I might get a job offer for Senior FrontEnd Software Engineer on an Apps team. (Not platform). Some people have warned that this type of role is heavily drag and drop using the servicenow platform, with some scripting. The hiring manager confirmed this saying 50% of the role is utilizing the platform... I've heard a lot of great things about WLB and the culture here, but I'm worried this type of role might make it harder to get hired at good companies in the future. Should I be worried? Will this hurt my ability to get hired at faang/high TC companies after? I got laid off recently from Tier 2 company. No other offers yet. Should I work at ServiceNow?? (assuming their offer is decent) YOE: 4 Previous TC: 270k Current TC: 0 Expected offer from ServiceNow: ~200k I think. Not sure yet #ServiceNow
You can always say you worked for platform team. May be understand what the platform teams do and be good at their tech stack. Java/Some AWS/Kafka/Cassandra. From what I heard its easy to master their platform. JS is easy. So there is not going to be a huge gap for you to fill in terms of ramping up. That explains the WLB. Also not every big tech offers you work that is “awesome”. For eg amazon gives you a platter full of operations even though their tech stack is awesome. Build something that is useful outside of work. Be an expert in one language (Java), one message broker (kafka) and one or 2 dbs (cassandra and may be postgres). Be good with writing unit and integ tests. Just these should fetch you great opportunities outside. When someone asks wtf do you do at snow, tell them you work in their platforms team and be sure to make friends in platform and ask them wtf they do..understand things at a 1000 ft level. All of us exaggerate things we do in interviews..you probably have to do a bit more…snow is not a bad company after all. I mean many folks know about it
On point. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I think we all have done this with our projects on resume when we were freshers.
Who told you WLB is good?
😭 … team dependent?
Yes team dependent. In many teams it is good.
There is no WLB and the culture is garbage
What’s your org?
WLB can definitely be an issue depending on team, but the culture is not garbage. It has suffered due to crazy growth but it’s one of the few places I’ve worked where people care about what they do.
Good WLB???? Seriously dude, who told you that ServiceNow have good WLB? And tech stack?? It's just garbage here. Take advice from a fellow ServiceNow employee and keep interviewing
Whats your total yoe ?
What org are you?
Don’t join. WLB is terrible in most teams. The company’s HR is actively monitoring and making comments on the company’s public channel fyi.
This is funny. Right here I announce that I am not HR! but I understand my chosen name may give the impression otherwise 😂
I wouldn’t worry about their reputation. They’re well known in tech. Of course it’s not the same as FAANG or top tier companies. But better than a no-name or non-tech. And especially when you’re unemployed..