SWE Infra vs Product (@Meta)

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Going to be joining Meta soon as a new grad swe and although it is quite early, I want to choose a pathway to specialise in so I maximise my TC. My prior experience involves full-stack work and I would say I'm very comfortable to it compared to my knowledge of system programming (which is very little atm)

I have an opportunity to work on Rust backend/system programming but also another to work as an Android Engineer.

What is easier to get promotions for and lead to more TC? Infra vs Product?

henrydatascience · Accepted Answer

Pick whichever you enjoy more, because there’s not going to be a cheat code that we can guarantee success with.

Kennethdashen · Answer

I'm HPC Infrastructure at TensorWave and my hands are in everything. It was the same way when I was at ServiceNow too. You can dive in to assist any team when you know the entire infrastructure....and yes I get paid to code in Rust.It's really awesome. And we are hiring.

Sentient · Answer

I’m at Meta. Go with Product if that’s what you’ve got more experience with. You’ll want to ship impact as quickly as possible. Once you’re at Meta you have access to pretty much every piece of infrastructure and source code anyways. You can always start contributing cross-org changes and switch to another team later.

vishalm · Answer

Product for sure... Infra is always considered a supporting function

madscience · Answer

I'd say product if you're just going for as much money as possible in the future, but both will be beneficial and I would definitely suggest rolling with whatever you find more interesting.

SWE Infra vs Product (@Meta)

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