Chapter 65. Enterprise Software Job Strategy and Guide

If you're a developer and have worked with startups or freelance clients, you'll find that the world of enterprise software jobs is quite different, in both good and challenging ways.

Some of the pros to working in the enterprise software industry is that large organizations typically are stable, have systems in place for development, and allow you to specialize on a specific piece of functionality instead of having to cover the full range of software features.

Some of the challenges that are unique to enterprise development are that there is typically quite a bit of red tape for developers. If you're used to being able to grab any code library and stick it in your application you'll find that enterprises are pretty picky about what outside libraries you bring in. For example, I was just talking with a enterprise software developer a few days ago who expressed how frustrating it was that it took two months...