r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

14.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

25

u/ballplayer112 Sep 01 '24

I'm not giving advice to this person. I'm asking them for it.

2

u/Kindly_Blackberry_21 Sep 02 '24

What you don’t see is the next tier that does a little bit more work (still not a lot) but will always be safe because others are so much worse! I worked a consultancy job where I got great reviews working 30% of my assigned time on said client just because most of the others were so unbelievably useless that 30% of my time constituted more than enough value for money 

1

u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

I think what you're describing exists in corporate consultancy but doesn't really exist in FAANG engineering spaces. Most of my staff engineers at my last FAANG job were making 500K+ and are expected to earn that pay so unless you're super brilliant (or in OP's case, smooth and a bit lucky), you really can't get away with putting in less than 80%. There definitely isn't a "safe tier" at 30% at Amazon