I'm being team matched at this big top 150 company right now and the role I've been offered so far is one for internal tooling with less than 100 users and a Go/Typescript stack with a few AWS lambdas (Are Go skills even viewed as transferrable to other full stack positions? Its so niche).
This company would be a big upgrade from my smaller level defense contractor job but I really don't want to keep working on small time stuff that has no large scale impact.
Do I put my head down and take the job hoping to eventually transfer to a bigger impact/scale team that better first my skills (Python/Java/Typescript) or keep looking elsewhere? I'm not optimistic I'll be able to navigate my way to a much better position during team matching and could use some guidance.
#Worried my growth will be handicapped 3 YOE
untold peak
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Sounds like a step in the right direction to me. Even if you don’t work on large scale projects or issues you’ll still be exposed to software development in a larger scale business which carries a lot more name recognition (I’m assuming). Plus you can always keep looking. What about the other aspects though? Would you need to relocate? Do you want to? Is it a pay increase? Etc etc, all very individualist things
untold peak
Sounds like a step in the right direction to me. Even if you don’t work on large...
Absolutely a solid point. And the pay should be higher (maybe not by a lot but enough), no need to relocate (it’s actually closer than my current office), I really want to see what life is like outside of small time defense contracting so this is something I want to do. I have a couple leads for other companies but nothing to this scale