I remember my first day at Intel. A guy was putting his stuff in a cardboard box, never to be seen again. It was during a downsizing, and my boss reminded me how lucky I was to be an intern. "The only guy with job security."
Remarkably he's still there, and I still have other friends there, nearly two decades later. One of them writes on FB over and over about how pointless the meetings are, and complains about the stock price.
When I left, I managed to get myself an offer for the management track, via a friend on the same track. I turned it down thinking I'd probably regret it, but I decided during the internship that there was something about this apparent elevator to the C-suite that didn't quite seem right to me. The ease of being at what at the time was an unassailable monopoly perhaps seemed both too good to be true and probably hiding issues down the line, both for the business and in terms of internal competition climbing the greasy pole.
But also changing jobs every now and again has had other liberating effects. I have a lot more confidence that it can be done (since it's been done lol) but also there's a variety in seeing various businesses and people that's hard to get if you stay put. The fact that new jobs generally means more money is a big bonus on top of that. I suppose a lot of firms get a huge saving from people who don't look around much.
Remarkably he's still there, and I still have other friends there, nearly two decades later. One of them writes on FB over and over about how pointless the meetings are, and complains about the stock price.
When I left, I managed to get myself an offer for the management track, via a friend on the same track. I turned it down thinking I'd probably regret it, but I decided during the internship that there was something about this apparent elevator to the C-suite that didn't quite seem right to me. The ease of being at what at the time was an unassailable monopoly perhaps seemed both too good to be true and probably hiding issues down the line, both for the business and in terms of internal competition climbing the greasy pole.
But also changing jobs every now and again has had other liberating effects. I have a lot more confidence that it can be done (since it's been done lol) but also there's a variety in seeing various businesses and people that's hard to get if you stay put. The fact that new jobs generally means more money is a big bonus on top of that. I suppose a lot of firms get a huge saving from people who don't look around much.