How do I transition away from a proprietary language as a SWE
I currently work at workday, which uses its own proprietary language which doesn’t exactly correlate to a traditional coding language. I’m looking to branch out. Are there any good companies that hire based off system design and problem solving more than purely LC type coding? If not does anyone have any experience transitioning from a proprietary language to a more traditional SWE role? YOE: 5.5 TC: 220 #engineering #swe
Can’t you just learn something like python and use it on interviews? Most companies don’t care about your language skills and core CS skills should be transferable.
Surely you learned other languages before you got a job there, no? Just start practicing with one until it comes back. Engineers need to be fairly language agnostic these days to begin with. There is not much excuse for not being able to pick something like Python up in a few weeks/months.
In Facebook, we use Hack (a modified PHP) which is useless outside Facebook. Just learn Java or Python, practice LC questions in this language. I give interviews in Java.
Lol language doesn’t matter. I probably worked on 5 different languages in last 8 years. It doesn’t matter. Try to learn a new lang a couple times and this is skill
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Learning a language enough for interview only takes 1 week max, 3 days if it’s python, assuming you have strong programming fundamentals. Learning all the frameworks, modules, ecosystems takes much much longer time, but those won’t be tested in a typical code interview