How to expand skillset
I started my engineering career as a mobile developer, kind of got familiar with both platforms but now narrowed mainly into Android work now. I want to expand my skillset into other areas like backend engineering or ML or something more interesting. My current job is just a chase of bugs and feature fix in an Android app that is sort of already legacy in my opinion. I feel stuck and need advise on how to get out of this? Should I take few months break and complete some education and look for a job in different areas? It takes couple of years to get comfortable with new technology/language and every job I see wants "experienced/specialized" engineer in whatever stack they are working in. How do you deal with it? TC: 150K YOE: 8
Get a toy project, play with it, learn more about the topics of your interest and then decide if it will be fun. Also, backend and ML work can be mostly bug fixes and maintenance too.
Just curious..did you do something about this over the past year? I'm in a similar boat.
laying low and avoiding switching jobs/teams till economy settles a bit, in the mean time just doing courses etc. to eventually switch team or job
Same question: My skill set is nothing but starting arguments at this point, I have no developer skills, no networking skills, presentation skills are slim, I honestly feel like I’ve been brainwashed and don’t know how to do anything at this point. And have lost interest in mostly everything I’ve ever know. How to expand and begin to build?
I have seen job descriptions that I know are just fluff language. Apply and try to get the interviews anyways. A referral also helps. Another option is an internal transfer to a different role, maybe somewhere in Watson if you want to go into ML.