Somehow I saw an ad for Blind somewhere on social media. I'm actually just a help desk team lead (not manager which sometimes are one on the same). Seems this is more catered toward development, which has also intrigued me. I was going to pursue maybe network administration then network engineering or security depending on which I liked more after some studying of the certifications of both paths. I like Infrastructure but I don't love it enough to avoid switching. DevOps seems like a good route considering my Infra experience, but SWEs seem to make a lot. Would I need a degree for that? Certs and experience can get you pretty far in Infra. I am open to other suggestions as well. I would say my strengths are persistence, high cognitive function, good memory, and accountability. I live in south Florida so I'm not sure how TC scales around here compared to what seems like predominantly pacific posters. TC: 66k all salary #tech
forget about studies and cert. Just get xp with whatever job you find and triple your TC in 6 months to 1 year
Ok I guess I will look around. My job gives me a CBT nuggets membership so I can probably get some basics from that. I don't know much anything about the dev side of IT so I certainly can't land a job with nothing to show I can do the job. If you have suggestions on where to start, I am happy to hear.
Starting is the most difficult. I started with some freelancing. It was the bad clients ofc, it was low salary and difficult clients. Products were going nowhere and it was obvious, but after 6 months I could easily find jobs and worked for a startup for almost 2 years. With a few years of xp on my linkedin I had plenty of opportunities and made it to a big tech. Few years later to fb. You could build a portfolio on github with a few small projects you built on your own. Or look for freelance jobs on freelancer.com 3 to 6 months formation starting from 0 should be enough. 20% theory/reading and 80% projects/doing. Focus on trendy tech, react, javascript, nodejs. If I was starting I would do codacademy. freecodecamp seems nice but way too long if you do everything
Degree would be good. That would get you past the HR filter. However, not a must to get a SWE job. Start contributing to some open source project so you have something to show publicly. Start practicing on LC . Switch to a low profile company first(easier) and then climb the ladder to FANG.
you don’t “need” a degree for SWE but degree makes it easier to get an interview. pay is high and at the same time competition is fierce. also career path matters. experience in one field don’t translate to another so better to find one you like and try to become senior level.
Fields as in Infra vs SWE or within SWE itself? Would the latter refer to Full Stack vs MLE vs API etc? Sorry if these seem like dumb questions. This app opened a new world for me.
yea like front end, backend, SRE, devops etc
And your ability to solve LC problems.
No offense but in this industry certs will get you no where. It’s all about experience and the background you came from.
Cool thanks. Background as in what I do now?
To be blunt, no one cares you worked in Customer Service. That will get you no where if you want to be a SWE or DevOps. Get experience in what you want to do by contributing to projects or get a degree.