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edit:Regardless of where you work, developing your skills remains important. for example open ai or Interview Man ai Just like you did, using a tool that helps you prepare better for any interview
The situation: I've been in an FDP at a Fortune 100 company for about 20 months, and my performance has been strong.
My manager has put a huge amount of time, effort, and political capital into me. The team is basically just her and me. She put me in front of senior leaders, gave me valuable work, pushed hard for my development, helped me get an early promotion before the next rotation, speaks highly of me all the time, gave me stretch work to build new skills, made sure I had a seat in key meetings, coached me through messy stakeholder issues, and a lot more. Honestly, she has been excellent.
The hard part: my entire department is being moved to the Philippines. I was asked to stay several extra weeks to help with the handoff. The director also created a specific role for my fourth rotation, which hasn't happened for anyone else in the program. That made me feel like it was a clear sign that they trust me. At the end of this week, I'm going to tell her that I accepted another offer: an 85%+ raise, a much bigger title, at a larger global company. Honestly, I probably would have needed another 5 or 6 years to reach that level here.
My question for you: if you were in her place, after investing all of that in someone, pushing for their promotion, laying out a path for them, and then they came and said they were leaving in the middle of a very important transition, where it's basically just the two of you carrying everything...
What would genuinely be going through your mind? Frustration? Disappointment? Respect for the move? Would you feel like it came out of nowhere, or would you see it as the obvious logical choice? Would it change how you viewed them afterward? And what would you want them to say or do so the conversation doesn't come across badly?
I'm not looking for reassurance. I genuinely want to understand the manager's side before I go into this conversation.
edit: I appreciate all of your comments ,I told her I still also have to leave I even told her about a friend to replace me and gives her all the information , my friend is quite shy but very talented she even use that interviewman people talk about here it helps her a lot , grateful for my past and excited for the future
what do you think ?
I'm a software developer, and I was recently told that my role will be eliminated in about 4 months after a company reorg. I know I'm supposed to use this notice period to look for another dev job with good pay, and I've already polished up my resume and updated LinkedIn.
But every time I open a job board and try to apply for roles in my field, I feel like I'm hitting a wall. Like... I'm not sure I want to keep doing this?
It's a strange position to be in, because I understand how lucky I am to live in a time and place where I can earn a living this way. I'm not trying to say that writing code in an air-conditioned room is some terrible hardship. But it's become harder to shake the feeling that a lot of the "problems" I'm paid to fix exist in the first place because of a business process, or a subscription model, or an internal metric, or a product decision that created them to begin with.
I've spent most of the last 9 years solving artificial problems, and when I look back, the last job that felt clearly real was an entry-level customer-facing job where I was making about 1/5 of what I make now. I know not all software is like this, and I know meaningless work isn't exclusive to programming. But honestly, this whole bullshit jobs thing seems to show up a lot more when your entire professional life happens through a laptop.
Why are we building all this stuff, and whose life is actually better because of it?
The whole thing is a bit strange.
I mean, you'd think that when labor is scarce, salaries should increase. But no. All I'm seeing is companies slowing down hiring and acting like it's our fault.
The market isn't correcting itself at all. It's very strange.