Reposting with paraphrasing, "greentext style". Be me, a Senior Developer on a dying platform. Current Salary is still good, but a lot of people are already abandoning the platform (clients/users/even developers) opting to use a different platform (Cloud based/SaaS). Have been wanting to switch to a different career path, but to no avail (no internal transfer/team that i can go to). Knowledgeable in a number of other stack/programming languages, but due to the lack of hands-on experience, recruiters seemed to avoid my profile. 1. not sure if i can apply for Entry level positions for the "other stacks". - even if i can apply, i am not sure i can survive with the salary, or what it would look like to the hiring company/manager. 2. applying as non-Entry/Junior developer, my background, experience and skills might not look strong enough for those positions as i do not have experience to show for the stack. So how do i curate my profile/resume to make it attractive enough where recruiters (internal to the company) themselves would contact me?
Emphasize buisness results rather than tech stack
problem is, what i have been doing is hard to quantify from "business result" perspective. It is kinda like you are asked to develop a certain feature, enhancement, which a product manager had asked you to do, so, it is not really your original idea to enhance something. Apart from saying "I implemented this feature/changes" not much i feel i can say
Put estimates then. As long as you aren’t embellishing, no-one will check. Present a best-case scenario of the result of your work. Kind of like how every cloud provider says their new product will “cut costs by 70%” Of course, that number is always optimistic but they based it on something that had some semblance of justifiability. Think like a marketer, not an engineer.
I had a hunch about comments like this when I saw the title
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just call yourself an "Architect".
What’s the dying platform? Just curious
Probably some enterprise software that is being eaten alive by cloud
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Your best bet here is to get into FAANG or a company with a similar brand quality. After you’ve been in FAANG, your problem will be dealing with so many recruiters hitting on you. To achieve this, you’ll need to put significant time to prepare. Join a training like Interview Kickstart. If you show you’re good, they will probably get you referrals to FAANG. Good luck.
I feel real senior people will not be limited by the tech stack they used. The knowledge and ability to learn is more important.
Tech stack isn't what's important. Talk about what you built, not necessarily how (in detail) you built it. Nobody's going to ask you the nitty gritty of how you built it, they'll ask you the overall architecture of it.
Take assessment like Triplebyte, and if you score high you don't need to worry about recruiters. Triplebyte will match you directly with the likes of Facebook, Apple, Stripe, and you can select which companies to talk to. Tuning your resume and waiting to be found is not a good way to get a great job.
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Start working on side projects related to the area you want to move next
i thought of side projects but not sure what i can do on those? should i try to get part time gig using the "new stack"? or just do anything i like and put it on my Github? During some phonecalls with recruiters, i did share part time self initiated project i worked on (those are not listed on my resume), and the projects are beginners projects to be honest, still those recruiters said "we want someone who do this on his/her daily job"
Gonna use two examples. If you want to move into distributed systems, make an auto scaling API out of docker nodes on kubernetes, keep it very simple but obviously show how the nodes expand to demand via load test. Another example, if you want to go into Machine Learning, put up a site with a little game that trains a cannon to shoot a target using a 2-layer neural net. You can come up with lots of stupid easy ideas to showcase your new skills, and all they want to see is that you're familiar with basics of the stack.