It is not about what your previous job title was, but if you actually have the chops to do the new job. There are many tricks you can use to get an interview.

It is not about what your previous job title was, but if you actually have the chops to do the new job. There are many tricks you can use to get an interview. However nothing abut OPs past shows that he can actually be a productive programmer. >Dev job at IBM No details what he did or for how long. I've been in teams with fresh juniors who are amazing. They bring in new knowledge and new perspectives and over all crush the job. Then I've seen juniors who "work" on something for weeks and weeks and when we start for them to demo how far they are we find out that they haven't been able to produce anything working. >QA at EA While with normal software I'd say this requires at least scripting skills with games I don't know if that is necessarily true and again probably not a good skill set for getting hired as dev in FAANG >Cybersecurity team at college I immediately assume this is some kind of CTF team, which might teach you to use some tools, but again I've seen people in college just "pass through" without really learning anything If the job OP could do and do well was Amazon help desk then he should aim somewhere between FAANG dev and that position and probably erring on the side of the help desk. The new job will teach them more and in a year or two they can apply for a higher position.