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Remember that at any time: - Salesforce could announce a massive change in priorities. - Salesforce could be bought by a competitor. - Salesforce could be [m
by dsr_ 6y ago
Remember that at any time:
- Salesforce could announce a massive change in priorities.
- Salesforce could be bought by a competitor.
- Salesforce could be [more slowly] replaced by a competitor.
The odds of any of these things happening in the next year are probably quite low. The odds of something like this happening in the next ten years is pretty high.
I can't speak to whether the work is interesting or not -- I would assume that's it's not much different from any other general business programming jobs -- but IMHO, having general skills and being able to learn new techniques is key to having a long-term career in IT.
- j45 6y agoPicking winners: The same can be said for using brittle cutting edge, immature tech stacks having a limited shelf life and not worth learning if something else comes along. Another example is Shopify, folks want help with it in a Wordpress, but more approachable audience.
- travisjungroth 6y agoSalesforce is a 200 billion dollar company. I see the odds of them being bought by a competitor as pretty low.
- TrinaryWorksToo 6y agoYeah that's true. But that's true of most technologies. OP should weight how easily they could pivot if any of that came true.