Is Networking software development a dead-end job?
Will it be around for long? Will future be about apps and data analyics? #tech #cisco #swe #networkengineer
If you are a really skilled Network engineer, then there's a huge market. If you're a mediocre NWE, it's better to be a mediocre SWE.
It’s not dead end but it’s morphed itself into cloud infra engineering. Kubernetes + AWS, Azure and GCP networking with a good bit of systems engineering knowledge is the new network engineering job. What you know is still relevant, but how you use it has changed.
Infra and networking are never the same infra encompass a lot more than networking Engineering
Totally agree with the answer here ! The knowledge is same and has to be applied in cloud context nowadays
Software defined networking and networking function virtualization are growing quickly, so no.
Growing! It’s TAM (targeted addressable market) is already saturated may be 1b more. Any SaaS companies do 1b in a yr!!
TAM is Total
Networking software development will not be narrowed to only those with in-depth networking knowledge anymore. Cloud and container developments has made it easy to understand the top level nuances of networking as Microsoft mentioned above. Sole network engineering jobs are now being marketed or labeled as cloud engineering jobs. Network SW development ones are being pushed into infra development. Skills are useful with ramping on newer trends. It's been the same throughout my career.
No way SDN is growing. Would you instead do Crud work lol!
Just curious. What makes you say SDN is not growing?
If you've got skills, DM me
Networking will be cheap. Companies don’t make money’s because they have good networks. It’s just an expense for them. I’m moving to AI field.
service providers sure do. Networks are constantly changing, look at StarLink and 5G. Networking is like plumbing, essential.
You can always move to a cloud provider
Job market is very small. All public clouds already have small army of network engineers. It’s almost impossible to make career
Hmm based on the title I believed op was taking about software dev of networking equipment not network engineering
Just look at the stock growth of CSCO vs the app companies in the last 2 years. That shows where the value is.
Look at the pay to experience ratio If it is getting lower, then it means it's going to a dead end job. Do you see college kids who build apps making more than a network engineer with 10yoe? If so then network eng is dying.
Flawed argument... Just because some career choice doesn't have hight salaries doesn't mean those career options are dying. With that logic all mechanical engineer,electrical engineer,civil engineer etc etc should consider their profession as dying because some college kid build app and earn 200k in 2 yoe....
Don’t take dead literally. Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineering jobs are already commoditized. Meaning, they are able to find lot of them and hence pay is low.