Graduated from undergrad with a degree in CS/econ in May, have a job that pays 🍌 and is barely technical and struggling to get anyone to respond to my job apps. How do I get out of this rut? I just feel that if I can't break into a true engineering role soon the bar will only get higher and I'll miss my chance to pursue my dream career. Advice appreciated! TC: 70k Also is grad school currently a viable way to hit the reset switch on my career?
Keep your eyes open and leet code pretty much.
Yes working on that!
The notion that you need to break into a “true” engineering role right away is false. I’d say breaking into the big tech companies fresh out of school is insanely competitive. Is your🍌 job EY? What practice?
Damn your company pays you in bananas
Start interview prep for FAANGMULA asap.. Don’t listen to people who’re saying it’s too early... Target Amazon L5 or G/F L4 in two years (required YoE is usually 2-7) ... Amzon L6, G L5 won’t be possible w/o 10 yoe in such unknown places.. or might be forever out of reach.. It gets much harder at higher levels..
Oh I am. Just unsure how I'd be qualified for those roles if I'm struggling to get into L1 and not getting much transferable experience on the job. Leetcoding as much as possible but haven't seen huge improvement on that front either- hard are still hard, medium are still medium etc
He works in tax he's not getting L3
In this market, I would negotiate to be paid in trident layers rather than bananas.
True trident is a better store of value...
What kind of experience are you getting and what kind of job are you looking for
A bit of C# here and there but mostly non-transferable grunt work and light web dev. I'd like to be doing backend development but open to anything
Learn SQL and get a couple decent projects under your belt with dapper for c# and learn how to make a basic repository. That will put you into the 100k mark
Yes, a master would help. Plenty people did just that ...
I think you mean gets paid peanuts, not gets paid bananas.
Amazon tho 🙈 but his TC is peanuts, so prob not employed at Amazon.
I feel for ya bro
Get a mentor and practice code/design pattern questions/ design questions and keep applying
Any advice how to find a mentor?
Looking for a mentor too