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This... sounds extreme. I've worked in tech since 2014 following the "trade route" method of starting in IT support in a small city in England, through QA, and
by exdsq 5y ago
This... sounds extreme. I've worked in tech since 2014 following the "trade route" method of starting in IT support in a small city in England, through QA, and then into software development. I've been a developer since 2017 and currently work as a senior developer in the bay area. In that time I've moved around quite a few jobs and think I've been not been offered maybe two jobs I've applied to from perhaps twenty that I've applied for - that's without a degree. Most of my friends apply to jobs and get them - it's quite a surprise to hear someone has been rejected. Are people just applying for the wrong jobs? Or bad at interviewing? I'd have quit the industry if I was rejected from 25 jobs in a row let alone 350. Maybe these are low effort one-click applications to roles with 1000s of applicants?
- nicolashahn 5y agoYou got a job with a lower barrier to entry and then transferred to development. It's much harder to go straight to development with no industry experience. And once you have any amount of experience it's much, much easier to get a job.
- exdsq 5y agoSure - if you go to other sites Overclockers you'll see this is the suggested route (and has been for years). "Pay your dues" in tech support. I don't know why more people aren't suggested this route - you're paid to do your job rather than paying crazy amounts to risk it through a get-rich-quick-scheme sounding bootcamp. edit: It might be less sexy to get the A+ cert when you're a teenager and work up from there than to go to a good university and get a CS degree, but we've ended up at the same place but without crazy student debt.