Do nanodegrees and udemy/udacity type certificates ACTUALLY help change career from non SWE to SWE in FANG?
As in title
All you need is to nail the interviews. As long as you can do that no one cares about the degrees.
You can only nail the interviews if you get to the interviews. How are you gonna get the interview wothout any mooc's or something like that?
I know someone who did just that
If you luck out and get a question that you wouldn't know the answer to were it not for the course, then I guess it helped. I was thinking maybe if a recruiter is on the fence about reaching out, that might make a difference, but I'm pretty sure recruiters never read any LinkedIn profile and are 100% automated in all cases. At the interview, it makes zero difference.
Don’t forget about system design. Leetcode doesn’t help that.
Not sure what you been by “help”. Anything that teaches you something new helps. If you mean someone will see it on your resume and say “OMG, we better hire this guy/gal” probably not.
These people that do these nano degrees are so proud when they get the certificate. Little do they know it's pretty much worthless.
Understood from the poll above that it has very low to 0 impact in the final hiring decision. But how to get a call? For ex, if I'm a Mech or EE working on engg but not SWE, and have 10 yoe, how do I make recruiters call me for a screen in the first place? What are some tips to get that onsite if I have no "relevant" SWE experience? Again the goal is a 500K TC at FANG :-)
LOLOL from Intel 150 TC to FANG 500 TC... I guess it's good to have a dream
It depends on what you actually learned from the degrees and your previous experience/background.
Do them so you get good enough to leetcode. Only leetcode matters.