Excellent advice. I did that too, applied to Data analytics/Engineering companies where my DA skills would have clearly made a difference as a soft eng. Got th

Excellent advice. I did that too, applied to Data analytics/Engineering companies where my DA skills would have clearly made a difference as a soft eng. Got the same rejections. My conclusion is that companies no longer believe in people with unconventional paths like mine. You either have a CS degree and a bunch of internships as soft eng or you are toast. Although I do have an engineering degree (not CS), I am stuck in the zone where I am clearly more than good enough to be hired but won't be because I don't have the perfect pedigree. It's just that people in bootcamps sell you this pipe dream that you can do a reconversion and in reality it is almost never possible. Maybe it was possible in the past, but right now it feels like an impossible task. It is very frustrating, being good at sth, knowing that if you get a chance you will become even better at it in a very short time, but never getting any chance to start. I guess that's life. No one will ever come to save you.