I currently work at WITCH and looking for a switch to a product based company in India. I have been religiously leetcoding and have more than 200+ problems solved on the platform. Now, the problem is that I am not into a development project at TCS and want to switch to a dev role. Seeing the trend I know that it’s difficult to switch to a backend engineer role with 0 exp in dev. I am working on SAP Pi/Po which has 0 coding. I have faked my job role and job description to a spring boot developer at TCS but not sure how that will work out during interviews or later. I have started learning spring boot through Udemy and plan to implement whatever I have written on my resume. Has anyone ever done this? Looking for help/tips. 1.2 yoe Thanks #TCS#job#backend#leetcode
First of all, kudos to you buddy for trying to get out of that rat trap and working hard. A lot of your peers would give in to the comfort of those huge campuses and will be there forever and you'll thank yourself later. You can absolutely do the fake thing but as Walmart said be smart enough to know the ins and outs of the project. Do you have a friend who's in Dev? Talk to them to get some more inside info. Moreover, a good company would not judge you much for the role that you had to play in your previous company but they'll understand that that's a good solid reason why you want to leave that place. And your YOE is only 1.x, you don't have to be worried about the job profile yet. Keep working hard, ensure you engage with the quality of questions than quantity. All the best bud, I am genuinely happy for you. :)
Yeah you totally make sense man. I am just worried if the interviewer digs deeper into what I did. But since you have mentioned that with my level of exp it won’t matter much,I feel relaxed. Thanks a ton man for the kind words.
Assuming everyone's a man here is not cool. :)
what's WITCH?
WIPRO INFOSYS TCS COGNIZANT/CAPGEMINI HCL
This works. My friend has done the same to get out of the rat hole. Make sure you learn enough to explain the architecture and design tradeoffs before the interview and you're good to go.
Thanks a ton man. Yeah I have a friend who is working on spring boot and he told me about what he did and how. I have written the same things on my resume. But just to be on the safer side I am also doing the courses and want to actually implement the things I have mentioned. It’s definitely taking a lot of time and could have practiced DSA in that but I have to do it I think.
I am at the same position and I am scared to fake it somehow trying to get a dev project internally
Dude Don’t try. It’s much better to switch rather than being in TCS and working in dev project.
Once had a colleague in app support profile join Informatica as developer claiming experience with their etl tool, when in reality all we ever did was listen to 1 round of training as part of future tool onboarding plans! She did go through the codebase implemented by a sister team and was smart enough to ensure she could walk them through its implementation if needed.
Oh thanks for your reply. I am doing the courses and learning good in it