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Fantastic post. I'd also recommend any "programmers" to invest a couple years in a systems integration engineering role as well. It's generally a great place
by xarien 15y ago
Fantastic post. I'd also recommend any "programmers" to invest a couple years in a systems integration engineering role as well. It's generally a great place for picking up some skills many programmers / engineers lack:
* Communicating with internal and external customers
* Understand systems from a broader (higher level) perspective
* Ability to translate wants and needs to technical requirements and specifications that are implementable
* Ability to sell yourself as well as the product / service
* Give constructive criticism as an internal customer to programmers / software engineers (great chance to view the role @ 180 degrees)
- viraptor 15y agoI'd also add - meet all the influential people in different teams. From my limited experience, even if you're on a low position you suddenly start talking to team leaders and people who they assign to talk to you (usually the ones who have a clue). Great start for networking.
- xarien 15y agoHonestly, for networking purposes, look no further than participating and volunteering in a national non-profit group. It'll give you access to both depth and breadth.