Tech interviewers have a bias towards aerospace SWEs.
After doing a dozen of these interviews at these tech companies. I smell a bias at the startups, both ones that are pre-IPO and IPOed. They tend to ask questions that are to check if my software practices are at their level. Basic shit like Dev/Feature/Master/Release branch, whether I had a mentor, etc... When they ask me to tell them a project I worked on, its completely out of their norm because its closer to hardware. So practically things like using the cloud are not part of the ecosystem/infrastructure. So when I begin to talk about this, I have to fill in these gaps for them when you have to create software for hardware and not just an API over the internet. These create "bias" that I'm not good enough for them when I see their faces and the types of questions they ask me. Its just frustrating when attempting to switch into tech with my background. All on-sites with these startups have led to no offers but big tech companies are more forgiving. Any aerospace buddies experienced the same thing? Best offer so far 190K TC, 4 YOE
Honestly, this is a typical changing field challenge that I had experienced. But fortunately, once you make the switch, most people will consider you are ‘in the circle’.
Rather a stupid mindset.
We are hiring. Are you interested? (I am not with TS anymore)
It sounds to me that you’ll have better luck interviewing for an embedded software/firmware role.
Not interested
Ok but that’s your strength right? If you’re trying to move into the cloud you will probably need to join a startup to get some experience. I don’t see the big guys hiring you unless the role is on the junior side.
I switched from mechanical with no compsci classes or formal work experience. Just build at least one interesting, nontrivial, good system relevant to what you want to work on and open source it. Then probably skew towards working at a startup first. That's what I did.
How about AV roles? Plenty of fun hardware and math.
Its because the companies you talk to are not great enough, maybe.
If I were to name a few, you would know them.
Yeah. I believe so. Some people just do one thing for a long time and so lucky that thing didn’t lose its fame. Those companies may be successful but greatness is kind of subjective.