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What do you mean to pivot you career? It is not the same moving from front end development to backend development than from front end to data scientist. If the
by jorgemf 9y ago
What do you mean to pivot you career? It is not the same moving from front end development to backend development than from front end to data scientist. If the pivot is "highly overlaped" you can try to pivot in your own company, as it probably does both things. If it is something where your past experience means nothing then you will have to start from scratch for the new career. But probably you will progress faster because the way of thinking to solve problems helps a little. Also the experience dealing with people helps, as it is not the same to be a young developer who is eager to eat the world and probably highly unaware of his own skills than someone who knows the limit and how a company works.
When I did a small pivot in my career I basically had to start from scratch. So I sit by myself and start working on a project learning what I wanted to work for. Once I was a bit comfortable I apply to mid-level and junior positions.
- milofeynman 9y agoI'm at a small, dying startup doing Xamarin mobile development and I'm looking to pivot out of xamarin/mobile and into web and data. I am learning online and doing a side project on github, but I don't have experience making this kind of transition. I've thrown on an infrequent job application not expecting much and gotten 0 responses. So I am curious what others who have made that sort of transition do to get noticed. My previous job I found through a local meetup, but it was a framework/language I was familiar with so they wanted/needed me badly.
- jorgemf 9y agoMoving to web should be easier than data. When you do mobile development you do a little of front end and back end (I was Android developer before). Learning a high demanded framework would help in your case. Data will take more time but you can do it if you start as a data engineer developing the data pipeline. But in this case you probably should aim to bigger companies and be hired would be more difficult without experience. For web a small startup will be fine.
- milofeynman 9y agoThanks. Yeah data is a much steeper climb. I am going the web route(I have some experience here already) and will look for a company that does data as well, that way I can learn and get started a little easier.
- martijn_himself 9y agoWhat made you want to pivot from Xamarin? Did you find there is a lack of opportunities, or do you dislike the technology? As someone who is looking into moving to Xamarin development I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
- milofeynman 9y agoXamarin Forms is a dead end in my opinion. I enjoyed writing non-Forms with a shared MVVM framework, but my job was in Forms. I also find mobile development to be too cornered. I was doing both platforms by myself with no room to grow as a developer. I spent too much time in Forms chasing down Forms bugs and trying to figure out why the latest version of Forms broke something new. So a bit of burnout as well. Hope that helps.
- martijn_himself 9y agoThanks. I did get the impression when I looked at it a year ago that it was hastily put together to fill a market demand. Good luck!