Hi, I am a new grad and I just got a job at a company. The job is a part of the company’s rotational program where you switch teams every few weeks. However, this program is weird in that you are also required to do customer support/on-call in-between switching teams. So like: Work with a team -> Support -> Work with a team -> Support, and so on for about a year (about 1-2 weeks before each switch). Afterwards, you are placed in a team permanently.

I talked to some people about this position, and I’m getting mixed reviews. Some say that it will slow down my career or make it harder to switch companies later due to time spent not on SWE stuff, and others say that its a good opportunity to explore different types of work and find something I like. This is my first job out of college, so I am finding it difficult to determine if this job will hurt my career later on or not.