Should one try doing different things early in the career for example try different roles in software engineering, data science, product to see which role one likes the most
Or
Should one try doing the same thing for some years early in the career to allow the compounding to kick in and you have something with depth to show for when you have 3-4 years of experience. y
Thoughts ?
Classic explore vs exploit conundrum in philosophy/machine learning.
yess…exactly the same..Looking for anecdotes from people who have tried different flavours of explore vs exploit
In my opinion, there is never gonna be a general answer. Am myself in similar rut with higher YoE, so i would suggest breadth in early days. But at some point you need to be able to dive in. Best judge for that would be yourself based on work that you get to do. You would need to prioritize challenge/culture/pay/learning/respect/impact etc.
Same question as Principal (depth) vs Director!
this is a late career stage decision…I am talking of an early career decision…asking this…since most people follow the conventional route of SDE-1,SDE-2 and SDE-3 early in the career instead of exploring around
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Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!
A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup
About my career:
Context- Let's say you are at a job position for 2yrs now. You have gotten bored of it. You started off with the exponential learning curve, but now, you feel even if you get linear it would be damn good.
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