How can i get into these 150K/250K high paying jobs ?

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cruze_110

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cruze_110
Feb 23, 2020 33 Comments

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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  • Samsung
    🧙🏼‍♂️☄️

    Go to company page Samsung

    🧙🏼‍♂️☄️
    #leetcode and 🙏
    Feb 24, 2020 0
  • Apple
    TWB-gold

    Go to company page Apple

    TWB-gold
    Just imagine you were in charge of software engineering at a top company. Most of your budget is going towards paying the salaries of employees. Some of it will go to running data centers and what not but it’s not that expensive. You have a big budget compared to small companies. But it’s still a limited budget. If you don’t get good value for the money you spend, you might find yourself regretting some of those hires that you made.

    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.
    Feb 24, 2020 3
    • New
      cruze_110

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      cruze_110
      OP
      I appreciate and agree to you perspective .But i am trying to get some advice on whether i should change my current career direction and move forward or do something totally different.
      Feb 24, 2020
    • Apple
      TWB-gold

      Go to company page Apple

      TWB-gold
      @cruze_110 it’s hard for me to give you a satisfying answer because your question is not very specific. There are dozens of software related jobs that pay well. You mentioned studying iOS programming and machine learning. But the high paying jobs in those fields are probably not the beginners. They are probably going to the people with a moderate to high amount of experience or education in those fields.

      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.
      Feb 24, 2020
  • Google
    KahKeLunga

    Go to company page Google

    KahKeLunga
    Aim higher to get high. Practice Try Fail Repeat until you get what you want. I started my career with TCS.
    Feb 24, 2020 1
  • Don’t get your hopes up. Sounds like you’ve been doing the wrong things for many years and now you want top TC... lol, why not become a footballer? Probably same odds. Be happy with what you got, and understand you’ve got only yourself to thank.
    Feb 28, 2020 5
    • Slack
      sl@ck

      Go to company page Slack

      sl@ck
      Don’t listen to people who act like getting in to FAANG or similar high TC companies is so difficult. It’s not as hard as getting in to pro sports or anything similar at all. Get your skills up and apply, it’s that simple.

      The only thing keeping people from achieving high TC is the motivation to get skills where they need to be and location.
      Mar 20, 2020
    • Facebook
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      Go to company page Facebook

      <<((fb))>>
      Agree. I did major career switch and within 3 years was in faang. It’s really not unachievable. What id suggest is taking the advice in these comments, getting onto a path you feel is more directional but at a startup or smaller company. Once you’re there, zero issue getting into top company. People come from all sorts of backgrounds. Do not listen to people who discourage you.
      Mar 24, 2020
  • Keep learning and do some side projects to internalise it and leetcode. I was in the correct trajectory but went into coasting mode for three years and nearly became unemployable. By 3.5 years, my skills were just core python, html/jquery and writing queries.

    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.
    Mar 1, 2020 1