Currently content at Cisco (New Grad SWE) but I plan to begin interviewing again come 2020; I will have been at Cisco for >=6 months. Looking to target other large companies (FAANG). That being said, I have 2 questions:
1) Am I correct in assuming FAANG recruiters won’t care about the <1-yr stint? I ended up on a high-impact/visibility project and will have seen releases one and two through to completion, so no shortage of resume/interview content personally, but just wondering.
2) Is leveling up possible when jumping ship this early? That is, could I actually enter the interview pipeline for SDE2 @ Amazon (or 61 @ Microsoft, etc)? I know this can be contingent on a number of things, but wondering if theres anything I can do to influence the outcome (besides kill the interview).
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Honestly you haven’t done nothing yet ... chill and learn the work
With regards to my work, I suppose I’m thinking about this with respect to other new grads I’ve been speaking to at Cisco. Not at all trying to sound demeaning, but just about every SWE I’ve talked to is either getting very little work, or isn’t even fully involved in their team’s development practices (standups, sprint planning, code review, etc.). I know that doesn’t speak to the value/worth of the work I’ve done personally; I just mean to say that I can say with a high degree of certainty that I fell into a project that’s allowed me to hit the ground running and, as I said in the comment above, have more impact than what I thought was possible in ~6 months at Cisco.
That being said, Cisco does not lend itself so well to leveling up, hence my questions.
Start lc and applying at about 9 month
I‘m one of just two SWEs on the project (backend/networking automation focus, rest of team consists of networking engineers and one front-end engineer). The codebase is quite young so I’ve touched just about every piece of it and have had to design/add entirely separate modules on top. Ramp-up lasted about a month and I was taking on full story points thereafter. My responsibilities have amounted quickly and I feel I’ll be satisfied with my impact in a few months.
I appreciate the response, I don’t disagree leveling up might be entirely out of the question.
Just don't go drumming around abt it to your colleagues!
All the best!
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After 1 year start really applying. Most people know that Cisco sucks but they want to see that you can stick out a shit company for a year since there will be times when you hate the current company.