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easier to find jobs in small companies. I'm currently working for a large company, but I don't think I could get this opportunity if I didn't have the experiences gained through small companies.
Thank you. What advantages you see in working for a large company vs working for a small company.
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I don't know you and don't mean to insult but I advise you to change your mentality. Victimhood is a choice. Yes, you live in a 3rd world country where things are harder. But SE is one of the only fields where you don't need a degree, could work from anywhere in the world and still make decent money especially depending on the cost of living in your country. Plenty of poeple live in 3rd world countries and have found…
Empathy. It's a thing. But seriously, there 8 billion of us on the planet and things can be massively different for different people. First, software engineering is NOT necessarily well paid anywhere. A lot of that is a usa thing! Even in Canada, developers are far less on the crazy side of bell curve than in usa. None of my friends can make any sense of usa salaries. And in many other parts of the world, IT worker i…
It certainly was. I do realize though that my style is too crude and seems to lack empathy.
Twice! I left engineering (non-CS) at 36 y/o to become a firefighter-paramedic. Long story short, took EMT-Basic at night for shits and giggles, realized I really liked it. Then went to paramedic school afterwards not knowing what I was going to do with it. Close to graduation from PM, county FD was hiring paramedic only and cross training to be FF as well. I figured if I didn't do it then I never would so I did. The…
It's not going to be anywhere near as big as other responses, but I kind of did at 31: switched from development to maintenance. I was tired of having to keep redoing the same thing whenever the product owner or designer changed their mind on something, and the tipping point came after they were looking for suggestions for this one visualization clients had a hard time understanding. No one liked my suggestion so we…
- in job1, I redid the same thing three times (!!) using different tech stacks and/or different designs; got tired and found new job
- in job2 I was working on performance and tooling, so this was quite new; but after 2-3 years it became clear the app will go the same endless cycles of UI rewriting & refactoring, with things changing faster and performance degrading faster than I could improve it
- in job3 I'm in a senior role & platform team, building & ops-ing stuff; but most importantly the company is here to stay, and it builds new stuff; there's a very stable design system, and we keep innovating & keeping lights green, rather than doing endless brand refreshing.
Also a critical diff IMO: job3 is a b2b product -> focus is on making stuff work;
job1 & job2 were b2c products -> focus was on chasing new b2c customers (hence endless UI changes, lack of focus and vision)