Just curious between the meta/Twitter layoffs if there will be a slowdown of hiring, and more competition in the dev space.
I’m a life long fabricator turning programmer, simply because I want to live anywhere but where I’m at, and work from home.
I also have experience and projects made with machine learning, which I’ve found is my real passion.
Like I put in the title, not an employee, someone looking to make a career change wanting insight on the tech space.
living in reality is being a "Negative Nelly"
@1fvd+1jEmRgMa your advice is terrible and sounds like something a woman would say to a 13 year old
Good on you for learning a new skill and changing your life. Don't listen to the naysayers there will ALWAYS be "Negative Nellies." I have hired tech folks, not now unfortunately (hiring freeze), and have always looked for two things - passion and positive attitude. The rest I can teach. I'm oh-so-wary of entitlement and "I'm a genius, so I font have to play well with others." A job search is hard, very hard, but approach it like any other project, with milestones and learning/feedback loops. Each failure is an opportunity to learn and do better. Two specific pieces of advice: 1) Have a well-though put story - why are you changing careers, why do you love machine learning? 2) Look for places where you are a painkiller (need to have) not a gum drop (nice to have). With that in mind, craft your story to show me why YOU are my painkiller. I don't care about your personal life, your problems - wanting to move out, wfh, etc. I care about why your drive, self-learning, ambition are going to make you my perfect painkiller for MY problem. Who's feeling the I-need-a-ML-developer pain? I dunno, you need to research your marker, but off the top of my head - Support Logic, MonkeyLearn, Gainsight, Salesforce Project Einstein, any car company, any financial analyst, etc. Go for the big companies right now, but try them all. Don't obsess over WFH, take what gets you started. Passion, humility, drive. Best of luck!
go back to fabricating. the supply of developers far exceeds the demand.
Nobody knows for sure, but there are various metrics comparing 2022 to 2000 (and even to 1929).
https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
If 2022 turns out to resemble 2000, then we haven't seen the big layoffs yet. That was a game of musical chairs. You had to find a safe job before the hiring music stopped.
I got laid off in 2000, got one offer, and took it. Several of my friends got zero offers, so went back to grad school -- to improve their skills until the job market improved.
Now is a time to hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. Make sure the job you have can survive a recession.