I feel like my career has already been killed. How can I save myself?
I’m a SDE and worked in yahoo and then joined microsoft. Due to limited vision/information, visa, politics and bad luck, I didn’t get a chance to work on a good growing team. Most
of my work is just changing configurations, bug fix, small features, also some projects were not launched.
Everyone knows you should put impactful work, money maker, reward, patent on your resume but what can I do if I didn’t work on them. Side projects will not help cause nobody cares those non-industry work from a candidate with several years work experience. LC will not help too cause BQ will fail you. Even smart recruiters can also smell your level and scope from the beginning of the process.
It seems very hard to turn over if you joined a bad team first. I’m now frustrated every day. What should I do?
TC: 180k
YOE: 3.5
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Don’t be so melodramatic.
You have lots of time to pick up and start.