I’m one of those hungry people who needs to keep rising. I don’t foresee myself as a middle manager or deep in the engineering world. I see myself in leadership. I’ve been a SWE for 5 years at msft and another big company and I’ve even working for the past year as a Partner Engineer at Facebook. What now? I could feasibly go into Product Management, back to SWE (which I am NOT excited to do), or something else completely TBD! Exciting times, would like to hear about potential career path choices from here on out. The goal is to continue saving up money and moving into roles which will eventually get me into much higher paying TC and C-suite positions.
This guy doesn’t want to be a swe nor a middle manager. He wants to skip all that and jump to being a CEO or vp. Yeah, good luck. You must be special.
Can join MBB consulting. If you survive 5-6 years you can exit as VP to corporate America. Alternatively can join startup. Over there you can be VP of useless shit with a team size of 1. I was offered VP of engineering before so I know this first hand.
4Sed are you bitter about something because it sure sounds like it (8) This is something I was thinking about. What is MBB consulting by the way?
product mgmt
I think so too right now
I suppose you could start with VP of eng at a small startup. Once you get leadership experience can jump to cto or ceo at other companies. Starting your own startup is another choice but all these ideas will be a pay cut. Only staying in middle management will keep your current pay or more.
Hmm yeah I may have to sacrifice pay for the right role in leadership. Which gives me reason to save money at a FANG right now!
Startup
It might be easier to figure out your future if you think in terms of what you want to do, instead of focusing so much on what position you want to occupy.
I want to lead and guide company vision. That makes the position clear.
Why not rest and vest? If you're partner engineer you would have at least $5mil in net worth....
A Partner Engineer is not a level. It’s a specific role where someone with a SWE background works works with partners.
Partner is a level at Microsoft. Level 68. How can you not know?