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post 1634834503 03-28-2021, 11:14 AM
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Just quit software engineering and switched to its business corpie side [reps] [srs]

-- Did an internship at Big Tech and did a job in a financial institution on the tech side.

-- Coding, especially Android, can be very fun if the project is from scratch.

-- 75-80% industry opportunities DO NOT have this, have a lot of established codebase learning and **** work, such as migrating tech or configuration.

-- Sometimes you have new projects, but design/creative **** is either in joining start-ups or creating one (risks are stability and pay).


-- Switching to Business Analyst* is great if you are not autistic and can be sociable and blubber like a politician. I even have a tech background.

-- You do less complex work and you end up getting promoted whilst not being stuck clawing through error logs.

-- All directors in tech (look up Google CEO) probably have never coded in their lives and they have History degrees from Stanford and then save face with a good MBA.


Just work hard and enjoy the meritocracy of life. Not srs


reps till I am out, I am happy to be out



*promotion track is to Product Manager and **** like that compared to Software Engineer - Software Engineering Manager (ceiling).
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The more money you make the less you do. Funny how that works out.
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grats bro, glad you are making it srs
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post 1634834903 03-28-2021, 11:20 AM
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Was telling my gf she could make a switch from engineering to finance for dat dere higher pay ceiling

Congrats boyo repped
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it's a good move srs. You pretty much nailed it. 80% of software engineering jobs are awful in terms of the work you do. The pay is decent but the advancement is cucked.

Just LOL if 90% of your job isn't based on soft skills. Getting paid to manage, take clients to lunches, playing golf is the GOAT life.
post 1634835463 03-28-2021, 11:27 AM
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Welcome to corporate finance boyo. Earnings potential significantly increased with move. And like you said don’t be an autist, be able to communicate, and have a personality.

Good luck.
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post 1634837383 03-28-2021, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted By eatmycrackers⏩
Was telling my gf she could make a switch from engineering to finance for dat dere higher pay ceiling

Congrats boyo repped
I am not in finance but is an option to go back for a masters in finance and do IB

just you can't simply go from software to senior IB or senior Finance jockey because it usually means starting over
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The more money you make the less you do. Funny how that works out.
and to add a senior colleague's phrase who left to start a business "the better you are in your job, the higher the chance you are kept at that position"
Originally Posted By SillieBazzillie⏩
Welcome to corporate finance boyo. Earnings potential significantly increased with move. And like you said don’t be an autist, be able to communicate, and have a personality.

Good luck.
Corporate finance is not business though brah, it is just reports and a lot of times accounting.

I wouldn't even say BA in tech is "business". Unless you are a business owner, no such thing as working in the business.

I am on that track where you are the client-facing and manage strategy and feature development (BA, Product, inclusive of Project, Manager).

Google CEO is like that:
Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.[17] Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome[18] and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.[19][20] On November 19, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS; the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012.[21] On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM.[22]

On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw. Android was formerly managed by Andy Rubin.[23] He was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013.[24][25][26] Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015[27] after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On October 24, 2015 he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company family.[28][26][29]
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post 1634837503 03-28-2021, 12:04 PM
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OP you're use to working alone.

You want to work with everyone and their problems now? Hehehe. Let us know how this goes in 5 years.
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Originally Posted By tk217⏩
OP you're use to working alone.

You want to work with everyone and their problems now? Hehehe. Let us know how this goes in 5 years.
No, I started it and it is great.


Deep technical stuff I don't care about anymore, not my job.


Got promoted to do this and I work less and meet with more girls on meetings and stare at their sexy legs and calling it "a productive meeting".


Coding can be done for my personal projects, not a large codebase cog-in-machine style.

Originally Posted By SOcuteLOVEthat⏩
also LOL @ 1st yr business analyst comparing his path to sundar pichai

to go from indian immigrant family to CEO of top 5 company in the world means you are a legit genius visionary and smart in ways an average wagecuck like you cannot understand srs.
never said I will be like him but the average same path thing on average offers better outcome for the 50th percentiles (like me probably)
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post 1634838193 03-28-2021, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
No, I started it and it is great.


Deep technical stuff I don't care about anymore, not my job.


Got promoted to do this and I work less and meet with more girls on meetings and stare at their sexy legs and calling it "a productive meeting".


Coding can be done for my personal projects, not a large codebase cog-in-machine style.





never said I will be like him but the average same path thing on average offers better outcome for the 50th percentiles (like me probably)
Ooooh. Good luck, OP.
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Business analyst is not a step lmao. Also if you aren’t number one in a room or go to top colleges you aren’t made to be an exec
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
-- Coding, especially Android, can be very fun if the project is from scratch.

-- 75-80% industry opportunities DO NOT have this, have a lot of established codebase learning and **** work, such as migrating tech or configuration.

-- Sometimes you have new projects, but design/creative **** is either in joining start-ups or creating one (risks are stability and pay).
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
Got promoted to do this and I work less and meet with more girls on meetings and stare at their sexy legs and calling it "a productive meeting".
Claims not to be an autist.
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Originally Posted By MaximumCapacity⏩
Business analyst is not a step lmao. Also if you aren’t number one in a room or go to top colleges you aren’t made to be an exec
what do you mean not a step? you mean a step up?

