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Have you ever come back to a company after leaving (e.g. a few years later)? How did it go? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

I left a company after 5 years because (in retrospect) I was starting to feel burned out about product engineering. I left for another product engineering job, thinking that my problem was with the product culture at my old place. Nope! Hated product work at the new place too.

Eventually a role opened up at the old place, working on a more dev-ops-y side, and I gave it a shot. It worked out well for 2 years, but after a re-organization cut back the scope of my work, I left for somewhere else.