Learn from my mistakes. I thought I was doing myself a favor and being proactive, but I ended up being overworked with nothing to show for it. I got plenty of promises that my work will pay off for me, but nothing ever materialized. I quit last week and I can't stop kicking myself for being such an id--t for years. Again, don't make the same mistakes I did and end up doing your boss' job for him for no good reason.
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In last team: Initially 1. Then 2. In my new team: tending to 1 for now. You won't know if 1 or 2 unless you are in the new team for 2 years or more (doesn't matter which company). But there is no excuse being stuck in 2 longer than that - employment is at will. Even if 2, a small reorg can bring it back to 1.
I've worked in 3 companies across more than one team.
You have to make it fun. You have to laugh, otherwise you'd cry. There are 2 types of Q employees:
- Those who have figured "it" out, that the whole thing is just one big con game, of making PowerPoints, repeating buzzwords from already-published papers, making silly, meaningless demos, so at the end of the day the SVP can dance his yearly show-and-tell. If you make your boss look good, you have a 50-50 chance of a promo every 4 years. Not great odds, but better than zero %.
- Those who haven't figured it out, take things seriously, work hard, and think it's a mertiocracy. It ain't. These category of people go through the cycle of confusion, disappointment, anger, resentment, misery, then quit or pray for a severance to put them out of their misery.
Which group are you? The sooner you wake up, take the red pill instead of the blue pill and see the game-show for what is, the better. Move on to a better life elsewhere. And read this board for entertainment purposes only, not for answers to the meaning of life at Q, which gets an F on its report card. Or a ZERO on a scale of 1..5 on their own system. They should be put on a PIP for being so pitiful.
This website is so fun
Silly rabbit. It's usually the weasels that "delegate" their responsibilities to a new hire that doesn't know any better that get promoted because they demonstrate that they can "delegate". I watched as a Sr Dir delegated to a Principal Eng, the Principal delegated to a Sr Staff, who then delegated to a new hire, Sr Engineer. Then every week the Sr Dir would ask the Principal for a status update, who would then ask the Sr Staff for a status update, would then ask the Sr Engineer for an update, who was working late nights and weekends in order to do the work and provide a status update. Can you guess which 3 out of the 4 got promoted? These guys have no shame.