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I'm interning at a Big Tech company currently, and I'd disagree. While I can't speak to experiences as a full-time SDE, I very rarely interface with people ou

by jmduke 14y ago

I'm interning at a Big Tech company currently, and I'd disagree. While I can't speak to experiences as a full-time SDE, I very rarely interface with people outside my team (of ~10 people); from what I understand from my mentor, this experience is pretty universal for SDEs, though it diminishes as you take more senior roles in the company. My work and a given intern's work has literally nothing in common; in fact, talking with other interns feels like talking to people working at a completely different company.

jsolson 14y ago
It varies depending on where you go within the company. In particular, you don't have to go that far up (say, the aiming for SDE3 end of SDE2?) before there are pretty good odds that you'll either be a client of lots of other teams or have lots of clients.