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I recently started my career as a .NET dev (2 years experience) and accepted a new position at a company being told I would be working with .NET. Long story short is they want me to do their Sales Force Development which then takes me away from .NET. This is a consulting company so there will be new .NET projects I can hop on but from my conversation with my company is they would like my focus be 100% on sales force crm. It appears I would be the only developer on this project. I hear mix reviews about sales force development and I am unsure if this will be good for my career when I maybe should be sticking with .NET. Im posting here hoping to get advise from someone who has experience with sales force and what your thoughts would be about being a sales force developer. Should I tell my company I want to work on .NET projects and add to my 2 year experience in .NET or is learning Sales Force and ultimatly becoming a sales force dev a window of opportunity I should explore?
Salesforce is alright. If you can do uX using their new alighting experience, that is easily transferrable to other frameworks like react or angular.
Cool. Yah ive done some angular along with web api.
I don't think it should matter all the much long term unless you want to be an extremely low-level .net dev.
Good to hear. Ive only beem programming professionally for 2 years using .NET. And my thought was if I was taken away from .NET for how ever long I would doing sales force that long term I would be delaying my career in regards to being a Senior .net dev in the future.
In my opinion id be more worried about becoming a senior dev in general, not language specific. Unless you want to be really low level (and narrow) I don't think it makes sense to specialize these days. Use which tool is right for the job. I think solving problems and implementing quality solutions is more important.
This is pretty new to me so I havent planned yet on going for dev401 cert. I know the need for my company to put me on saleforce is do a custom CRM. In fact I have never heard of sales force until now. My only concern was it taking away from me getting .NET experience and being stuck on CRM.
I have 2 years of work experience with Salesforce cloud and CRM. While Apex is an OK language, the entire stack is a nightmare to work with. Very unpleasant and obsolete looking. I personally will never ever touch that monstrosity again but many people are ok with it. If the technology stack doesn't bother you go for it. Don't worry about building skills. Salesforce teaches you a set of skills that are universal.
Thanks for your input!
Salesforce is in demand but once you go down that path it can be hard to switch later. It's like specializing in IBM mainframes. There's always someone who will hire you, but you'll always be doing one thing. Personally I wouldn't stay with a company who bait and switched me regardless of the tech stack.
Thanks for the reply! I think that is why im hesitant since im at the beginning of career path still and now that im more proficient in .NET I feel like I would be starting over in a way if I did sales force. Plus you make a good point that in the future it would be hard to switch if I wanted to do something else. And I agree with you.. im going to have a talk with them because I applied and got hired as a .NET developer and not salesforce.