TechStart VS Engineering Dev Group
Hi all, I have two offers from both Mathworks and Liberty Mutual for their Engineering Dev Group and TechStart programs respectively. Liberty is offering 81,000 while Mathworks is offering 100,000 base salary. This is my first position and I have no other experience in software. I am a Mechanical Engineer new grad moving into this field. My current thought is that the experience at Liberty would be more valuable and I can use that to more successfully transition to anther company doing SWE down the line. I wanted to get the Blind community's thoughts on this though. For anyone that has experience in these programs and think I may be wrong, let her rip. #tech
It’s about 50% of your time. Being good at troubleshooting matlab toolboxes or seeing real world customer perspectives can be valuable. But it is a time tradeoff and depends how important it is to your goals. I know many folks look to minimize this and try move out soon…
I’ve been in the Eng Dev Group (a while ago!) and imo it is a good way to get yourself into swe (and also many other roles if you want to try), especially if you don’t have much software experience. If you move to become a full time swe role, Mathworks would set you up to become a good software engineer (they had amazing training programs for ex). I have had friends who have gone on to more “well set up companies” - Msft, meta etc and still mention the training and coding quality they saw in MW was very valuable compared to those companies. Cons: you can expect some down time without progressing for any swe role before you move to those (it used to be 1.5 years on average, try to find this now). Now I know, 1.5-2 years is good time to progress if you get a direct role of interest in most companies. I don’t know much about🗽 and in hindsight might be biased to try something other than mathworks given my story (I stayed in this group a lot, moved to a niche domain - not swe), but glad for the experimentation with different teams and most importantly friends.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Do you think the customer support side of the role was useful?