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Consulting is always a way to go? Having a track record of success over a long period of time makes it easier for businesses to hire you. To be fair, around the
by papertrail-work 3y ago
Consulting is always a way to go? Having a track record of success over a long period of time makes it easier for businesses to hire you. To be fair, around the 45 ish age, I would expect most folks to have evolved to a senior+ where it should be more about architecting systems and figuring out how to solve business problems then just executing on code.
I saw plenty of those folks 50+ at FANG-ish companies whilst working in the Bay but ofc that's just an anecdote.
- refulgentis 3y agoI'm heading toward that trail, put my time in at FAANG and it's time to move on. Any tips on how to get started? I'm as unclear on how to build a serious consulting shop, as I was when I was 22, a waiter with some self-taught iPhone OS experience. Which I guess makes sense, I wasn't building business relationships from deep within a FAANG org chart as a SWE.
- mooreds 3y agoI wrote up some tips here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3552 https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3552 (based on over a decade of consulting)