There have been many presentations in my group on a new project started a couple of years ago. It has exposure to multiple distributed technologies like kafka, mongo, modern prog languages etc. I expressed my interest to work on it in 1-1 with my mgr. Mgr mentioned: It is risky at this stage and may be cancelled. Reason is simple, it is hard to sell. Many such attempts have been done in past and they never generated revenues. So few people are working on it right now. I have been in the team from few years and i know what mgr mentioned is not because of any bias against me or wants to put someone else on it. If i continue to build revenue making products, i will grow well within the team. One part of me says that i should push for it as it make me more relevant in the outside world. Regardless of what it is, cisco is famous for layoffs and skills I am gaining right now are irrelevant in outside world. So in such cases , these skills may have an edge. I don't know the scope of work on it and it may be too much and I have some things related to family to do. Other part thinks that, i can grow in the team and better to be 'aligned' as it will be good for me and not like whining person. Also skills and knowledge i gain in this will be useful because i can get to build wider and bigger projects in future and take more leadership role and be expert in these areas. Also these projects have big customers and won't go away. So knowledge won't be wasted and my growth path won't decline. I would like to know your thought on what can be a good action forward:
thats a nice catch 22 situation. the thing is the skills you are talking about are only relevant to getting to the interview stage and clearing it once you get in to a new outside place they will have their own internal set of things that they want you to do. my 2 cents why don’t you align yourself in current space and avoid the risky project yet try building those skills on the side, if possible! and then map your current role with those acquired skills when you apply somewhere else!
Leetcode and GTFO. You'll learn faster from better people, while earning more TC and boosting your resume.
Long story short, i mostly luck out of LC process unfortunately. yes i had offers before picking cisco over other but i know it is extremely difficult and lot of luck is needed. i don't feel like GTFO as many dynamics are playing key role here (eg: immigration, predictable things etc. , big company, stability, good team members, medical problems ..too many). I am middle age and have family do not want to take startup risk. And on hind sight , i feel better i chose cisco over that considering the market situation right now. I dont feel i would have made money in that company (even though it seemed to be hot) as market has normalized and will pay fair valuation not 3-5x what happened in 2020-2021.
If you need stability, stick with products where the margin is above 20%. Don't go for fancy names.
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