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I’ve seen similar threads on other subreddits in response to articles about the tech layoffs and I was reading a lot of comments from people who seem to be in the same boat as I. I have 8-9 YoE, but haven’t gotten another SWE job yet. I did get one offer, but it was for a “Glassdoor red flags everywhere” company. I declined the offer. Otherwise it’s been mostly me applying for roles and not hearing back until the automated rejection email. From 2016-2021, this was not how it went for me. I’m used to hearing back for an initial interview for 6-7 out of 10 companies I apply to. I’m selective (even now) and run my resume against the job description using ATS to ensure a strong score prior to applying. My top “skills” are C#, Python, Linux, AWS and Azure (and of course HTML, CSS, JS w/React). Most of my experience is full stack, but the last 2-3 years has been “data engineering” with Python and microservices in AWS. I say this so you know I’m not in a niche stack or have a stale skill set.
Recruiters don’t reach out much these days, and when they do, they usually come back with “oh sorry, they’re looking for people with 10 YoE or more” or “oh sorry, they just extended an offer to a candidate…”
People are afraid to talk about being unemployed on LinkedIn, but I know I’m not alone. I wanted to make a thread asking the community about their experiences with the job market in the last year or so. Specifically, I’m curious about YoE, what base salary was in 2022, and what base salary is now (if you’re employed).
If anybody who weathered 2001 or 2009 is here, I’d love to hear about that experience and how quickly the SWE jobs came back.
One thing that concerns me with this particular “recession” is that nobody considers it a recession. The unemployment rate is low (though it’s a deceptive figure), and the stock market is at all-time highs…. Yet we see all this inflation driven by corporate greed, and companies laying off more SWEs than ever before. Sure, they “overhired” in 2021, but then why do so many of us seem to be struggling to find a job? It seems like companies are trying to squeeze blood from stone and reduce payroll expenses in order to keep reporting excellent quarters. The music will stop eventually, but then I fear people like me must wait a year or more on top of the year or so that has already elapsed. I have savings but I’m running out.
I'm a dev working at a small company with only one other dev who is the CTO, but he doesn't work on my tech stack so my product (a web app) that I've been developing for the company is all 100% me. This is my first job out of college, and frequently I find that I simply have no idea what to do, or am stuck on something, and after multiple days of searching, asking on forums, and so on, I still don't have a direction.
What do I do in these scenarios? For example, right now I'm trying to start writing tests for my API because my app breaks a lot for clients and it's usually because of API issues, but I haven't been able to make progress. I can't ask my boss because he doesn't know anything about node or web or JEST or whatever, and my multiple Stack Overflow posts have gone nowhere. In a big org, I'd get someone more knowledgeable to help me, but I don't have that.
Just feeling a bit discouraged and confused and trying to figure out what to do.
Im a HS senior right now. I always wanted to do something related to tech. I have coded in Python and JS and I liked it. But seeing how brutal is rn to get hired makes me reconsider what I want to do as a career. I will be probably graduating about that time so I'm curious to know what could change.
Hey guys. My girlfriend (US) and I (Netherlands) are looking to move in together in about a year or two, preferably in Seattle or Atlanta, as she has family there. I think that a work visa will not be required, as I believe it is possible to work while a spousal visa is being arranged.
Currently I work as a fullstack web developer in The Netherlands at 4 YoE after graduating secondary vocational school (MBO). As such I do not have the math & algorithmic knowledge that a US CS student has.
I have extensive experience in:
- PHP (Symfony)
- Javascript (Front- and back end)
- Java
- Rust (Still learning this, but wanted to add it to the list)
The past few years I have worked on multiple small startups, and I run my own small web development agency. I'm currently obtaining several certifications such as ISO 27001, an EU privacy certification, and a certificate for the role of Data Protection Officer. The trainings and examinations for these are provided by my company as I threatened to quit a while ago.
My current salary is just under 40k EUR, and I am incredibly attracted to the average salary a software developer in the US earns. I understand there is a higher cost of living, but at the end of the month there is much more money in your bank account in the US, than in my country, even with US health insurance.
What does it take for me to be accepted at a company like AWS or Microsoft? Keep in mind I am not local and would have to move across the globe. I'm fast at learning new stuff and I'm quite competitive. The overwork culture doesn't bother me, and even being on-call is fine, as long as it's not over 50 hours a week, every week.
Better yet, would it be possible for me to join one of these companies in my country, and get a transfer internally?
