Ex-Meta engineer: escaping the promotion grind was worth the lost money
DanGrover · x · 2026-09-12
DanGrover admits he winces at the money he left on the table by leaving Meta, but says the psychic damage of the promotion grind is hard to reckon with — and it got him while he was there. The original post describes a friend who constantly runs promo calculations as a background mental process, calling it a terrible use of personal cognition, with creating things as the only way out of the line.
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