Comment by scarface_74
Comment by scarface_74 5 days ago
So the question becomes how do you get to the interview and stand out among the hundreds of people applying for the same position?
I don’t have a good answer for that as a software developer. I looked for bog standard remote development jobs as a Plan B with 20+ years of development and deep AWS experience last year and the year before and it is a shit show out there now.
Luckily, I have deep experience in my niche - strategic cloud consulting + app dev and a stint working at a BigTech company in the consulting department that opened a lot of doors.
I think the play may be to stay in analytics and get into a well known company.
Also, make sure you are taking on assignments with bigger “scope” and higher “impact”. Don’t be a ticket taker.
> I think the play may be to stay in analytics and get into a well known company.
> Also, make sure you are taking on assignments with bigger “scope” and higher “impact”. Don’t be a ticket taker.
Solid advice, thank you :)
I was a ticket taker. The irony is that I'm not even a week in on my first job and this manager is definitely not making me be a ticket taker. I already completed some scraping projects. Not sure where that falls as being a "data analyst" but yea the data analysts are quite technical anyway (i.e. no one uses Excel, it's all SQL and Python).