I am at level 65 with 15 years experience. I have an offer in FANG as well as one of the startups. I am getting worried about all new tech stack rampup. I am a C# developer with all my experience in Microsoft tech stack. I am worried about ramping up in Scala, new domain and am sort of getting overwhelmed with this thought. I am quite comfortable in Microsoft right now. Thinking should I make the move or not? Any suggestions on how to ease the transition. This will be the first major tech stack transition for me since I started my career. Any tips will really help.
Why do you want to move? More money? Want something different?
Bro like you I used to be a C# developer. I moved to Scala when I had 15+ years of experience. I suggest that you join a smaller company first and once you master the ecosystem then move to FANG. Language is not a problem at all, it’s the ecosystem like SBT, ScalaTest, Gatling and dozens of libraries like Cats and Shapeless which take more time. Once you are fluent in the ecosystem then join a FANG.
I so not agree with you. Why would you go to a smaller company to get used to stuff, where there is even more pressure to get things faster?
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Agreed. But what about ecosystem like build systems, performance testing tools etc? They are totally different between .net and Java / Scala worlds. FANGs May have very expectations and learning everything on the job might be hard.
Everyone moving to a FANG is new to their custom internal ecosystem, so they have a healthy rampup period. You'll be fine.
This is my exact hang up. Going through interview process now. I have done tech stack adjustment before but it is hell. If you can endure 3 months of hell in ramping you should be fine. I am at the age that I don’t know if it is worth it to do it all over again. Only so many times you can reinvent yourself.
Agree with NerdFarmer. The first few weeks/months you’d need to spend more time understanding the ecosystem
Which of FANG uses Scala?
twtr :p
u cracked an interview nd now u ve doubts ?
wow you english, bad almost as mine
Me no say english