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This seems an irrational decision, as tech first companies also use c#, and you are ruling them out because of a general trend.

decafninja 5y ago
Curious - other than Stack Overflow and obviously Microsoft, what other well known tech companies use .NET as their primary stack? In any case, before I removed mention of C#/.NET on my profile and resume, I would be bombarded with recruiter e-mails and phone calls advertising jobs at old school cost center companies, most of them paying very poorly too. After removing C#/.NET, these have gradually declined, and nowadays any recruiter that contacts me is for a job/company that I would generally be more interested in.
- masterof0 5y ago
  Tesla uses the .Net Core/Angular combo for internal tools.
  - hackerfromthefu 5y ago
    Do they pay well? SpaceX apparently doesn't
    - masterof0 5y ago
      Compared with FAANGs and unicorns , not really, but if you believe their stock will explore in the future, is worth a try, I guess?
      - decafninja 5y ago
        Aside from pay, having SpaceX on your resume will probably open doors in the future that having some cost center company may not. Pretty sure SpaceX and Tesla would pay competitively to most cost center companies too. Though I hear Elon works his employees hard.
- mandeepj 5y ago
  Every big company has some use of .net in some capacity. To name a couple familiar ones - Google, Amazon etc
  - decafninja 5y ago
    Exactly - but they are not the primary stack by far. To be fair, you can certainly get into a FAANG as a .NET developer (I've seen ex-coworkers do this) so long as you can pass the leetcode gauntlet like anyone else. As I said above, my decision is more about filtering out many of those companies that use .NET as their primary stack because I've found far more often than not, they aren't the best companies to work for as a SWE.
    - mandeepj 5y ago
      I don't think any company (above certain size) would stick to just one stack. Technologies change considerably from one team to another. I agree Google and Amazon are exceptions.

decafninja 5y ago

Curious - other than Stack Overflow and obviously Microsoft, what other well known tech companies use .NET as their primary stack? In any case, before I removed mention of C#/.NET on my profile and resume, I would be bombarded with recruiter e-mails and phone calls advertising jobs at old school cost center companies, most of them paying very poorly too. After removing C#/.NET, these have gradually declined, and nowadays any recruiter that contacts me is for a job/company that I would generally be more interested in.

masterof0 5y ago
Tesla uses the .Net Core/Angular combo for internal tools.
- hackerfromthefu 5y ago
  Do they pay well? SpaceX apparently doesn't
  - masterof0 5y ago
    Compared with FAANGs and unicorns , not really, but if you believe their stock will explore in the future, is worth a try, I guess?
    - decafninja 5y ago
      Aside from pay, having SpaceX on your resume will probably open doors in the future that having some cost center company may not. Pretty sure SpaceX and Tesla would pay competitively to most cost center companies too. Though I hear Elon works his employees hard.
mandeepj 5y ago
Every big company has some use of .net in some capacity. To name a couple familiar ones - Google, Amazon etc
- decafninja 5y ago
  Exactly - but they are not the primary stack by far. To be fair, you can certainly get into a FAANG as a .NET developer (I've seen ex-coworkers do this) so long as you can pass the leetcode gauntlet like anyone else. As I said above, my decision is more about filtering out many of those companies that use .NET as their primary stack because I've found far more often than not, they aren't the best companies to work for as a SWE.
  - mandeepj 5y ago
    I don't think any company (above certain size) would stick to just one stack. Technologies change considerably from one team to another. I agree Google and Amazon are exceptions.