Role: Software Developer. So i guess my manager and the upper team had a meeting and my friend told me that apparently my Agile Champion does not like how i am not able to finish my work lately but i feel like its honestly not my fault bc there are so many grey areas in this User Story or project that im still figuring out plus the support team just takes insane amount of time since they work IST hours. I know im not the best at my job but im trying. I think i have a meeting with my manager soon what do i do, say? Im seriously scared need some uplifting guys help me
I'm at a loss here. How am I supposed to write test cases for this? I don't understand what this code is doing as is, but then there's a 750 line function. Even if I'm just trying to get full coverage of the function, which gives me a clearly defined task of "make a test case where X is true, now make a test case where X is false", how do I articulate what a given test case is doing from a high level view when there's so many different moving parts at play?
Is there a way to write good tests for this sort of code? Is my struggle here a failure on my part or is it a failure on the part of the primary author/designer of the code under test?
Basically, I’ve been laid off and looking for work for almost a year now. Interviews are few and far between and the ones I do get are super competitive. If I teach myself skills to get hired as a backend software engineer or something similar, do I have any chance of getting hired or even an interview if I have no formal experience other than QA and automation? Or do you think it’s better for me to just wait for the market for QA to improve?
I graduated from college back in 2022. A few months before graduation I applied for a cybersecurity job with a big 4 consultancy company. While I wasn't sure if cybersecurity was what I wanted to do, I was unable to get any other offers and the offer was really good so I went ahead with it. I had worked there for about a year and while my utilization was relatively low (I joined a bootcamp for about 3 months at my manager's recommendation that did not contribute to utilization and blocked my availability so I couldn't join client projects), my performance reviews from project managers was very high. I received a performance based raise after working there for a year and a month after that I was called in to discuss a promotion. My performance manager told me that I was on track for a promotion and that next week he will connect with me to discuss the specifics. 2 days later, I was invited to a zoom call with a HR rep and an executive that I didn't recognize and was told I was being let go. Everyone I had worked with, including my performance manager, had no idea. I had project managers that told me that I was one of the best people they worked with and one even said I was operating 2 levels higher job-code wise. I was given severance and some assistance and left amicably.
This was back in September. I had made a good number of connections at that job and was optimistic toward hitting the job market again. I have applied to well over 600 jobs, almost 50 of them with recommendations. I have only been able to get a single interview at a job I applied to on Indeed with no recommendation. The rest of my applications, including the ones I was recommended for, were either ghosted or given a generic decline email. I have reached out to recruiters regarding opportunities, I connected with recruiters and hiring managers I know to optimize my resume, I include a cover letter on almost every application, I have a good list of professional recommendations, I continue to pursue personal projects on github, and still am unable to even get an interview. I am currently, at a loss and just don't know what to do. I normally am a positive upbeat person but all the rejection with 0 indication of what I can be doing better has been wearing at me mentally and I've started to consider just giving up. I did my degree in 4 years, was involved in professional and recreational projects, I have amazing performance reviews and good recommendations, I have worked to enhance my resume, I worked for a big company fresh out of college and during college worked for Apple at the genius bar. I just don't understand and am at a total loss. Maybe this isn't the right thing or the right place but I am out of ideas and am feeling hopeless and alone.
I'm currently a junior in college looking to get a job in data science/machine-learning. Over the course of my freshman and sophomore summers as well as my first semester of my junior year, I interned as a data scientist for a small company. I really liked the job, it paid well, the small company culture was quite nice, and I don't really have any major complaints. I have been given a return offer to intern for a third semester there, but I can't help but feel hesitant to take it.
I feel like I don't have much more to learn from interning at the same company again, and it won't really change the experience on my resume at all. Furthermore, the type of work I tend to do for them is more on the analytical side and less on the machine-learning side, and I'd like to learn more and get better at ML. I also think that without dedicated time and practice, it might be hard for me to get a fulltime position at a much bigger company that would allow me more options later on down the line.
With that being said, I'm thinking of turning down the offer and instead grinding out some personal projects I've put on the backburner for quite a while now. That, and Leetcoding and taking online ML courses to strengthen my knowledge and perform better in interviews. I don't think turning down the offer would damage my reputation with the company in any way, and I'm very confident they would hire me out of college regardless based on how long I've been working for them and how eager they were to get me to stay. So, I figure this might be my only chance to really strive for a bigtime position at a really great company.
All that said, what do you all think? Does having another summer with the company on my resume give me more utility than properly grinding out personal projects, interview questions, and courses?
