Dear Fellow Blinders
I’ve been a software engineer since the last 8 years or so in the US and worked in India for 2 years before coming here for my masters. Plan didn’t go as expected and I’ve been working at mostly medium sized and startup companies. In the past 8 years, I could never pass the interviews with Big companies(need the validation) so I was always stuck with smaller No name companies. Started my career very badly, went through a horrible personal time at the start of career in US and got distracted and was in depression for a long time. That depression destroyed my mental capacities, memory etc. Worked on different technologies(languages, frameworks, etc) throughout my career but never got a chance to stick to one thing and be expert in it. I also have the problem where I cannot remember what I read beyond a certain point, so even if I worked on Something, I cannot remember what I knew or worked on( for eg: I was extremely good with sql internals, db internals, Java etc) and come out looking like a novice.
Over the past 7 years or so Ive lost the confidence that I may be a good engineer. Now I’m just a low confidence engineer with little or no knowledge of system design and architecture of a project in general.
I’m very bad at interviewing in general(leetcode etc) but I’m a decent programmer, although I never got a chance to improve my system design knowledge, so I’m always low and confidence and shut my mouth in front of colleagues. (I know I just repeated what I said from above 😆)
Most of my friends and past colleagues are now Staff engineers, director of engineering, leads, principals, managers etc and I’m stuck at SDE 2,3, senior level. It doesn’t help that being on blind depresses me further and makes me super anxious reading about the hefty salaries ppl make.
How can I revive my sideways stuck software engineering career or should I give up and be a stay home person(removing gender part out here for no bias).
🙏🏻🙏🏻
TC: $165K in Bay Area 🥜🥜
YOE: 8 years
#software #swe #engineering
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your problem is comparison and you only compare with people better than you.. I find it hard to believe that everyone you know it's a staff engineer or director... probably you only look at those who are..
step 1 try to understand that with that tc you are better than atleast 6.5 billion people in this world...
stop the rat race it has no end.
step 2 once you get your confidence back start leetcoding..
life will work out for you just fine