My younger brother graduated with mechanical engineering degree last year but now wants to move to software industry. Has anyone done like this before? This is in India. Specially telling this because mechanical engineers have tough time changing fields here.
This is one of the reasons I moved to the US, I graduated in mechanical engineering but learnt CS fundamentals online, through udemy, pluralsight etc., Interviewed and got the job. Only thing that matters these days in the US is leetcode.com I'd assume there are companies out there even in India which only care about your leetcode practice and not the degree.
Hi . I think Im a very good example .. I did my b.tech in Mechanical but got placed in IT MNC .. Got trained by the company . Basically my initial days were tough .. and struggled a little bit during my initial days in the project. After that everything is just fine.. your brother would still be considered fresher in the job market . I would recommend learning a programming language to crack interviews .. cracking interviews , that’s all matters at the end
He is preparing for interviews, the only problem is that most companies ask for CSE for software engineer.
I have bachelor in mechanical, masters in computer science. So does the leader 3 levels above me. I have a coworker with electrical engineering bachelor and masters in computer science. Engineering is a strong backbone to build CS career on, but you need that CS degree too if you want to be taken seriously.
You did your masters in India? Because here they need gate score in CSE, if you want to do masters in CSE.
Sorry, should have said that. American degrees
I did my bachelor's in mechanical engineering and was hired by mass recruiter (sabka Messiah aka Infosys) I never joined Infosys because my F1 Visa got approved.
Out of a batch of 90 students in my Mechanical engineering class in undergrad, more than 60 were hired by IT companies during campus recruiting. That wasn't just common at my college, but a fairly standard trend around that time in India. Granted this was 15 years back, but I would be surprised if things have changed much.
Yes..I did that
Great, but how?
I did my Masters in Computational Engineering. Just have him learn coding on his own and show his coding projects on his resume
One of my Google interviewers was PhD mech e.
I dropped out of my mech eng course, managed to transition into software engineering by taking a few courses and building a portfolio to get interviews. started out in intern roles, now doing full time.
I did it in US. Not sure about how much they care about credentials in India. If you have the skills, someone will give you a shot eventually
This experience is not related to India but I know SWEs who have transitioned into the field without CS degrees. One has a PhD in civil engineering and the other has a bachelors in mechanical engineering. They are both pretty good engineers but they had to learn some fundamentals of CS like data structures and stuff. It would depend on how rigorous of an interview the place gives
Thanks for replying. But mostly companies here usually have this eligibility that the candidate needs to have CS degree.
Yes unfortunately if they are gatekeeping you with a CS degree as a requirement there is not really a way around that. HR will screen you out before you even get a chance.