Where do I start my career now.
Hay guys, I have been working for 6 years as Software Engineer. I am Sr Software Engineer Full Stack. Mostly NodeJS. Few Rails app but 80 percent NodeJs. I am not doing anything creative and job seems like dead end. When I look at Blind kind of get inspiration to apply to top tier company but its been 6 years since I left college so kind of my algo is not at the top notch. But work is sucky nothing to learn regular UI oracle back end write so API. Noone cares about algo and I really wanna move. Sometimes I feel like just leave the Job and start looking its hard to arrange time for interview and prepare while working. even though theres not much at work I get tired. Any suggestions motivations how to start where would be appretiated. No kids but married. Wife is doing online school so can move anywhere but I also want to buy house once I move.
I love how only 6 years of work exp makes software guys “seniors” ...
Its like a joke here for Sr after you are in company for 4 5 years you are sr. well they will be like Amazon starter so theres that. I had few of my friend joined amazon seattle as sde 2 right after being sr here.
Leetcode.
Seems like you want a lot and not willing to put in the effort and make excuses. Sorry if that sounds rude but this is how you sound like. I worked in a hyper growth startup almost 10-12 hours a day, every other weekend and still prepared enough to crack google, fb, Twitter, Uber and lyft. When do you wake up? 5 am? No? Then start waking up at 5 am and doing leetcode. That is the only way!
Hahaha I guess I need to do it. Anyway did 10 leetcodes today. so hopefully i will tey to do few everyday.
Study leetcode and join Amazon in a development center outside Seattle. Houses are affordable in Austin, Phoenix, Denver, Portland, Minneapolis, Detroit, etc and we hire SDEs in all those cities.