Steve Huynh shares his exact compensation as a Principal Engineer at Amazon and discusses how to think about career growth and income.
Sharing income details is taboo, but it shouldn't be. In this video I'll cover exactly how much money I make, but more importantly, how I think about income.
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Wage Income
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On “I made a huge mistake in becoming a Engineering Manager”
I was a child during the Great Recession but I've watched videos of former managers and people with MBAs lining up to get a job at McDonald's during that period. People call it the "corporate ladder" but it's really more of a corporate pyramid. The reality is that there are way more software engineer jobs available than there are management jobs available.
Unless you're planning on starting your own company or planning to build the sort of network required to become an executive (like the CEO of Spotify basically peer pressuring Dara Khosrowshahi to become the CEO of Uber), I'm not sure that aiming for an exec role is a realistic goal for most people.
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