SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget

What is the best career advice you ever received?

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MagicalBagel
MagicalBagel

“Don't ever, for any reason, do anything for anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.”

SwirlyRaccoon
SwirlyRaccoon
Target29mo

You just violated it by replying to this post 😂

GroovyPotato
GroovyPotato
Zomato29mo

World's best manager for a reason

WobblyBanana
WobblyBanana

To not work at Amazon

FluffyNarwhal
FluffyNarwhal
Amazon29mo

Unless you're at another FAANG, useless advice.

Amazon has bad WLB, demands a lot from it's employees and has culture issues, but only compared to other FAANGs. No local Indian company or even Indian branches of MNCs is going to give you the same standards of code reviews, deployment and security best practices, access to a treasure trove of internal videos and documents by senior engineers and a vast set of platform tools to build software.

So yea, you can sit pretty reading Blind about Amazon reputation, but if you're in India and not in another comparable FAANG, you're very mistaken.

WobblyBanana
WobblyBanana

Lmao sure 🙄

FluffyMuffin
FluffyMuffin

There are two ways to grow in an organisation - 'You either lick ass or you kick ass'. Choose wisely. - My first manager

ZoomyNoodle
ZoomyNoodle

Two of them actually -

  1. ‘Make your daily tasks obsolete’. What they meant was do what is required for a couple of months, and identify things you can and automate them. This gives you time and mental space to do better work and work that gets your recognised.

  2. Turn up. Always turn up no matter how bad. Turning up is half the job.

ZoomyPancake
ZoomyPancake
Oracle29mo

Only non tech folks can hard relate

DizzyRaccoon
DizzyRaccoon

To work at a startup at early stage of career

PerkySushi
PerkySushi

Probably, the best till date has to be "If you are not allowed a seat at the table, go build your own table till everyone wants to be the one joining you"

GigglyWalrus
GigglyWalrus

Read it here on another post- take a chance on yourself.

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