I started out working on an infrastructure team — think core infrastructure things like provisioning, compute, performance, logging, data processing, that kind of stuff. The caveat is that we don’t really solve distributed systems problems because we’re generally using those cloud services as black boxes. My question is broadly: is this a good place to start a career? What skills and problem domains should I gravitate towards if I want to maximize TC and career growth? What specializations are there that might be better than infrastructure? e.g. product, growth, mobile, machine learning, more toward data, front-end TC: 220-300k depending on the day
Full-Stack Web Developers are in high demand right now.
Is it really a good career choice though? Seems like a trade job and one of the first that will be eaten by Lambda School.
Yeah, it’s more of a trade job, but they seem to be recession proof. I’m a UI/UX designer but I don’t know code. If I did, I would be super valuable. I do believe front-end devs can only go so far with their TC though.
what constitutes product oriented engineering? I thought mobile or full stack web dev falls under that?
I was thinking more like “a product team” so at Facebook that could be like FB Dating or Instagram Stories.
I see, so you mean either backend , mobile or some infra but specific to that product?
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Its a cliche answer but good at what you do is the best way. And by beinng good here I mean doing it for 5+ years.
What if I want to make sure that I am well-positioned to go into whatever is 🔥? My impression is that specialization hurts more than it helps in the medium term because it restricts opportunities.
Depends if you want to be an IC or not the only way to be an L7+ IC (pretty rare but there are folks like that at Google) is to be a specialist. Or if you want to keep moving around move into EM as soon as you can.