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I'd consider a coding bootcamp, the good ones give you a very minimal brand, but given your business and engineering experience my guess is that it's all you'd
by hackitup7 5y ago
I'd consider a coding bootcamp, the good ones give you a very minimal brand, but given your business and engineering experience my guess is that it's all you'd need to make the switch fairly seamlessly. You may take a compensation hit.
There are an enormous number of opportunities for software engineers right now, the market is hotter than I've ever seen it. We desperately need people to be retrained, cross-trained, any version of trained.
- flower1528 5y agoWhich verticals are not saturated yet? Web dev is almost impossible to get in.
- himanshuy 5y agoData engineering is full of opportunities.
- joelbluminator 5y agoI think all verticals are really hard for juniors; it's not like everyone is looking for junior C devs...
- RNCTX 5y ago> You may take a compensation hit. Does not align with... > the market is hotter than I've ever seen it. We desperately need people Pick one. If the software / web businesses aren't going to compete with other engineering businesses, they're not going to compete. At the end of the day it's pulling recent grads from the same pools (math/eng).
- sokoloff 5y agoMid 40s Mech E switching to entry-level SWE may very take a comp hit, even if the SWE field is indeed the hottest I’ve ever seen it (including 1999).