor]

Not a bad play. The companies that are below the top 15 are all starving for talent and have way lower stress and often far better work life balance and not terrible pay.

The top companies are political nightmares because the pressure and competition levels make them insane.