I’m a new grad SWE deciding between two offers and wanted to get some outside opinions.

One is at a big finance/brokerage type company, pretty normal enterprise SWE work: Java/Spring, .NET, APIs, databases, etc.

The other is at a big telecom/networking company. The work is 5G networking stuff, with C++/python and some more proprietary/internal systems.

TC is comparable but the telecom offer is a little higher. From what I’ve found online, telecom might have slightly better WLB too. I think both have slow salary growth but the telecom one is a bit worse.

My main worry is future career growth. Would going into telecom/networking make me too specialized or stuck in a niche?…