Hey all, new to blind here, so please kill me kindly. Trying to figure out the norms. I have been working at my consultancy for about 3 years. Been in the Quality Engineering for 5 years. Ever since I have started working at current job as Quality Engineer, I always get put on island and pretty much have to fend for myself and dealing with tough clients that required skills beyond the levels of the job. What made me start doubting was my last project. Though I was promoted to Senior QE, the constant consultancy actions and communications BS that I had to do was appalling, and quality was so bad that we didn’t have a nightly scheduled regression tests until I rejoin the QE team and found out about it. Everyday it as like I have either have to put a body on a fire, while dealing current fire. I am considering the following: 1. Is the Quality engineer career worth it? Thinking maybe switching to SWE internally since I feel limited in my career development. The Seattle job market for QEs doesn’t seem to be good at all. Feels like most of my time is spending to deal with communication maneuvering. I have to constantly come up with 5 communication countermeasures when I just wanted to solve the problem. 3. It feels like I have to constantly restart my relationship with people again. I love networking with people, but when it comes to testing, It is the constant discussion all over again that I have to navigate around. 4. For the amount of work that I have to do, I have been operating on the next promotion level that both my project QE and client had been noticing and have been making note. 6. It just feels like the level of work that I am doing versus my TOC is not rewarding. I am starting to just look forward to my paycheck and when can I go on vacation. 7. Should I go for my masters or MBA? Ever since I started investing and researching business, I love to learn more about business models, supply chains, business communication and whatnot. I can code had a full stack dev job for half a year, but went back into testing because of toxic environment where we were using ExtJS and I had to jump from the office politics. There is also the Comp aspect as well. 8. Responsibilities of the next promotion level is going to be more consultancy communication crap that I have to do. I really am not looking forward to it. Sorry for the long and perhaps whiny post. Just figuring what are my next steps to optimize my output in life. YOE: 6 Comp: 120k
What are you at S associate c Or
I am part of B side. The equivalent is probably Senior C.