How hard is it to land a job with qualifications you don’t have ? /u/Mavyn13 CSCQ protests reddit

Hi everyone,

I’m posting here because I’m going to jobsearch again after a 1 year hiatus and I need to know how realistic my expectations can be.

I’m not from a software background really, my master is in general engineering (think heavily maths/physics oriented, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing even for a career in CS b/c in my country, coming from this university is a big plus for employers) so all my CS experience I got during my last experience really. Although I interned before in research and AI related positions.

So my first job was as a backend SE (java – spring boot stack), during 2 years in a company with a very weak software culture, on a project that’s not super marketable in retrospect in terms of challenges and what I had to do as an engineer. I can say however that I was good at my job, meticulous, tested and commented as much as necessary, did a lot of work on my own to keep up with best practices, learnt design patterns, etc.

I’m now back and ready to take on a challenging role definitely but my issue is : I don’t want to get in a position with the exact same tech stack (I want to learn new things really, during my job), but at the same time is that OK to apply to positions with wildly different stacks, like fullstack positions where they expect frontend experience (I’ve got none except basic HTML / CSS / Javascript), or embedded ? I’m not particularly keen to stay jobless for a long time to get trained and do personal projects to be honest.

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​r/cscareerquestions Hi everyone, I’m posting here because I’m going to jobsearch again after a 1 year hiatus and I need to know how realistic my expectations can be. I’m not from a software background really, my master is in general engineering (think heavily maths/physics oriented, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing even for a career in CS b/c in my country, coming from this university is a big plus for employers) so all my CS experience I got during my last experience really. Although I interned before in research and AI related positions. So my first job was as a backend SE (java – spring boot stack), during 2 years in a company with a very weak software culture, on a project that’s not super marketable in retrospect in terms of challenges and what I had to do as an engineer. I can say however that I was good at my job, meticulous, tested and commented as much as necessary, did a lot of work on my own to keep up with best practices, learnt design patterns, etc. I’m now back and ready to take on a challenging role definitely but my issue is : I don’t want to get in a position with the exact same tech stack (I want to learn new things really, during my job), but at the same time is that OK to apply to positions with wildly different stacks, like fullstack positions where they expect frontend experience (I’ve got none except basic HTML / CSS / Javascript), or embedded ? I’m not particularly keen to stay jobless for a long time to get trained and do personal projects to be honest. submitted by /u/Mavyn13 [link] [comments] 

Hi everyone,

I’m posting here because I’m going to jobsearch again after a 1 year hiatus and I need to know how realistic my expectations can be.

I’m not from a software background really, my master is in general engineering (think heavily maths/physics oriented, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing even for a career in CS b/c in my country, coming from this university is a big plus for employers) so all my CS experience I got during my last experience really. Although I interned before in research and AI related positions.

So my first job was as a backend SE (java – spring boot stack), during 2 years in a company with a very weak software culture, on a project that’s not super marketable in retrospect in terms of challenges and what I had to do as an engineer. I can say however that I was good at my job, meticulous, tested and commented as much as necessary, did a lot of work on my own to keep up with best practices, learnt design patterns, etc.

I’m now back and ready to take on a challenging role definitely but my issue is : I don’t want to get in a position with the exact same tech stack (I want to learn new things really, during my job), but at the same time is that OK to apply to positions with wildly different stacks, like fullstack positions where they expect frontend experience (I’ve got none except basic HTML / CSS / Javascript), or embedded ? I’m not particularly keen to stay jobless for a long time to get trained and do personal projects to be honest.

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