I’m a new grad and took a HW job at Jacobs for TC:68k, seeing all of the amazing SW salaries would my best bet to make some connections in our SW departments, do an internal transfer to a jr position gain 1 yOE and transfer to a better company for SWE within Portland OR? Thanks for any similar stories/advice. Languages used internally are C/C++/Java/Python so would this be a good skill set to take somewhere else? #newfieldexploration #SWE #engineering #software
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If you're interested in software, that definitely seems like a good plan to increase TC. Especially if you have programming experience in college, best to make the transfer as early in your career as possible when expectations aren't as high. Seems like a decent set of languages to have, especially if you can focus on the Java/Python. C is really mostly used in a few very specialized roles (hardware/firmware development, etc) and won't be particularly useful if you're looking for a general SWE role at a tech company. C++ is also used and having some experience with it will force you to learn a lot of stuff that is easy to gloss over until it's too late and you've caused a SEV with higher level languages (like avoiding memory leaks). But it's not *as* used in general tech companies as Java/Python
Awesome thank you for the thorough reply. And yeah I agree the earlier I can switch the better. the company offers some free courses on it and I feel like if I get a little exposure through that and make a good connection I can transfer internally pretty easily. I’ll start doing some LC easies and maybe some mediums if I can manage as well.