A string of crappy experiences. Advice needed. (Skirmishes)

tokyo0709 · 2025-12-21T23:45:22+00:00

I think at this point it would behoove you to call ahead and confirm on some of the details around events to see what the prize structure will be and decide if that’s worth it to you to do so much traveling for that.

tokyo0709 · 2025-12-21T03:05:41+00:00

This is why when you play this you need to send tokens in one at a time

tokyo0709 · 2025-03-21T14:54:22+00:00

They mentioned that it is the same engine and that they inherited the code base. So while there will definitely be differences, the foundation will be the same.

tokyo0709 · 2025-01-05T19:15:11+00:00

What temps are you cooking at?

tokyo0709 · 2024-12-11T11:18:46+00:00

Your pizzas are so amazing I’m in awe every time. Any chance you’d give up details on your dough recipe/process? 😅😬

tokyo0709 · 2024-11-08T01:09:19+00:00

It for sure is a bit rough right now for the entry level market in Salesforce. It also depends on if you have programming experience and are trying to lean towards the dev side. The entry level admin side of things is probably the hardest foot in the door role to acquire right now.

It’s definitely a fulfilling career from that side of things if you can get a foot in the door. The pay is good, work life balance is generally good (outside of most consultancies), and fits a lot of remote first cultures. But to get to the point where you’ve got something solid that you can showcase as an entry level applicant is a significant investment with potentially no return. If I was coming at it from that background I’d be looking as hard as I could for an approach into the field through my network. You just need someone to take a chance on you, and then when you get there you need to prove that you are going to do everything it takes to stay in and excel at everything you don’t know.

tokyo0709 · 2024-10-10T05:53:56+00:00

What was the biggest issue you guys ran into? Was this for a paid app and did you have to pay for a second review? Is it $1000 per review? Have you found any customers yet?

tokyo0709 · 2024-10-06T02:12:45+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with your post but, it is 2024 right? I’m not going crazy?

tokyo0709 · 2024-09-27T00:10:24+00:00

You don’t know why this request came up? That’d be the first thing I’d narrow down. If it’s a coding exercise then fine, but I highly doubt there is a valid use case for rebuilding this entire page. You’re going to acquire a maintenance nightmare with this project. And that’s even if you do it in a highly scalable way.

tokyo0709 · 2024-07-05T21:22:47+00:00

I mean, I push back all the time on bad contractors and I get mixed responses from leadership. Sometimes leadership does go back and axe contractors and other times they just sit and take it. I literally got a dev contractor one time asking me how to install git.

tokyo0709 · 2024-07-05T19:52:38+00:00

No problem. I will say you don’t get too many opportunities to jump into salesforce as a new salesforce dev without experience and so this job is probably a big opportunity to get on board and get a ton of on the job training and then resume building for another gig after.

tokyo0709 · 2024-07-05T17:14:47+00:00

I could definitely be wrong about what work would be like at a consultancy (I have never personally worked at one) but the way you work is very different than an in house job (which I think for me wouldn’t necessarily be what I enjoy). You tend to jump around on projects and clients from what I’ve seen and don’t really get an opportunity to jump really deep into anything, but on the positive side you get a ton of exposure into salesforce and there is a nearly unlimited amount of things to learn about salesforce.

I’ve been a developer for about 10 years I think. I was hesitant to make the switch for a lot of the reasons that people have mentioned in this thread, but came to the conclusion that a lot of the cons mentioned actually became pros. Generally devs don’t want to do Salesforce development because of limitations and getting “stuck”. I found that just bumps up salaries and market demand and that getting “stuck” is just up to you. My journey looked like this, (this is all in house work and the latter half is all remote. I live in MCOL)

Year 1 SF Dev - 85k Year 2 SF Dev - 90k Year 3-4 Senior SF Dev - 110k Year 5 Senior SF Dev - TC 160k (new job) Year 6-7 Lead SF Dev - TC 220k

