Hello everyone, I've decided to leave my current role in a Hedge Fund (UK) to work in industrial tech consulting (CH), moving from 50 hours to 42 hours/week and getting more pay (cost of living is about the same). I'm still early in my career, BSc.+MSc. degree CS from ETH with 1YOE. I like both companies and would appreciate some career advice, in case you might know something I don't. Flutter: - Big company - 90K CHF/yr - Can downgrade to 80% if I ever choose to do so. MAUI: - Small company - 100K CHF/yr - Everything is Windows/Azure (focus on one set of technologies due to size). - Possibility to become partner after one year. Current TC: 50K£ + 30K£ bonus, 50 hour weeks, partner only in sight after 10 years (if you're great! my coworkers are pulling 12 hour days sometimes). #career #advice #help #software #engineering
Finally a quality blind post with TC and real details! Tech consulting is all about market appetite for moving to new stack and old stack people are limited. I don’t know about non-USA, but here there is demand for people who can do this for older dotnet applications in financial industries, and people make a killing out of it.
Thank you! Would you recommend going to the older stack if I understood (dotnet, maui, etc), because there are more opportunities there? Or do you recommend going with newer tech like Flutter to win big once you are more older?
Only you can answer this question as it depends 1) what type of stack is widely in use in your area 2) how long you plan to work as a ‘migrations’ consultant!
Does Maui even have solid documentation yet?
Certainly not as great as Flutter. I heard only 4 people at Microsoft work at Blazor which also blew my mind a bit. Do you know what works better for freelance consulting in the future, MAUI or Flutter?
No a clue
I would choose Flutter because MAUI hasn't matured yet (documentation, libraries, community support etc) (No idea about Flutter but i've played around with MAUI)
Definitely go to Hawaii
Nice lol, thank you :-) Can i ask you for the reason? I wouldn't mind paying for a digital beer, although you probably have enough already 👍