Being a developer at a non tech company is great. My role tends to blur between salesforce amin and developer, but that’s partly because of the small size of the company (less than 100 employees total, less than 10 in IT).
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoYeah, I was pretty skeptical with my current job:
- Recruiter contacted me, I didn’t contact them
- Interview done by Indians, full remote
- I had never heard of the company
But everything checked out, and I love the job. It’s not a tech company, but it has the best parts of one (proper AGILE processes, separated QA, dev, and devOPs roles, modem tech stack, etc).
So be careful of scams, but not so careful you miss out on great opportunities.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
We’re a bigger company (publicly traded outside the US, thousands of employees), but we’re a manufacturer, so most of the headcount is blue collar. Our department is medium sized (about 30 full time, plus about 20 from outside firms), so it feels like a smallish company with large company benefits.
It’s a nice niche. It doesn’t pay as well as the big tech companies, but I almost never work more than 8 hours and frequently less. It’s pretty chill and has great work/life balance. I work in office 2x/week and remote the other two days.
It’s a pretty decent gig, but definitely seemed sketchy when I joined (I was like the fifth FT employee, so most of the headcount was in another hemisphere). No regrets, but I was watching my paychecks pretty closely for a month or so to make sure they didn’t pull anything weird (to be fair, I was hired full remote during COVID).
bitwolf@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Are they still looking for talent?
My current job is taking advantage of the market and drastically changing things for the worse and I’m feeling stuck, far away from my family and friends.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, we’re almost always hiring. We currently have positions for a mid level to senior BE (Python), senior devOPs (AWS and preferably coding exp), and mid level QA (Java testing). We’re hoping to build another complete team once we fill those other positions (so 2-3 BE, 2-3 FE).
However, I’d prefer not to disclose who I work for exactly, nor can I give a recommendation online, but I work for a company in Utah near SLC, and we expect hires to be local.
But I highly doubt my company is particularly unique. Tech is tough right now, so look around at non-tech companies that are hiring for tech roles, you might just find a gem. :)
expr@programming.dev 6 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yup, a lot are nonsense though. There are so many that are like “we want you to come work with us,” and then I can and it’s no different than me sending in a resume normally, they just want to expand their hiring pool.
But whatever, I hate looking for jobs, so it’s nice that I didn’t have to try to hard this time.