Colin62
Executive Member
Unless by 'Jag' you mean something like this http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-cars-bakkies/bethlehem/1966-jaguar-420g-sedan/1001358673560910003033709 I suspect that you're in for a little disappointment.
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How valuable is corporate experience?
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Unless by 'Jag' you mean something like this http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-cars-bakkies/bethlehem/1966-jaguar-420g-sedan/1001358673560910003033709 I suspect that you're in for a little disappointment.
Pho3nix
The Legend
What is it like then?
Colin62
Executive Member
I did see it. It made absolutely no sense to me.
I'm fine with agreeing to disagree, but do me a favour, come back and post your Jag-bonus here when you get it?
Pho3nix
The Legend
Messugga
Honorary Master
I'm a consultant, so don't work for a corporate directly, but the exec I report to received a bonus of a couple hundred k. Around 20% of her annual salary.
Colin62
Executive Member
The key word there is 'exec', and even a couple of hundred k, after tax, isn't going to pay off a Jag..
Pho3nix
The Legend
For me its more a case of it takes longer to learn the business and technologies than the 6-8 months you are mentioning on your CV and costs a bunch of money for training a new employee so why should you invest all that in someone who will just jump ship.
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
Hi all,
Happy Monday
Quick Q,
How valuable is corporate experience. In terms of when looking for a new gig.
Discuss
I hope you got high grades in Politics.
Oh, yes...and the amount of stupid you will see around you will increase by 150%.
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HavocXphere
Honorary Master
Coming from a corporate will always give you a tiny boost in that HR can safely assume you've already been through some kind of screening already & won't show up at meetings in pyjamas.
Beyond that...no benefit unless its a prestigious corp name in a relevant industry.
Beyond that...no benefit unless its a prestigious corp name in a relevant industry.
There are definitely benefits.
On your CV:
- If you've worked for a well respected company for a good amount of time, it is a good reflection on you.
- If you can show steady career advancement (promotions, increases, etc.) in such a standardized environment, even better.
- If you have contributed to a well known project, people get excited.
- For me, this was a bigger factor in getting my current job, than my qualifications.
Personal experience:
- You can get experience working at scale (valuable experience if in the future the project/company you work on needs to scale)
- i.e., working on a code base that is actively contributed to by 1200 developers, including the integration, QA and production release cycle associated with such a large project.
- Working on a massive code base that you couldn't possibly fully understand (O(10's of millions of lines of code)).
- Managing requirements and priorities (or just seeing how these are managed) for such a large environment.
- Collaborating with other groups and teams, often from other disciplines, on the same project.
- You get to see how large organizations and projects are managed (both the good and the bad) from the perspective of the engineer/developer. Getting actual management experience in this environment is also invaluable.
Networking:
- The number of people you meet and interact with in this type of environment is huge. The people who work there eventually go to other companies, and you can build up a very large network of contacts.
- Reputation: building up a solid reputation in a firm of 20 people is great, but if you do it in a firm of 10000 people, the entire industry will likely know you or know of you.
On your CV:
- If you've worked for a well respected company for a good amount of time, it is a good reflection on you.
- If you can show steady career advancement (promotions, increases, etc.) in such a standardized environment, even better.
- If you have contributed to a well known project, people get excited.
- For me, this was a bigger factor in getting my current job, than my qualifications.
Personal experience:
- You can get experience working at scale (valuable experience if in the future the project/company you work on needs to scale)
- i.e., working on a code base that is actively contributed to by 1200 developers, including the integration, QA and production release cycle associated with such a large project.
- Working on a massive code base that you couldn't possibly fully understand (O(10's of millions of lines of code)).
- Managing requirements and priorities (or just seeing how these are managed) for such a large environment.
- Collaborating with other groups and teams, often from other disciplines, on the same project.
- You get to see how large organizations and projects are managed (both the good and the bad) from the perspective of the engineer/developer. Getting actual management experience in this environment is also invaluable.
Networking:
- The number of people you meet and interact with in this type of environment is huge. The people who work there eventually go to other companies, and you can build up a very large network of contacts.
- Reputation: building up a solid reputation in a firm of 20 people is great, but if you do it in a firm of 10000 people, the entire industry will likely know you or know of you.