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Re: Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

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Post by ilikeerp » Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

snarf21 wrote: post #51

beckingz wrote: post #2

Yes: you can make solid money as a salesforce admin/developer, especially if you are good at working with non-technical stakeholders. Personally, I think that working with salesforce is the worst of CRUD development combined with the worst of SaaS platforms. If you want fun work, I would not recommend Salesforce.

Yeah, I didn't enjoy my stint working on Salesforce code. There are a lot weird things around how long a page can run, how man records you can return, user system, no local debugging (but this was coming), etc. I understand it is a shared system but I wish they had some kind of virtualization/isolation. I always felt like I spent most of my time fighting against the platform and not doing any meaningful work. ymmv

What's weird about limit how long it takes to load a page or limiting the resources your badly written scripts take? It's a SaaS platform, they can't just let your crappy work run loose and impact performance for everyone.

It presents a clearly defined model on how things should work. Maybe you're better off going back to your break-fix break-fix JS development....

Re: Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

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Post by slimbods » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 6:10 AM UTC

lovetocode wrote: post #69

finiteloop wrote: post #7

I am the COO of Salesforce. Two of the top ten jobs on Indeed are Salesforce Admin and Salesforce Developer, and the jobs are distributed around the world. We have a ton of stories of folks transitioning into the ecosystem and developing an extremely successful career. Notably, our certifications are freely available at https://www.trailhead.com/ . You can get started, learn, and get credentials for free. It is a gre…

I thought Salesforce certifications had registration fees. Has that changed?

There's two kinds. The certs do need paying for and test centres. Trailheads are free and give you badges. These are great as an intro, but I think many employers want the real certs.

Re: Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

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Post by jeremyrbrown » Thu, May 06, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

gher-shyu3i wrote: post #53

duckfang wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I gather, they're a: Expensive and hugely expansible webapp built on top of Oracle that allows admins to make and track customers through the sales pipeline using various methods. The software's intent is for marketing, sales, and execs to see how various campaigns are running and how to control them. They're usually outside of standard devops pipeline by a good distance. The downside: Salesforce seems to b…

Haven't they moved off of Oracle? I recall seeing they had job openings for Postgres admins with the intention of moving off of Oracle.

its in progress. there surely are a lot of dependencies to work through. That said - I don't think Oracle would be legally allowed to or capable of damaging Salesforce by witholding licenses or whatever. And the fact that they are on Oracle currently has no effect on the developer, admin, or user facing APIs. like any cloud provider all of that is abstracted away.

Re: Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

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Post by jeremyrbrown » Thu, May 06, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

thrower123 wrote: post #24

For god's sake don't put Salesforce on your LinkedIn profile, or you'll never get anything but recruiters spamming you about terrible jobs writing Apex.

Are you finding that that is actually stopping other opportunities? Agreed that bad recruiters are spamming Salesforce professionals but is it impossible to get out of?