I am in the IT industry 15+ years. Started as a support engineer primarily around applications deployed in Linux. Evolved thru the years to become a Platform Engineer developing knowledge around deploying and supporting large enterprise applications with multiple layers. I can talk multiple IT subjects including advanced networking, storage, identity management, security, databases and pretty much every aspect around any enterprise application, but I do not know how to write any code apart from shell scripting. I have helped developers multiple times to understand how their code interact with firewalls, web servers, filesystems and to fix/remediate production issues of broad impact. But now it feels that all the hot paying jobs or to be honest every job I see asks for code development experience and I am not sure if this is something I should purse at this time and how it will benefit me. Anyone here in the same shoes?
This post speaks to me. I can code in domain specific context but not to the level or ‘cleaness’ of a full time software developer and the thought of grinding leetcode to pass an interview is nauseating.
Infrastructure-as-Code does seem like the future to me. You should be able to learn that fairly easily with time. I don't think you need to be a full-fledged SWE.
Similar boat as you, but I know how to code. My leetcode skills are non-existent though.
you comfortable like that or anything in mind?
I'm trying to decide if I really want to invest a significant amount of time learning to leetcode just to pass a SWE interview. Leetcoding has nothing to do with being a good engineer.