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I currently work as a half Software Engineer, half Scrum Master in the St. Louis area. A few months ago I was promoted unexpectedly to a Software Engineer II after only being there around one year after college. TC: 100,000 YOE: 1.5 not counting any previous internships/co-ops I have been getting a lot of LinkedIn recruiters offering up positions such as Software Engineer III, or Senior Scrum Master. I am also finishing my Master's Degree in MIS in a month and if I leave the company in the next 2 years I will have to pay it back which is around 25K total. What TC would make switching companies worth it in this stage of my career? I would try and get a signing bonus to take care of the school issue. I don't mind where I am at, but some of the estimates given for a new TC as a Senior Scrum Master was around 130-140k which is tempting.
Assuming a scrum master is TPM role you can get 200k in tech center easily (Seattle, NYC, bay area). If it's not a TPM, then I have no idea what you do.
You’re talking a lot about titles too much and not the actual job role responsibilities so it’s hard to offer helpful replies.
What I currently do is part time develop C++ code, and part time serve as the Scrum master for two teams. The new role if I took a Senior Scrum master option would be to just do the Scrum master role for 2-3 teams and also mentor other scrum masters.
Yeah that’s not a good career move
As scrum master do you create and manage execution plans, write user stories/epics and take action to unblock engineers? Pure Scrum Master skills are not highly valued in my experience. Knowledge of Agile is valuable but that is more than scrum master. TPM has more potential. Anyway I would not lose your technical edge so early in your career. If you stay technical you can manage engineers.
I do not do anything with execution plans, but I do write user stories and occasionally epics. I also take action to unblock engineers. That's a good point about managing engineers since that is my goal later on in my career.
I would not swap a tech job for busy work.
"Senior Scrum Master" lol
At my organization, they do make a large impact to how fast the job gets done and protect the development team from a lot of outside forces that take their time away. Even with doing that role for two teams it is only a part time job but I do think it serves a purpose. Since switching to agile our organization has cut costs and improved software quality by 20% and 35%ish respectively.
When you say "improved software quality by 35%". That sounds like jibberish, just fyi.