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I have extended family (two brothers, two nieces, one niece's husband, one nephew) all into Salesforce.com/SFDC development. Four of them successfully ran a SF
by nwatson 7y ago
I have extended family (two brothers, two nieces, one niece's husband, one nephew) all into Salesforce.com/SFDC development.
Four of them successfully ran a SFDC consulting business for several years with many good clients and lots of junior and senior developers and architects (I joined briefly after leaving SF Bay Area but decided I should go back to building products). The business ran into family-business-squabble problems between two of the principals and dissolved ... however they all stayed in the SFDC game and have done very well, making significantly more (even considering they're contracting) on long-term stable contracts than their software experience would net them at established SF Bay Area companies ... and they all live in much lower cost-of-living areas. I don't think the SFDC game will go away any time soon, either.
There are probably some interesting SFDC development niches, but I would have struggled to maintain interest.
- stallmanite 7y agoAs an outsider these descriptions sound like Avon or Mary Kay or Amway.
- mattmanser 7y agoSalesforce is awful to develop in. The worst designed language, terrible tools, poor feedback, inscrutable gotchas. An abhorrent mix of the worst parts of Java with the worst parts of SQL. Everything is utterly rubbish, there is absolutely nothing positive about it. But it's great to put your sales process on for a slightly techy person. Sort of the modern equivalent of access. Needless to say, that means no developer wants to touch it with a bargepole. So if you're prepared to put up with all that, you can make a lot of money doing ridiculously simple things.
- ziziyO 7y agoIt's cult-y for sure. The money is there for the taking, much in the way a COBOL programmer can name their price.