Front-end - A DEAD END?
Hello Blind, I am a UI developer currently working in an Online Travel Company. The work is Great I love it. There is no salary disparity bw FE and BE engineers. However I keep wondering about the fact that "L6 or above is hard to get as a FEE"! How true is that? Is there no growth opportunity after L5 for FE? If so What are my other options? Help needed! Yoe : 4 TC: 20L (INR) #frontend #tech #career #l4 #amazon
Literally just switch teams 😂
Not sure about google but isn’t switching teams harder if they want you to have an impact right away. I find that sometimes if you are not as familiar with the language, teams don’t take you easily unless you show that you can work with that language right away
Literally just learn python and switch teams 😂🤣. Ppl grind 300+ leets to get here and they too lazy to spend 1 week learning Python 😂😂.
Amazon does online travel?
I shifted company
If you do fe web - then you need to start transitioning Either to full stack web or consider mobile where there’s a way deeper list of topics, and ui is just one
most people won’t ever make it to L6 so cross that bridge when you get there?
Isn't L6 at Amazon = SDE3? Most people don't make it to that level?
yup
1. You have 4yoe. Let's chat about l6 when you get there. Focus on being goood at what you are first. 2. As your career progresses, you will learn what you are passionate about At L6 and above: either you are in infra/platform writing frameworks/languages, or being the rare talent to think about the end-end big picture and full stack is a great choice to go in as well. Also, if you are good enough to be l6 considered joining a startup or being the eng director/cto? Almost every startup I know needs a FE engineer or full stack expert. You can make it big impact on an org level
L6 Amazon is about 5a at Uber. You can get to senior just by leading projects, not necessary to get to infra/platform cross functional contributions
L6 isn't 5a imo. It's prolly l5b or a wider band. I had a competitive offer at l6 and it's same as l5b
In the same boat. Three options: 1. Join a team with high impact front-end opportunities (these are available, but harder to find than full-stack opportunities); 2. Convert to full-stack for more opportunities and put in the hours to study more complex algo questions; 3. Convert to UX design and give up coding with slight pay cut, but still have an impact on the front-end. Obviously there are other more drastic changes you can make like going into product management or data science.
lol wut? Literally just switch teams 😂. I was doing ObjC now I do C++. Theres like a 3-4 weeks ramp up, thats all.
Mobile ain’t front end