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Is it the same at other places?
Right now, I don’t believe what would make me happy is to be a principal/staff engineer somewhere necessarily.
Don’t get me wrong, I love programming, but I see it as me getting paid to solve problems, and not getting paid to write good code, and I think there are other ways to solve those problems. For example, I think the biggest problems in my organization are managerial and organizational rather than technical, and I feel like the type of training that would come with an MBA can help one solve those issues, including communication, planning, product validation, people management, etc.
That said, my entire reporting chain up to and including the CEO doesn’t have an MBA, so it’s not like it’s a prerequisite.
The other path I’m considering is an MS in CS/SE because while I’ve been an engineer for a few years, my undergrad is in Mathematics, and I’m worried it’ll be a limiter later on to not have a CS degree, but also only a BS.
One of my concerns is whether or not i’d be able to come back as an engineer as a fallback.
I'm an engineer looking at MBAs right now too, but it seems like a huge investment.
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There are definitely members looking on how it would to start a company based on solving cities' problems.
I did not have multiple H1-B applications, I was educated in the US, and I got very very lucky in getting the lottery. I'm paid the same as my coworkers on my team, I do not have to work longer hours than them, and for all intents and purposes I am treated equally by my peers or management (not skipped on promotions, raises etc).
So to speak, I work in the category of companies that do not abuse the H1-B system, and uses it to find the right candidates (We've been looking for someone to add to our team for 1 year at this point, and we can't find anyone, american or not).
That said, even though I might benefit from this, I am still worried personally as the devil will be in the details, and these things have a tendency to have unintended consequences. Furthermore, I'm in the very early stages of postulating for a green card, and what the future of that process may entail also keeps me up at night. I really hope I will not have to pack up my things and be forced to leave at any moment.