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Go work in an industry. Any industry that isn't IT, I suggest manufacturing and raw resource industries like farming and mining. After a year and you get your h
by gtvwill 4y ago
Go work in an industry. Any industry that isn't IT, I suggest manufacturing and raw resource industries like farming and mining. After a year and you get your head around what's going on automate some of their business process or collaborate some some of their data into a form that's easier to interpret.
Sell back to your employer or their competitor. Congrats you've just started your career in coding and you didn't do a single whiteboard riddle I interview. Also your doing real work for real people and making actual differences in day to day lives. Not just some faang companies pleb work, bleeding metrics from the masses.
- chaosbutters314 4y agothis is actually our company/startup for the ChemE type companies. it is just hard to find software/data science people interested in manufacturing/engineering
- gopher_space 4y agoYou’ve also built a mental model of how large systems interface that takes years to acquire from the other direction.
- jalino23 4y agothis is good advice.
- spacemadness 4y agoMuch better advice than “get used to ‘em” as alternatives to the status quo do in fact exist.
- paulkrush 4y agoYep, get in through the backdoor.