Senior techie on switching from Microsoft to Atlassian: ‘3 months nearly broke me’

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Last year, Puneet Patwari left his role as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and joined Atlassian as Principal Software Engineer. On paper, it looked like a smooth success story. Patwari, however, says the three months he spent preparing for a job switch nearly broke him.Puneet Patwari opens up about the real cost of job switchingIn a thread shared on the social media platform X yesterday, Patwari warned that while switching jobs can boost salary and career growth, people often underestimate the intense personal and mental cost involved.(Also read:

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