Good company with bad project or a start-up with good projec

saravanakumar radhakrishnan

Hi all, I am a .Net dev with 10y exp. I am working in a big stable product company who cares employees and having decent pay. Unfortunately I am working in a bad project which is running in asp.net forms n tired monolith. And is no room for technical improvements like cloud, microservices. I am fixing bugs for 4 years.

I always do learn, learnt angular, node, Python, ddd, azure and microservices. I am looking for job. But I am not getting selected into Because I don't hold a project exp.

However I got selected into a service based start-up that builds ai services for clients, with a very good compensation but they are using only java and node.

Am i taking risk by joining startup? And is it practical to mater in Java and node this late.?

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Mahesh Chand4y ago
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It's a great questions actually and many developers are stuck in same situation where the company is good, pay is good but the work is not rewarding or satisfying. And I totally understand it. There are a few ways to go from here. First, ask if your company has any other projects that have some learning opportunities and let them know how you feel. Second option is join this new company. I know moving from .NET/C# o Java/Node is a new field and there is going to be a learnig curve. That is upto you if you really want to learn new language/framework. Advantage of learning Java/Node is, you're adding one more skillset to your arsenel. The challenge is, you will still be a beginner in the field. Other option is, keep learning yourself and keep trying and find something that is rewarding and still in .NET and C#. If you want to stick with .NET and C#, learn Blazor, .NET 5/6, new features, some Azure and I'm sure there are plenty of jobs out there. Get certified in these that will help you.

Good luck!
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Mahesh Chand4y ago
If you ask me, taking risk is an important part of growth. When you work in different type of projects, with different types of people, communicate with different end users, and use different technologies, you learn a lot. As long as you're in it for learning and hard work, taking risk becomes very rewarding.
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saravanakumar radhakrishnan4y ago
Thanks mahesh for your answers. Actually i have tried to move to internal projects but they also looking for real time project experienced candidates only. I am already lead developer so they are looking for someone who mastered in microservices and cloud native.

Because of that and its not easy to get offers with little project experience so I am thinking to join even it's painful and risky.

I can wait and search but another year will pass by so going to take risk.
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