Just told a company to withdraw my candidacy prior to my final interview round (5 hour long interview for software consultancy position).

Pros of job: Income post college

Cons of job: Not software engineering,
Low salary at 65k,
4 months of paid training which might sound nice but I know that will come with contracts that I cannot sign with other companies that compete for 1 or two years,
I have to work on semester projects on Sunday I really dont have time to prep for interview,
I know people who do this kind of work and absolutely dread it, they end up becoming very rusty at programming if they stay too long and inhibits them from getting higher paying software dev jobs


Did I goof hard? I have another final interview tuesday and I am really banking hard on this one

They can go shove that $65k up their azz.

So youre saying i didnt goof?srs??

lol hell yea that made me laugh ty brah

I’d say you made the right decision. Stick to what you want to do u til you absolutely have to settle. If you don’t you may regret it. Everyone has to start somewhere but if it’s not the field you want to be in I don’t blame you.

That 65k will be looking mighty nice once you are on the street giving $20 handjobs, op.

Goofed. Esp if the noncompete was the biggest issue.


You know they are basically unenforceable and you are a poverty $65k worker no way they go after you lmao!

You goofed IMO OP.

After graduating with a Bachelor's in Comp Sci my first job was $60k/yr, which is closer to like $70k/yr in today's dollars I guess, in a role of Cybersecurity. A lot of people I knew who had great GPAs from college in Comp Sci went off to make 40k-70k/yr in their first job.

I do think it's important to, you know, actually have a good idea of the general future and how you'll grow/develop in your first job to jumpstart your career as a whole. And I do agree that some of the things you identified kinda make me concerned about that a bit. But you can work around those problems, and accept it for what it is even though it's not optimal. For example, you mention people grow rusty in programming and facing inhibition getting future better jobs, this means you'll have to work on your more relevant languages and continue to develop your programming skills during your off time, study/code maybe an hour a day for this, and the issue will be resolved.

Also, most entry jobs are never optimal and have sacrifices in some way. Whether it's lower pay, crappy commute, crappy benefits, getting assigned the chitty work, etc. You're a risk, you probably have very little or zero relevant work experience, just evidence of formal education.

What’s that $4800 monthly after taxes


I hope you’re good with money boyo

Gotta take a chance on what you want, might work, might not, better than wondering what could have been.

Yea you make good points, maybe complaining about the salary is a bad mindset.. I am not sure if I would have withdrawn if I didnt have another interview on tuesday. This position is 65-70k base salary plus 8 percent bonus and more programming involved so hopefully Ive hedged my bets correctly and do good on this interview..

yea the interview on tuesday isnt the perfect job but much more aligned with what I am looking for and a little bit more money. My mom gave me some extra time until the end of June before she kicks me out so I have a little more time to search post graduation