Hi All,
May be i am being too ambitious,but i am wondering how can i get into those high salary jobs like in Google/FB/Microsoft/Netflix etc..
I feel that my career path is not in the right way.My technical background and professional timelibes is shown below.
YOE : Total 6 years.
3 years in India as a Software Engineer with SQL server and .Net framework.
CS Masters in USA
3 years as SQL DBA and BI developer in a BI tool (Lets just say COGNOS)
i am interested in different techologies and so i am always learning (not bluffing like in an HR interview).
I have done online courses in Node.js,
IOS development,No SQL db,Tensor Flow -Machine learning etc.I do these online courses because i get excited about these technologies and hope i could do something in those but i never get real chance to work in those.
I am just thinking how would i change my career path so i can get into one of those companies with big salary.
I just feel that since i am already at a place in my career where i am not cosidered a suitable person since my skills are either too focussed or too diverse.
Not sure where i should start to learn/plan for such an opportunity.?
#roadmap #career
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So let’s say you’re hiring for a new team and your plan is to make the team be a some very expensive employees and a some less expensive employees.
What differences are there between the guys that get hired at higher salary vs lower salary? What differences are there between the guys that get hired for high salary vs the guys who apply for the position but don’t get it? How do you decide whether to go for a fewer but more expensive employees vs more but cheaper employees?
If you want the big money, you have to convince company management of two things. First, that you are likely to bring in big value to the team. Second, that you are likely to being more value than your competitors (other job seekers)
I bet there are tons of things you could do in your spare time (reading books, personal projects, etc) that would make you more enticing to company management.
But whether you do AI, front end web, iOS, Android, backend, full stack, management, etc.... the general expectation is that if you’re getting paid well it’s because you have skills and experiences that set you apart from the crowd.
What helped you in achieving this level?
The only thing keeping people from achieving high TC is the motivation to get skills where they need to be and location.
So I convinced my manager to restart a project from cold storage, coded it up using Django and ReactJS as a pilot while working on a side project on my own (to ensure that I at least knew enough to clear interviews), stamped it on my resume and cleared the interviews (got very few interviews due to low quality resume).
Then I worked hard to learn django in the new team, got lucky with a small NodeJS-ReactJS project, understood DBs. All this while not letting others know I was, in fact, an impostor. I continued learned various productivity tools, support tools and tech, linux tools, etc. And continued to clear my concepts.
Now I am shifting my job again for higher TC and I was selling like hotcake when I was interviewing. I cleared Tech Lead roles, senior engineer roles and data engineer (ML) roles. Going for Senior Engineer role (with option for data engineering) because I still have shit tons to learn such as designing, LLD, HLD, distributed and scaled systems, becoming better at reading documentation, being more resourceful, taking lead (before actually becoming a lead), etc.
YOE-5.75 (incl. 2.75 years of coasting), effective exp - 3 yrs
TLDR: Strategise and work your ass off. There is no alternative to studying. You are on blind. So, at the very least, you are resourceful. You'll get there.