New grad here!
It’s really bad. Took me a field switch to get out of that cycle.
Yes
Yes.
YES! Don’t pigeon hole yourself, it’s hard to leave both within an organization and as you switch jobs. I have witnessed it myself.
Yes, it’s a bad place to start.
Yes. It’s very political and you can get jerked around terribly if someone influential does not take you under their wing. Also, if anything breaks in production, your fault 🙃
This. ^^^^^
Lol funny how it isn’t the engineer’s fault. They wrote the code.
Yes.
Yes, bad place to start. In some orgs developers do much of the automation around testing.
Depends. If there’s automation involved, it’s better than manual QA. Manual QA is basically a dead end unless you’re lucky.
Depends on your major. I wouldn't even waste time if it's CS. If you majored with something less technical, QA might be a good transferring point.
pretty good answer, though I'd venture to say if you're trying to get into dev, try really hard to start in dev!