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TC: 140k I was contacted by a recruiter about an SDET/Automation position at Meta. My background is back-end SWE. Is the career track for Automation as good as SWE? My end goal is management, so I’m wondering if this is going to prevent me from moving into management sooner. #meta
SDET is probably one of the hardest role to hire so most companies end up bringing mediocre contractors. As a SDET you will learn more about system designing, testing, release management, CI/CD Automation, Engineering Productivity and monitoring. Don’t listen to these stupid folks who have no idea what’s is SDET. I have around 30 SDETS in my team. DM if you need guidance.
Yeah I get the feeling SDETs are not appreciated and are misunderstood. It says you’re not able to use the chat feature for DMs lol. Please DM if it works the other way around
In most good companies SDETs are highly appreciated. Also appreciation doesn't come from titles like SDET vs SRE vs SDE. It comes with your work, engineering rigor and impact. I also agree that SDET is one of the most difficult role to hire
@Experian, did you end up interviewing for SDET role?
Did you interview? Any tips?
Just interview for SDE instead. SDET in general is a dead end career position. My team is looking to hire SDETs too and we finally decided to just hire contractors for that.
Yeah. I don’t really see the point of sdet at Meta when it’s the same loop and boring
If the title says SWE - Automation, does that mean I could pick a different team during boot camp or no?