I recently completed leetcode 150. Have a PhD in Bioengineering. How can I transition to a career in software from biotech? Willing to put in rigorous year of self study or boot camp. I don’t care what I am doing. Which branch of software engineering makes the most money? TC: 150k, YOE:4 EDIT: I am planning to transition one year from now. I know situation in tech companies is pretty bad right now. #tech #apple #meta #amazon #netflix #goof le
Having hands on coding experience with actual projects is the best way to elevate skill set as a coder. Education/Studying/Bootcamps will only get you so far. If you don’t have a work project to do this with then create a personal project that accomplishes something of interest. Edit: Big tech usually pays the most, Google Amazon, etc, but it’s relatively easy to find a high paying position in the software space.
Thank you for the feedback. If you had had to hire a candidate for your team, what project would you like to see on the candidates resume?
Building some sort of web application is great in my opinion as you get the full stack developer experience, frontend development (angular/react), backend development (springboot or other rest api), and can even work in some database work as well
With companies laying off left and right, are you sure you like to jump wagon? The market is flooding with software engineers with experience already. In case you don't know: Meta is laying off people. So is Google and Amazon. Layoff.fyi is more trending nowadays. Do what you love and love what you do.
Hey, layoffs are pretty bad right now. I am giving myself a year to transition. Hoping the dust to have settled and a new era of TC-bragging to have begun 😂
I won't be too sure of that. Last time stagflation hits, it needs a decade to recover. Besides, I think money is where your expertise lies. If you're changing your career everytime you're hearing that a field is flourishing, then you'll be always on the tail. For me, it's better to do what you love and when you're good enough, money will follow. If money is really what you like, being a drug lord will reach your goal faster than being a software engineer. So, is the goal being a swe or getting loads of money?
Most here are asking if OP wants to switch during recession. His question is how to prep for transitioning to software. He won’t be transitioning in a day.
That’s correct. I am giving myself a year. Things would hopefully be better in tech by then.
Learn the MEAN or LAMP stack and a react framework for web development. Learn about cloud computing and micro services. Learn about distributed systems. Do a project for each of these and track the progress via github (commit your changes to a repository there). And you’ll be well rounded for any software engineering role you desire
What exactly makes someone employable in cloud computing area? Does running simulations with AWS count? Or something more?
Im trying to transition as well, thinking about a bootcamp
Bootcamp is a way to go. When I was in Hack Reactor, there were PhDs from different field, engineers from different fields, lawyers and accountants. Only go to the best bootcamps. Hack Reactor App academy Code smith
What do you think about Hack Reactor’s 19 week program vs its 12 week
I had done the 36 weeks part time, which is same as the 12 weeks full time. I think I have learn enough to get a job and keep self teaching new languages, frameworks, libraries, skills, CS knowledge, data structures, algorithms and more. They have a strong emphasis on self teaching but will provide you important knowledge, guidances and background in CS for you to keep going. I believe the main difference between 12 weeks and 19 weeks is that they teach you python as a backend instead of NodeJS. It’s just a few more weeks so why not?
Bad time to get in to software engineering with all the lay offs
Get out of tech. Bus is full. Switch to premed.
I did similar move 5 years ago after my PhD and a few months at big pharma company. The best carreer move for me and all my friends that can code. As to prep Leetcode (get premium so you can see official solution) and more of it, but also full course in Algorithms on coursera for example. 2nd system design is a must know now even for mid level: Alex Xu books are awesome and educative.io is good (but not free). So total cost of <400$ and 1 year of hard work and you would be ready for mid level positions
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Yes, hiring is tight right now. Hoping to transition in a year or so.