Tips on switching from SE to SWE

Rackspace / Ops
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plastic_t
Jan 24, 2020 6 Comments

TC: 130K
YOE: 6
No degree

Looking to move into SWE role at FAANG sometime from now. (Maybe a year or two).

I'm currently at a unicorn (not Rackspace) as a SE (solutions engineer) and I work mostly with infra/security and some VERY light JS problem solving.

I'm bouncing between getting a bachelors and/or Fullstack bootcamp to get the skills/credentials to move into a FAANG. I know nearly no one at any FAANG's currently, so referrals will be difficult.

Question: Should I get a cyber sec degree within a year (WGU) and then go through the bootcamp or should I just stick to projects and bootcamp before applying at FAANG's?

Light me up fam.

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