Hi, so i got a job (kind of) offer. They basically want to interview me, then if I succeed, then I get to be trained for 10 weeks, then after training, they pay me, but they get to take a percent of my salary for a year. Is that normal? I really need a job and I want to do it, but I want to make sure that this isn't some sort of scam or anything.
Looking for some friendly advice I’ve been working as a software engineer here in Canada for a 5 years now.
I’ve got a good grip on technologies like TypeScript, React, C# and Java Spring Boot at my past and current job, but I’m curious about what else I can do to make myself stand out in the industry. Are there any new trends or strategies I should be keeping an eye on? Certificates? AI?
Also, I’m considering exploring opportunities in the USA, but I’m not sure how to make myself more appealing to employers there.
Any tips or personal experiences you can share would be really appreciated!
Hi. I am a UX Researcher so my CS coursework is pretty rusty. However, I remember my Big Data class pretty well. I don't believe that all AI tools are necessarily "ALL BAD" but I think nuance is important. AI is a powerful tool that could be regulated -- kind of like supposedly weapons companies can't just go around making bombs but they can make hunting rifles and stuff.
But I think my boss just asked me to train a robot to do my job. My boss is naturally arguing with me because I'm a woman and he can tell me I'm being crazy and emotional if I say I think giving a robot access to my video camera, testing plan, and research scripts is not something I feel comfortable doing as a contractor. Women like me are usually called "unreasonable" for saying we actually don't feel comfortable saying "Wrike" because it sounds like "Reich" and my dad taught me that Nazis are bad.
Please help me decide what to do. My mom told me I'm being dumb. I don't want to do this because I think I'm being asked to automate away my friends' jobs. I hate tech and I'm trying to leave the industry anyway. What would you do?
**TL;DR**: Say the name "Wrike" out loud. It sounds like "Reich." "Third Reich." "Nazi." Hot take on Reddit but Nazis are bad. I'm not okay with uploading the training data set for an algorithm to do my job while on camera.
For context, a founding engineer is a title typically given to the first non-founder engineering hire at a tech startup.
So why is it so bad?
BTW, if you're offered to be a founding engineer at a tech startup that has no tech cofounder/CTO, either run or demand equal equity
I am in a consulting company that allocates us to different projects and the project I am in will end in around 1 month. However, no interesting options are appearing. The project I was in was in the Java/Spring ecosystem and my plan was to continue in that for around 2 years before even trying to change company, however with the abrupt end of the project it won't be possible. I was in QA before and was able to land this role, and have a little less than 1 year of experience in development.
I was presented with a project that uses some obscure niche technology that nobody knows off. The role would involve writing some groovy scripts, learning said tool and eventually some python scripting. The fact that it's data related and would involve learning python is ok (I would prefer to stay in the Java ecosystem but don't oppose to learning other languages). However, I am not very fond of starting to use a niche proprietary technology so early on my career after I tried so hard to go from QA to development. I feel like it would be going back to uninteresting projects where I don't learn any transferable knowledge. Even if I had to learn a proprietary technology I think something well known like Salesforce or SAP would be a better option than something nobody ever heard off, at least there's a lot of companies using that.
On the other hand, staying on bench with no project is not a better alternative. The company would not fire me straight away but obviously eventually after a couple of months, I'd have to be allocated to some project, they can't be paying me to do nothing forever. I was not planning to change company since my current company offers good work-life-balance and pays above average. I am a career changer and enrolled in a bachelor in computer science when I started on this field and the company also allows me to take the exams without raising any problems and that's something I don't want to lose because I am very close to the end of the degree and don't want to give up now. Given the state of the job market I am not sure if just 1 yr of experience I'd find a decent role paying the same (I am not US based and most companies pay shit here). I also definitely do not want to go back to QA where I have more experience.
I already expressed to my manager that I feel this is uninteresting and it would be going back in my career and he understands but can't create opportunities and currently that's what there is. He says I can stay in the project and in parallel learn some other things since the company allows us to do some personal development, but obviously doing some Udemy course is not the same as actually having work experience in a project.
What would you do in my situation, take this project in an uninteresting technology or just pass it and wait for something better to show up with the risk that it may take a while and it can be harmful to be doing nothing for so long and also the risk of being fired or ending up having to take a different crappy potentially worst project anyway?
Right now the market is skewed towards a LOT of entry level engineers vying for very few jobs.
I wonder if this means for all time, once the current generation starts applying for mid-level engineer, staff engineer, and senior engineering jobs that there will be many more engineers than job opportunities at every step of the road for them since they're all gaining experience on similar timelines.
