Transition from support engineer to SDE
My job title is “software engineer”, but role is supporting/enabling tier-1 customers at Intel platform. Zero coding done in last 2 years (except few small automation projects in bash. ) Now I am thinking to start interviewing for sde role due to better sde job opportunities and good salary. Though I learned a lot in past two years by working closely with customers and collaborating cross-division, but I am not sure whether my this experience will be counted while interviewing for sde role. So my questions are: 1. If I perform good in my coding interview, will hiring manager still hesitate to pick me? 2. My current role helped me see bigger picture and made me better engineer. But since I was not coding, should I apply for junior role? More Background info: I have CS degree and worked for about 2.5 years as a sde. Then 2 years in my current role. So I have total 4.5 yoe.
It's very difficult. I am in similar position . Development managers don't value this job. I am in similar position for two years and I am finding it very hard to sell this job.
Find a dev role at intel internally, then after a year or so, jump ship. This worked for me. I was in support role at intel due to family reasons.
Yeah why did you ever take that support role?? You will have to spin those two years hard in any interview ...
Due to family and geo preference reason.