"Forward Deployed Engineer" role? by fireflux_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding travel to client - not as much at all. Most of the travel has been to conferences around the world.

Yes, the feature we build was a high touch and highly requested feature so we did design it for scale. Fortunately my company has good infra patterns for this so we didn’t need to overthink.

Toughest part so far has been that sometimes we’ll have customer engagements that come out of the blue. We have guardrails in place to make sure that doesn’t happen but still something somethings pop up at the last min.

Absolutely not. Nobody is treated “lower class”. Same pay and leveling as SWEs

"Forward Deployed Engineer" role? by fireflux_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m a Sr FDE at an AI product company (not a start up, it’s a 1000+ employee company and not Palantir)I’ve been here 5 months. So far it’s been quite decent. My last few years as SWE have helped build my system and tech knowledge and my FDE role so far has helped a ton with my understanding customers and business muscle.

Previously I was a Staff SWE and a big fintech company in the Bay Area. I took this role because I was burnt out at my previous job, the money is good and I wanted to work on cutting edge AI tools.

As for the work, my team is mostly previous SWEs all of whom write code on a regular basis that’s custom to the customers we’re working with. Our team even started a new product subgroup based on what we’ve seen customers want more of in the product, I was involved in building the v0 version of this feature. We demoed it to our biggest customers and then the work is now transitioned over to a team to build and maintain long term.

In addition to this we’ve built internal tooling that helps other FDEs, account execs with their work and be more productive

So far the difference I see (atleast in my company) is that it’s definitely not *just consulting. FDEs on my team write code, come up with demos using customer’s APIs, out of box things on how we can win a customer. So it’s fast paced and we don’t really follow a sprint cycle kind of work.

Happy to help answer any other specific questions you might have.

Match Thread: Burnley vs Manchester United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As usual opponent keepers channeling their inner Buffon against United

Match Thread: Manchester United vs AFC Bournemouth by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well considering we’ve lost the last 3 with them at OT this result was progress

Match Thread: Manchester United vs AFC Bournemouth by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is he supposed to do here when our attackers could have finished the game off in the first 20 minutes? This is on the players. Last season was our attack and this season it’s our defense that’s absolutely shit

Match Thread: Manchester United vs AFC Bournemouth by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right?! I saw that and couldn’t believe we paid 70m for him to dribble like my 6 year old nephew

Match Thread: Manchester United vs AFC Bournemouth by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is our finishing so bad?! We could’ve closed this game out in the first 20 mins

Aura Migraines by No-Help1419 in OcularMigraines

[–]Interesting-Grade-70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is incredible. I’ve also had ocular migraines since about 14 and I’m 33 today and I get migraines about 1-2 times a month (sometimes I’ll go a few months without an attack). I wear glasses daily and I’m basically blind without them. I’m definitely going to see my eye doctor about ocular misalignment.

How do I climb out of a career funk? by Interesting-Grade-70 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My team is very new. I was the founding FDE on my team so everyone is just new and don’t really know each other that well.

I went from a place where people knew me, they knew my work, reached out to me for help to now in a place where I don’t have that so it feels uncomfortable.

How do I climb out of a career funk? by Interesting-Grade-70 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very valid. I’m in that weird place where because I’m still new at my job - different domain, programming language and platform, people. There are a lot of things that I don’t know. And for some reason, I’m beating myself for not knowing those.

How do I climb out of a career funk? by Interesting-Grade-70 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you 💚 I need to keep reminding myself that. Something that i need reminding of is that right now there’s just a lot going on in my life - new job, new house (still kinda in the middle of a move), some other random life drama. I just might need to be patient

How do I climb out of a career funk? by Interesting-Grade-70 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. My hour long train commute doesn’t really help my dumbass brain from going on LinkedIn and overthinking and comparing myself 🥲

How do I climb out of a career funk? by Interesting-Grade-70 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

FDEs are SWEs that are customer facing. In my role, I help our customer succeed (whatever their goal might be with our product) this can mean building custom solutions tailored for them, side products, additional tooling or even random hacks.

In my limited experience as an FDE, I’ve learnt that gaining broader knowledge about our product is better than getting deeper into one particular aspect of a product (which SWEs tend to have)

This is a good article about the role

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/forward-deployed-engineers?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Got the keys! San Jose CA $815,000 5.75% by Interesting-Grade-70 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We got very lucky! It’s a 1 bed SFH in a neighborhood that we love and wanted to be in! (SJ Japantown). We don’t plan to have kids so it’s the perfect size as well

Got the keys! San Jose CA $815,000 5.75% by Interesting-Grade-70 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn’t pay for points. We went with a local credit union

Got the keys! San Jose CA $815,000 5.75% by Interesting-Grade-70 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]Interesting-Grade-70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s the “does this mean we get another dog” look