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Originally Posted by KonaldDuth
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Alternatives to "real" development are
- QA Engineer (basically, a manual tester)
- Support Engineer (basically, someone who files bug reports)
- Content Developer (basically, someone who fills in HTML tags with words)
to name a few. I don't think anyone who thinks of themself as a programmer would take those roles as a 1st choice, but they make for great consolation prizes at MSFT, GOOG, etc. because you can still make $70k in those positions at those companies and apply internally for real development positions later.
As I mentioned earlier, Program Manager is a role that many of the top companies want CS grads to go into. Most CS grads I know who work at Microsoft are Program Managers. You'll make more than a Level-1 Software Engineer ($150k versus $100k at Microsoft).
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i've never had a project/program/director manager who was a computer scientist. i would assume most programmers/engineers would prefer not to have those jobs since they are not
real technology roles. i dont know anyone at ms. but i graduated with people at intel, panasonic aviation, aetna, fbi, army cecom, lockheed martin, ...
like i said before, your too tunnel-focused on engineers that wanna' work for silicon valley.
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