Or do you think that there are enough specializations at the upper levels that will help spread the field and lessen the job pain?
Hello everyone,
I am a CS student graduating with honors in a month, who is very interested in the math/analytical side of this field. I have done two ML/data and statistical analysis internships at two universities, one very prestigious, and a software engineering internship at another university. I have a decently large portfolio of ML/data analysis/quantitative models from these internships and side projects. Additionally, I did a lot of extra coursework in ML/AI/Math because it genuinely interests and excites me. In fact, I am one year of work away from having a bachelor's in math in addition to my bachelor's in CS if I wanted to dual major. In short, I feel like I am decently set up to get a job in ML/some other very analysis heavy field, which is what I want to do.
Last fall, I was approached by a recruiter and subsequently hired on as a software engineer at a smallish company that contracts to the government. Of course I was excited, because it was the opportunity to get some real-world experience while in college, especially because all my past internships have been at universities. Well, my excitement quickly died down when I realized they didn't want a software engineer, they wanted a systems/network engineer and someone very savvy in IT, which is exactly the work I have been doing since I started. (Teaching myself networking engineering on the fly with strict deadlines/little mentorship has been...an experience I never want to repeat.) Additionally, because it's military related, the software/products I am working with are extremely niche. I am getting a little experience in AWS and Docker/Kubernetes, but that's about 20% of my day-to-day. I've written about 10 lines of code since I started. In short, everything I am doing is taking me away from my original career plan.
Lately, with graduating looming, I have been heavily toying with the idea of quitting this job and spending the summer really tightening down on the things that would help me get a good ML/analysis job (think some relevant certifications, deploying active models in the cloud to mimic production, working on open-source projects, etc.). And of course, applying like crazy to the jobs I want, which is time consuming if you're tailoring applications. I am also open to grad school if it increases my marketability, although from what I've heard it's only worth it if you go to a prestigious one. But that would mean more time needed to take the GRE, fill out applications, etc., time I doubt I'll have if I remain at my current job. This job is very demanding - I am expected to be available at all hours, travel often, and they plan to bump me from 20 - 30 hours a week to 40 - 50 when I graduate. Realistically, I doubt I will have the time or mental capacity to do extra projects/get certifications in preparation for a different field of CS or grad school if I stay.
Quitting this job is also feasible from a financial perspective, since I am an experienced bartender who can make 35 - 50 hourly and have several places I used to work at practically begging me to come back. I could work part-time as a bartender and easily support myself with my current bills/area I live in. I don't know if it's just frustration with my current job speaking, but would it be a terrible career move to quit this job and focus on brushing up for the jobs I really want? Do you think a company would rather see a year of experience as a niche systems engineer for the military, or a year's worth of relevant certifications/projects? Is the systems/network engineering experience going to actively reduce my desirability as a ML engineer, for example, or help it?
Thoughts/advice are appreciated.
I work remotely as a software engineer. I was just terminated with 30 days left in my 90-day Performance Improvement Plan (PiP) without even having the chance to hit all of the goals in it (one was coming up in four days, consisting of "fix 31 breaking unit tests," and I believe it was possible). (The reason for the PiP was primarily a concern with my level of work output, even though often the delays were exacerbated by configuration problems on my company-issued laptop and delays in colleagues' responding to code review requests.)
My manager, who as recently as our last conversation encouraged me to set up recurring feedback/coaching sessions with a couple of senior peers (giving me no reason to suspect an imminent termination), "doesn't see" me hitting my 4-days-out goal (shouldn't we see if I hit it?) and doesn't see enough improvement on the PiP (although there has certainly been improvement shown).
I was paid through tomorrow and that's it.
Doesn't a 90-day PiP carry the implication that if both parties are working in good faith on improvement, the "go/no-go" decision comes at the end of the PiP? I am still reeling in shock. Any insight would be really appreciated. Thank you.
I'm working in a big company as a software engineer. I entered this company about 8 monthes ago(I have 6 years of experience). The whole code base(it's so huge) is written in php and it's a legecay code base with almost no documentation, and the architucture of the project is so terible.
Tge problem here is my teammates and team lead are toxic and unfriendly to me. They rarely talk to me. And no one even on-boarded me and when I ask them how the code works they just say read the codes!!! and also the team lead just tells me stuff like do your tasks faster and don't ask questions.
Working in this company has ruined my mental health and I want to leave but I have a problem, I want to immigrate to another country ASAP(EU countries) because pensions in my country are terrible and I don't know how long does it take to find a job in another country. it maybe take 6 monthes or may take more than 1 year.
