> Just curious, what do you define as an _okay_ job? Would you be willing to pay the opportunity cost to take it?
If I didn't have enough money to pay for food/rent, I would take the first offer. Fortunately, I've never been in that situation.
> I applied to over 50 companies and not all of them were FAANG by any stretch of the imagination. I'll admit I'm not the best at interviewing, which certainly was a factor. But even as I broadened my search to the "okay" roles, I still had difficulty landing work.
If you're thinking about the distinction between FAANG and not FAANG, then we are talking about completely different levels of _okay_. I'm talking about non-tech companies, where you'd most likely be working on internal tools or whatever. Maybe you'd be writing crappy Jira/Confleunce/whatever plugins. Or gluing together one internal system to another internal system, etc.
I consider _okay_ to mean a job that pays enough money to cover rent/food.
If I didn't have enough money to pay for food/rent, I would take the first offer. Fortunately, I've never been in that situation.
> I applied to over 50 companies and not all of them were FAANG by any stretch of the imagination. I'll admit I'm not the best at interviewing, which certainly was a factor. But even as I broadened my search to the "okay" roles, I still had difficulty landing work.
If you're thinking about the distinction between FAANG and not FAANG, then we are talking about completely different levels of _okay_. I'm talking about non-tech companies, where you'd most likely be working on internal tools or whatever. Maybe you'd be writing crappy Jira/Confleunce/whatever plugins. Or gluing together one internal system to another internal system, etc.
I consider _okay_ to mean a job that pays enough money to cover rent/food.