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I know a few people who've made good money immersing their hands in this pile of rich manure as consultants, so I guess it all comes down to what you individually are willing to do for some cash.

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I did it for a few years after I graduated. It paid about a 10% premium over what other dev jobs in the area paid, and you never had to do anything super technically challenging, but you were pretty much at the whims of the sales org without any kind of product management in place. Plus the owner of the stack you worked with was openly antagonistic to the fact that developers had to be involved at all, even though all of their "no-code" tools introduced complexity that required developers to be involved as soon as you did anything more interesting than whatever was in the demo.

So yeah I made some money but I'd die before I was a salesforce dev again.

> you were pretty much at the whims of the sales org without any kind of product management in place.

In my sample size of 2, this is always the case no matter where you work where the majority of revenue is derived by sales.

Makes me filthy rich doesn’t imply I like it.

Margin Call is a great movie.

I imagine and hope this is what a lot of people who work for our tech giants thinks, especially around the social medias....

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