Title: I joined Google straight from college 6 years ago as a SWE, and by now I&#x27;m used to the style of work of &quot;do the minimal work possible to do the job&quot;, I never challenge myself to deeply learn about what I&#x27;m doing, it&#x27;s almost like I&#x27;ve been using only 10% of my mental capacity for work (the rest was on dating&#x2F;dealing with breakups&#x2F;dealing with depression&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;...).
Even when I get a meaningful project, all I do is copy code from the internal codebase and patch things together until they work. I was promoted only once.<p>Now that I&#x27;m thinking of jumping ship to other interesting companies, I&#x27;m having serious doubts that I really learned what I should have learned during all those years. Especially since I&#x27;m considering companies with a higher hiring bar than Google.<p>How can I keep myself accountable while I&#x27;m still at the company to deeply learn the FE&#x2F;BE technologies to be better prepared for other companies? Should I start by preparing a checklist of technologies and dive into each of them for a month and continue from there?
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