Burnt out at big tech. Should I switch to a lower paying company? Or just wait it out?

I have 4 YOE at big tech and I'm burnt out. I do my best at my team, but the achievements are not celebrated, on the other hand mistakes (like code mistakes that had to be rolled back/patched) are heavily scrutinized. Coworkers with decades of experience grill my PRs on big and small things. I've been verbally warned about my performance.

I don't know what to do from here. I think I have the capability to grind interviews, I did it to get here, but I'm too burnt out to. I can't change teams.

I think realistically I have these options:

  1. Still do my best at work, try to study for interviews whenever possible. Hopefully to survive the performance warning into stability here.

  2. Give 70-80% effort at work, focus on interview prep to my best abilities. Will probably get PIPed but might be a delayed process.

  3. Give minimal effort at work and focus full force on interviewing. Might only last 1-3 months.

  4. Switch to a smaller company like Walmart, Target, Capital One and see if I can chill for a bit?

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u/WallabyBeginning9443 — 17 days ago

Reddit knows I have a dog

Definitely continuing to see ad targeting improvements. Also, I remember a year or two ago there were only random small advertisements, now I see many big companies in ads. As you would imagine it's hard to target if there's not a big pool of ads to choose from in the first place.

u/WallabyBeginning9443 — 21 days ago

Figo vs Pets Best vs Lemonade vs Self Pay for gold retriever puppy

I'm looking for a policy mainly for catastrophe protection that are in the thousands/$10k+, so I'm looking for a max deductible, 90%, $30k+ policy.

My main concern is insurance that raises price to unsustainable levels as the pup ages (like $200+) and I can't even switch because preexisting conditions.

narrowed it down to 3:

Pets Best: 90%, unlimited, $1000: $38. Suspiciously cheap, their app was broken for a while. I've seen reports of people saying they raise premiums unethically, so leaning no.

Figo: 90%, unlimited, $750: $61. I like the app and policy. But it's a equity firm like PB, so unsure if my worry will come true down the road.

Lemonade: 90%, $50k, $750: $91. Pricey but I've only read good things about them. Public company which is at least slightly better than private equity firm imo (bad reputation = loss of profits long term = pressure from shareholders)

I'm slightly leaning towards lemonade as it seems better long term. Thoughts?

For background we have a golden retriever puppy, he's 10 weeks old now. Mom and dad are both healthy and no genetic diseases were passed and had all good OFA certs.

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u/WallabyBeginning9443 — 2 months ago

[TOMT] video of someone being attacked by a goose/duck/some kind of bird and a golden retriever was dragging them away from the owner

As title. When I saw that video, comments were praising how soft of a mouth the dog has and that the goose was lucky

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u/WallabyBeginning9443 — 2 months ago

"M/A type of deal" speculation

spez mentioned that these AI deals are "almost like M/A deals," what do you guys think that means?

It reminds me of the OpenAI and AMD deal, where OpenAI pays AMD for chips, but also takes a stake in AMD.

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u/WallabyBeginning9443 — 3 months ago