So if I change my company right now before I immigrate, I can't stay long at my next company because I need to change it to immigrate to another country. I'm worried that changing my company makes the recruiter I'm a job hopper. Would it be bad for me or a red flag if I change 3 jobs in only 2 years?
what would you do if you were in my situation?
ps: can anyone please explain why is this post getting downvoted?
I'm pursuing an arts degree, but I also have been working on CS fundamentals/ projects. Is this enough for my resume to not be thrown into the trash? Would a cs minor suffice?
edit: Bootcamp instead of a minor, is that viable?
Basically graduated in spring 2022 from a T10 university (not trying to brag but wondering if that helps) and didn't think I wanted to do programming work. Had an internship at a startup and another one doing some basic AI at a university. Did a few projects in 2022/early 2023 but kinda stopped and nothing substantial. In the meantime, explored other careers like intro medical stuff (CNA), took some non-CS courses as a community college, volunteering, and other unrelated work.
Is it still possible to return to programming? Should I try networking again?
Any suggestions on resume/showing worth? Started doing some low level projects for personal needs (extremely low level like workout planner).
I applied for an internship at a FAANG company in January of this year, got a response and and invitation to complete an OA back in late February.
The website says "still under consideration".
It's been a month + by now, and I don't want to be pushy or have them "remember" to tell me I've failed, if that makes sense (ik it doesn't) , should I contact the recruiting team?
Let me preface that I know a CS degree is the best general thing I can do, but simply not available due to some FAFSA loan bureaucracy and economic means. I do not currently have a degree or IT certs.
I've worked in a variety of desktop roles and titles (Network tech, SysEng, EUCA...) since 2018 in a fairly broad range, supporting all infrastructure levels for lawyers, small companies, hospitals, etc. Been working at a healthcare org for the last 2 years doing a mix of PM and technical work, mainly org expansion, desktop support, training, and 3d biomedical printing/design.
I got into IT because I enjoy working with people and solving real problems, but I feel like I'm hitting a wall in how 'broad' I can make an impact and my ability to grow is constrained by my role. I've been studying MERN stack and exploring .net and SNOW as options to specialize in, but with my current employment I won't have the opportunity to utilize these skills professionally much.
I guess my ask - if you were interviewing a self-taught dev who came from a different IT field - is what skills would you focus on? What do I need to button down on to be a competent, viable candidate? How much of my current experience would be considered when transferring over? Is IT and SWE experience more 'apples vs oranges' or related?
I'm open to options that aren't titled as SWE either - if you know a good stepping stone or alternative field, please let me know - I just like making stuff that helps people and coding is fun.
Thanks y'all! :)
Hello. Im currently a 4th year undergraduate in a software engineering degree. In our university, we have a different specialization called Data Science but I was not good with mathematics back then since I did not grasp the basics of maths when I was young. Now, I've learned some of the basics of math and I'm getting the hang of maths and want to divert into machine learning.
I'm currently doing a machine learning related project with lots of personal researching for the final year research and it's not necessarily a software engineering related research. I'm getting more curious about the field but I'm having a couple of doubts that I need to get clarified as they are,
Data Science students learn more about Statistics and mathematics than Software Engineering students and they already have the domain expertise in some regard than
Unsure of the content I should thoroughly go through. In both mathematical aspect and practical aspect hence the disadvantage I hold in comparison to Data Science Undergraduates.
I have not learned anything statistical in our modules and wondering if I have the capability to push it further.
If I am to push towards machine learning, are everything a start over, or will some of my knowledge be carried forward that will be of value.
I am not necessarily bad with data structures, but our software engineering modules are mostly focused on practical solutions than creating the best algorithms hence we barely learned much about data structures and algorithms. (It is not something I'm intimidated of learning. Just bringing the advantage Data Science Students have in comparison to the students in my university).
The University I go to is a prominent university in my country and therefore the output of Data Science students can most probably take up the few opportunities that have been offered by the industry. (I wish anyone would beg to differ and this is a total assumption that I'm thinking. Apart from the prominence this university holds) and as an overall, most of the software engineering degrees in my country focus less on data structures and algorithms in comparison to international degrees' modules I've seen.
I already have learned some of the introductory concepts regarding optimization, linear regression both univariate and multivariate and respective cost functions, logistic regression, support vector machines and some pre processing methods and some Neural Network architectures and behaviors etc.
