How can i get into these 150K/250K high paying jobs ?
Hi All, May be i am being too ambitious,but i am wondering how can i get into those high salary jobs like in Google/FB/Microsoft/Netflix etc.. I feel that my career path is not in the right way.My technical background and professional timelibes is shown below. YOE : Total 6 years. 3 years in India as a Software Engineer with SQL server and .Net framework. CS Masters in USA 3 years as SQL DBA and BI developer in a BI tool (Lets just say COGNOS) i am interested in different techologies and so i am always learning (not bluffing like in an HR interview). I have done online courses in Node.js, IOS development,No SQL db,Tensor Flow -Machine learning etc.I do these online courses because i get excited about these technologies and hope i could do something in those but i never get real chance to work in those. I am just thinking how would i change my career path so i can get into one of those companies with big salary. I just feel that since i am already at a place in my career where i am not cosidered a suitable person since my skills are either too focussed or too diverse. Not sure where i should start to learn/plan for such an opportunity.? #roadmap #career
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I worked in bi, sde and ds roles within 3 years, i am finding it hard to chose as well, sde is boring but pay is insanely high that it is hard to not try for sde roles
Just imagine you were in charge of software engineering at a top company. Most of your budget is going towards paying the salaries of employees. Some of it will go to running data centers and what not but it’s not that expensive. You have a big budget compared to small companies. But it’s still a limited budget. If you don’t get good value for the money you spend, you might find yourself regretting some of those hires that you made. So let’s say you’re hiring for a new team and your plan is to make the team be a some very expensive employees and a some less expensive employees. What differences are there between the guys that get hired at higher salary vs lower salary? What differences are there between the guys that get hired for high salary vs the guys who apply for the position but don’t get it? How do you decide whether to go for a fewer but more expensive employees vs more but cheaper employees? If you want the big money, you have to convince company management of two things. First, that you are likely to bring in big value to the team. Second, that you are likely to being more value than your competitors (other job seekers) I bet there are tons of things you could do in your spare time (reading books, personal projects, etc) that would make you more enticing to company management.
Great perspective
I appreciate and agree to you perspective .But i am trying to get some advice on whether i should change my current career direction and move forward or do something totally different.
Aim higher to get high. Practice Try Fail Repeat until you get what you want. I started my career with TCS.
And finally you landed a job in Google! That's very inspiring! What helped you in achieving this level?
The first thing you should probably consider/accept is that there are people just like you who make the kind of money you described. You (probably) don't have to do something completely different to get the comp bump. It's more about finding employers/areas/verticals in the market which are willing to pay that kind of money AND be ready to prove you're the best fit for the position. The other thing is desperation. Most candidates reek of desperation. Those people are almost never the ones scoring high comp.
Go work out on the west coast for a year and then transfer somewhere like Utah , Phoenix or Austin on same salary. Lol. That’s what I did.
Don’t get your hopes up. Sounds like you’ve been doing the wrong things for many years and now you want top TC... lol, why not become a footballer? Probably same odds. Be happy with what you got, and understand you’ve got only yourself to thank.
I know I have been into wrong career path..that’s why I am asking for suggestions.i may not reach there..but atleast gotta try..do me a favor by not discouraging
I’m doing you a favor and I’m telling you to not chase top TC. Can you improve from where you are now? For sure! Can you get top TC with lots of work and many struggles? Maybe. Do you want to? Well, if you didn’t do it so far, you’ll probably struggle and be miserable, and may or may not last. What does 250 TC get you that 85 doesn’t?
I think your stack might be outdated. Work on learning new frameworks like React/Angular for front end or node is/python for backend, there’s a huge market for those types of developers. If you’re in the U.S I would consider a contract position to gain working experience, then leetcoding your way to a full time role. That’s what I did at least.
I am in US and I started MEAN stack learning.Thanks for the advice.
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