What’s a good entry lvl job?
Instead of being stuck at Google as a contractor making chump change not growing career wise, I wanna start looking for FTE role. However, my bs is physics and I can’t code. Been doing this software QA for about 4 months so that hardly counts. Should I just start as SDR or Customer service FTE at a company to get my foot in the door? *just started learning python
Learn to code. Python is as good as anything. Get into QA automation/test frameworks. Learn algorithms + data structures and do leetcode problems. With a couple YOE your degree matters little.
When you say get into test/QA, do you mean start practicing problems about those?
There aren’t any LC problems around tests. I mean find (or create) test automation work at your current place to get experience writing code. Test frameworks and automation can be a career path by itself, but you can also use it to switch to development (or devops/SRE).
Assuming the physics stuck go back for a PHD, L2code, matlab and Python then label yourself a data scientist. Or something.
Not going back to school... i hated every part of it. Didn’t like my major but did not wanna stay in school longer so I just pushed thru
Take a boot camp or some free online classes to learn to code. It’s not impossible to grow a career without technical/programming skills but it will help a lot. Talk and network. Be diligent and work hard so you can ask the managers you respect, “how can I be converted to FTE without a degree?”
It’s going to be an uphill battle. You’ll need to compete with 10 thousands fresh grads from school who had 4 years of CS education every year.
Don’t listen to these comments. Yes you could learn to code with enough time but if you’re looking to make a move quickly look into ops roles
FTE doesn't necessarily mean more pay, but there's plenty out there if you just want into a big company. What you listed are fine, sales jobs are also usually easy to get into. Then keep learning python, do CS from 101 to algorithms online. Finally start LC. Should be able to get in as SDE somewhere in about a year (given that you'll be studying only in the evenings)
Trust me, it would be near impossible to get less than what I make right now... when people say LC, are they referring to hard problems on LC?
Try me. TC?