u/IsmailiCanuk wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
>Their outcomes advisor continuously states in lecture that taking a junior job is the worst thing you can do for your career, even at a FAANG company. So people get drilled into this idea of only taking mid level and senior roles. Why is that?
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I can only give second hand information from first hand students, employees, former employees, so take it with a grain of salt.
The reasoning provided, summarized across a few people with similar versions - all being told this from the same employee, was that 'entry level jobs at FAANG are full of grunt work and easy problems that you are overqualified to solve' and that 'mid level and senior jobs involve hard problems that Codesmith is training you to solve'
Even if you believe the argument (which I strongly do not), I don't know why that means that your career though is hindered by it.
I've heard from numerous people over a year or so now that: the outcomes advisor's negotiation strategy is 'just ask for $150K, only a mid level engineer would ask for that so it help legitimize your position' and from the head of instruction: 'the OSP projects are mid level work equivalent to several months on the job and you need to get credit for them'. PARAPHRASED AND SUMMARIZING NOT QUOTES.
So my hunch is that the approach is most effective for non-tech smaller companies that don't really do their homework or have calibrated interview processes and doesn't work at all at FAANG companies. But just a personal opinion that I have evidence if this is intentional or not.