Any Industry entree or an expert. Can you give me your opinion and elaborate your thought process and maybe give me an insight on things I should check on. All these things above are not necessarily problems to me for I am willing to put in a reasonable amount of time for everything to work out (as much as time I have).
UPDATE: Based on someone else having a similar experience and suspicion, I've decided it probably is a scam.
Title. I got contacted by a recruiter from there and the idea is that you pay $9.99/week until they get you hired. I'm willing to pay that if it's not going to take a long time, but not if they aren't legitimate. Anyone used them?
I work fully in office. I don't mind it except for the fact that they give no flexibility for working from home unless the weather is really really bad and we also can't abuse that because if we do we can get in trouble, they're also pretty strict about what constitutes as bad weather.
I also find it odd that even though they're always promoting being fully in the office they do nothing that'd benefit the workers for being in office other then an occasional pizza party, which they actually do pretty well on gettimg enough for everyone to even have thirds. There's no collaboration areas, there are conference rooms that you must reserve first but if a more important meeting needs to happen in that room at that time they'll just cancel the meeting you set up with no warning apparently. We also sit in single occupant cubicles and most of my team just collaborates through teams instant messaging anyways.
I like being in office because I am new, I am few months away from having a full year of experience. It's easier to get help on somethings, and I do like the socialization and occasional conversations my co workers and I have but for the most part we still mostly just collaborate through teams IM.
Meetings are also all virtual except for one that we occasionally have virtually anyways.
So why be so adamant about being in the office full time if you're not going to do anything to really benefit your employees for it? One of my co workers even said that if he had the choice to WFH he'd never ever come back into the office unless absolutely necessary.
My manager has said if it were up to him he'd be ok with a more hybrid type work style for his team but he has absolutely no say. I'd love to be hybrid if I were I'd probably like my job a lot more to be honest since I have a 40 minute commute...
ï've been applying for jobs for the past 6 months everyday. I've had no success getting a interview at all. I don't have a good gpa to show off but I do have internship, job, leadership, and project experience. I've been told by Many people in the field and hiring managers I have a really good resume. 'm not sure what to do at this point. I've started looking at coding bootcamps as an option and would like advice from both people in the industry and people who have completed them.
This may be characteristics, skills, attitudes, aspects of the personality of the person.
Or maybe it's more related to characteristics of the companies/positions and job opportunities available.
I've been providing IT support for a handful of different food processing plants for the last few years. Primarily cattle slaughterhouse/beef packaging environments.
I was just wondering, what would this field even be called? Googling "Industrial IT Support" yields few results, really. There isn't a lot of discussion on the industrial/manufacturing side of IT support. But, when you think about it, every major factory in the world must have an IT department right? There are so many computers involved, after all.
I'd say the only real differences with this type of IT work are that we have to be quite physically active at times, IT issues sometimes halt a whole production line leading to money lost every second so the pressure can be immense, and we tinker with industrial computers like PLCs.
Anyone have similar experience? Is this a field I should stay in or should I get away from manufacturing environments? Is there money to be made? Is there an actual pathway in this field? I've thought about learning more about PLCs because I hear that can be a lucrative field.
I currently make ~$65k/yr. The pay is a little higher than most help desk jobs in my area, I guess because of the stressful and dangerous environment. I was doing level 2 call center IT support before this.
So I got my first IT job in a data field fresh out of college 5 years ago. I'm somewhere between the mid and senior roles now, and don't like the field that much anymore. It mostly gravitates towards Oracle technologies, working with data warehouses through ODI and writing PL/SQL code. I haven't learned anything new in years, so I'm basically collecting a paycheck for doing minimal work. It's not just me, it's an entire 100+ people department managing legacy code that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
I understand it sounds like a dream scenario, but it isn't. It can't last forever. I'll be outdated in a couple of years time, and even if that's not the case - I don't like the job. Not in this company or in any that has a similar job description.
I've been learning Go (Golang) for the past couple of months and have considered making a career switch. The problem is that there are zero job openings for Go developers where I live. Go is interesting to me and I could maybe work for an international company (tough as a junior), but it seems like far-fetched. On the contrary, there are dozens/hundreds of job openings for Oracle-based data professionals, but I hate the stack.
Were some of you ever in a similar situation? What did you do?
Hello, I just graduated in Computer Science and I'm on the job hunt! I'm still a rookie so I don't know much but I saw Microsoft offers a lot of certifications (mostly for their azure product). Is trying to attain a certification worth the time and help employment prospects? Or is it just a waste of time? Thank you for your possible answers!