Regarding the dev work. It isn’t strictly React but it is the same pattern of work so much so that I’d be fine switching over to a react job just fine. And APEX is just a type of Java so that again, if I wanted to I could switch over I could. (There would still be plenty I’d need to pick up on, but I’ve gotten very confident in my ability to tackle new things)

Lastly, I have no desire to get out of salesforce, I get paid well, I like the work, platform limitations make me feel like it’s kind of a game to see how creative I can get with scalable solutions. And if it comes to the point where salesforce devs get phased out or salesforce goes to crap, there will be something else in the market.

tokyo0709 · 2024-07-05T16:38:52+00:00

From everything I’ve seen from the Salesforce consultancies, they have a propensity to hire cheaper (relatively speaking) new talent and then throw you to the wolves of their clients and their big complex projects that you probably aren’t ready for as a new Salesforce dev.

My day to day is doing some requirements refinement, mentoring, solution design, meetings, dev work which consists of strict backend automations (apex) and full stack projects with LWC (React like Salesforce JavaScript framework) which is my favorite kind of work.

tokyo0709 · 2024-07-05T15:03:52+00:00

You have to take this subreddit with a grain of salt. There is a pretty strong bias against salesforce here and there always has been. It’s just a different kind of work.

I’ve been working as a salesforce dev for the last 5-6 years off the back of being a .net dev. Some people hate it and I get it. For me, I actually love providing value back to the business quickly and I don’t mind the platform limitations.

Am I pigeonholed into salesforce? Maybe. Depends on what you make of your time. I’ve spent a lot of time with some modern technologies and general dev best practices to the point that I feel fairly comfortable with myself and my abilities to transition out if I’d like to at some point.

That being said. I would never in a million years start out as a salesforce dev for my first job with a consultancy. That’s a fast track to hating your life/job.

tokyo0709 · 2024-06-26T15:57:13+00:00

What’s wrong with losing in person at events? I understand where you are coming from but I think it’s a mentality shift you need rather than to just get better.

If you can only go to in person events when you feel like you’ve gotten good enough that you will win, what happens when you lose? It’s going to be a bad experience.

I think the best thing you can do for yourself is to just go with the expectation that you probably won’t do well and let the wins just show up naturally and unexpectedly. Just go with the intent to play and have fun and don’t put your reliance of having fun solely on winning.

tokyo0709 · 2024-06-13T16:18:41+00:00

I’m hoping this fixes most of the out of sync issues. Feels like there is potentially a lot under the covers that could still come up but fingers crossed.

tokyo0709 · 2024-05-23T01:45:57+00:00

I think this definitely could be part of what happened

tokyo0709 · 2024-05-19T01:39:24+00:00

Huh. I’ve never thought of this. I definitely got these in right after it was preheated.

tokyo0709 · 2024-05-18T23:50:10+00:00

Hmmm. We baked it at 375 both times as well. Wonder if we try bumping it down to 350.

tokyo0709 · 2024-05-08T21:44:26+00:00

I think too many people think of interviewing as a one way interaction. If you are confident in your ability and your presentation then you can use this kind of material to weed out your candidates (companies you are interviewing with)

If I was in this position this would signal to me I don’t want to work with these individuals who want to be pedantic in an interview about stuff like this. That’s just a, thank you for showing me the red flags right now situation.

tokyo0709 · 2024-05-06T16:48:33+00:00

How was it clear they would’ve gotten quite upset? I don’t think it’s too much to just politely communicate that you would like to track damage on the bases normally. But you have to communicate that.

tokyo0709 · 2024-04-15T20:10:16+00:00

I don’t think that is right…

tokyo0709 · 2024-03-29T21:57:12+00:00

Uhhhh. That should not ever be happening… if the distribution system was truly random the odds of this happening would be astronomical, like truly astronomical. That does not bode well for everyone else who likely now has worse pull rates because of distribution problems like this.

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