I never said I went another step - that is a senior BA or PM, I just switched to the equivalent. It was easy because social skills and I have an actual tech background.

And your mentality is quite the crab mentality.

The average Product Manager is in a much better position from every angle than the average Software Engineering Manager.

And I did my Comp Sci in a top school and will do an MBA from a top school NP. **** chance to be an exec but the leftover **** is much better than the leftover **** in pure engineering roles. Not to mention that the engineer monkeys do not have a chance at exec at all.
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post 1634839523 03-28-2021, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted By tk217⏩
Ooooh. Good luck, OP.
Originally Posted By yabbayabba⏩
Claims not to be an autist.
I mean the meeting is useless. What do you want me to do, homos?


Then I do actually product management work, the devs report why the thing cannot be configured and I throw another **** thing for them to do.
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If you going down the bsa path. Learn oracle cloud or oracle ebs and become a functional consultant. They easily are over 120+ per hour.
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Can you code a mobile app for me? I'll pay you


React for fronted, and whatever you want for backend
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post 1634841053 03-28-2021, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted By AWSbruh⏩
If you going down the bsa path. Learn oracle cloud or oracle ebs and become a functional consultant. They easily are over 120+ per hour.
yes, I already know all of this learning for the interview.

ba/pm in a company is in-house but not sure how u can do it on your own as a person company. usually, the work is given to consultancies

I am talking more of where you are a product manager of a software product in a company or whatever


but all relevant stuff cheers for the inputttt
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Congrats man, engineers and coders are the tradies of the tech world

Who would u rather be? The boss or some loser tradie?
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OP is just mad he couldn't get a job at a top tier tech company
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Originally Posted By UknowWho11⏩
OP is just mad he couldn't get a job at a top tier tech company
I did my internship at FAANG but omitted a grad offer to get more pay in the trading arm of a financial institution.


All of my friends at FAANG who stayed say that it is a hit or miss just like how I laid out in the OP.


Can you elaborate, I am open to criticisms.
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Lol you switched from a developer to an analyst? Absolutely no respect for analysts. They do jack chit. Congrats on being a leech OP.
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more like business "COPIE"

big mistake. srs.
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Originally Posted By ShakeBrah⏩
Lol you switched from a developer to an analyst? Absolutely no respect for analysts. They do jack chit. Congrats on being a leech OP.
exactly. and you have directors with history degrees being in charge making a ****ton of pay

I can actually do something in that position better because I do have an understanding

just don't wanna be deep in bugs

I can do all the **** in my personal projects that directly benefit me
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more like business "COPIE"

big mistake. srs.
see above

based on my experiences it is not a mistake

all corporate work is a cope, I will never even try to delude myself otherwise
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Originally Posted By Beast92⏩
Congrats man, engineers and coders are the tradies of the tech world

Who would u rather be? The boss or some loser tradie?
jfl
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lol at copecels hating on OPie. ITT Analyst -> Management path much easier than from dev, still need to be like top half of analysts to move up though, which generally isnt hard considering most analyst types are goobers who majored in business admin or some chit. If youre not retarded/autistic and have any business sense you can mog them by having both that and even a general sense of dev/coding.

How long were you a software engineer before making this switch OP? If still pretty early in your career not a big deal to switch tracks, if youve put like 5-10 years in already kind of a downgrade if you didnt at least get senior analyst
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Originally Posted By yumaddamuy⏩
lol at copecels hating on OPie. ITT Analyst -> Management path much easier than from dev, still need to be like top half of analysts to move up though, which generally isnt hard considering most analyst types are goobers who majored in business admin or some chit. If youre not retarded/autistic and have any business sense you can mog them by having both that and even a general sense of dev/coding.

How long were you a software engineer before making this switch OP? If still pretty early in your career not a big deal to switch tracks, if youve put like 5-10 years in already kind of a downgrade if you didnt at least get senior analyst
I am 23 years old, I have 1.5 years of experience post-graduating and 8 months combined internships throughout my bachelor. All in software dev. I still do some dev as I am transitioning via shadowing as well. But I am a dev from a grad scheme and I am doing the BA equivalent of that. No downgrade.


I hate the corporate jungle as, unlike lawyer/medicine, it is more of a jungle than set paths. But from observations / trying to decode/rationalise it seems like there are two paths:


BA ---> Senior versions ---> Product/Project Manager types ---> Beyond

Software Developer (whatever sub-speciality, excluding admin/IT support as that, is not even in the industry) ---> Senior Software Developer ---> Software Developer Manager ---> Beyond


I just feel the former progresses faster and is considered more important for some reason. I also think the work will be better as I will not be stuck in some specific technical segment. And as you have said if I have a personality and I actually have some understanding how a business requirement translates to a proper feature and surrounding technologies, I can shine a bit more than the random non-techie.
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Originally Posted By CoolKnees⏩
The more money you make the less you do. Funny how that works out.
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