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Is 10 month experience too early for a switch?

So I joined this "Unicorn" right out of graduation. I feel a bit frustrated after working for some months. I spend most of my time tinkering with Pagerduty and datadog integrations and looking into failed pipelines rather than writing code (I've gone for days without writing any code). On paper I'm an SDE-1, but in reality I'm a DevOps guy with SDE in my name. I also haven't had many conversations with my manager, and don't have much feedback about my work at all. Maybe I'm just burned out, but while trying to fix this I don't want to switch to another team. There's no process for changing teams and from what I saw they have terrible WLB, hence don't want to take this route. I doubt I'll get to SDE-2 In another year, and have been entertaining the idea to jump ship for some time now. Seeing discussions on blind saying that <1yoe is effectively treated as a new grad, I've been ignoring this thought, but I want to hear from others instead of making my own assumptions. My doubts: 1. Should I switch before having something like 1.5-2 yoe? Is switching early a black mark on my resume? (No career goals for now, will probably just chase higher TC) 2. Will not working on development affect by chances of getting a development role in future? 3. Am I overthinking in my decision making? In case it makes any difference, It'll take me 1-2 months to brush up my LC skills so I'll actually be interviewing with around 11-12 months of experience rather than whatever I have rn. Blind tax: TC: 15 lpa base + 0-10% bonus + 5lpa ESOP (paper money for now, since no IPO in sight) Exp: 10 months #engineering #software #swe

Oracle ghkk Feb 1, 2022

Switch man .... I switched in 6 months from Oracle and its been really great for me

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fhhnmm Feb 1, 2022

Where did you go?

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unsatisfie OP Feb 1, 2022

@ghkk Also curious about what made you move away? And what did you have to tell the new HR about switching so early?

Indeed pndichery Feb 1, 2022

It's very unlikely to get sde-2 at <2 year experience. So, it's probably better to switch as soon as possible if you are not liking it. Once you cross 1 or 1.5 year the choice of lateral shift would seem more difficult. You can get a decent TC jump in swe1 itself given your current comp.

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unsatisfie OP Feb 1, 2022

I'm not looking for SDE-2 promo at all, I mentioned it to know if it makes sense to start from zero again in a new company just because I don't like the work, since the new company won't necessarily be better than current one, or maybe I'm overthinking (never doing a job switch is probably part of the reason) Also, by lateral shift are you referring to moving away from DevOps?