Female with 5+ years marketing/support experience and not interested in following current career path. Taken a few online courses (JavaScript, SQL, etc) and excited to learning more, but want to know how feasible it is to make a switch. The tech field seems to be pretty saturated (from my perspective) and every time I've looked, seems to be geared toward top tier college grads, 5+ years of experience, or free internships - I'm looking to still be able to survive in the Bay while switching careers. And also seeing an increase of bootcamps popping up with what seems like too-good-to-be-true results.
I used to doubt them until my friend emptied her savings to attend one and subsequently landed her job with the knowledge.
What type of boot camp? Front end?
Machine learning in Python actually
*outcomes not typical
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Are you willing to do internship? Tech internships are very well paid so try to learn more, maybe do a project, and start applying. Many companies, including Proofpoint, convert interns to full time if the person is immediately available.
Definitely something I'd considering if living wages are paid during internship.
Interns in bay area companies are paid very well. Some get between 40 to $45 an hour.
Won’t be good enough for FAANG style big employers. But you can get into a startup and tier 2/3 companies. Everyone seems to be getting a CS degree now. It is feeling very much saturated already, so the mileage of a boot camp prep will be limited.
They can work they’re way up after
True. It’s all about getting your foot in the door. The point is to not upsell the boot camp path too much. It’s a path but the field is getting crowded.
https://www.joinhorizons.com/immersive People from here go to Facebook and LinkedIn hires from there as well. Look at their alumni and I think this could be the right program for you.
Kind of embarrassed to ask because I don't know much about this, but what do you mean by "build some cool stuff on your own". Like apps, or what?
Yeah, mobile apps, websites.
If you're decent at math, the data science ones are very good and it's a job in high demand with less competition. Your marketing background might even help.
It's also the most challenging
Do a Masters in CS part time, while keeping your day job. It will take couple of years, and lots of work, but you'd be much better in the long run.
Good advice but my understanding is that masters is a lot more $$$ assuming your company wouldn't cover it? Not disagreeing but another thing to evaluate.
Paid $22k for mine, and got $30k raise immediately. So it paid off. That was 10 years ago though.
Maybe this is just my opinion but I think bootcamps send kind of a negative message - "hey this guy can't learn on his own". There's so many great and free (or cheap) online learning resources these days unlike what we had just a decade ago, you need just time and motivation to do them. FANGs value ability to learn more than your knowledge of a particular tech stack of the year, they usually have extensive proprietary stacks and will need to bring you up to speed with them in any case; a small company likely will have exact opposite values, up to you where you want to end up
OP is a turn around story. She is going against odds and her resume will show that, as long as its done properly. This shows that she can learn and going through the bootcamp will lead to better opportunity depending on how well she does in it. OP, presumably, doesn't have any tech connections and bootcamps can help with it.
Universities send the same message. How dare you learn something from a formal process. Everyone should just learn everything in a vacuum.
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