Comment by oblio
Yeah, but most devs are working on brownfield projects where they did not choose any part of the tech stack.
Yeah, but most devs are working on brownfield projects where they did not choose any part of the tech stack.
Honestly, now that I think about it, I am using a pre-2020 playbook. I don’t know what the hell I would do these days if I were still a pure developer without the industry connections and having AWS ProServe experience on my resume.
While it is true that I got a job quickly in 2023 and last year when I was looking, while I was interviewing for those two, as a Plan B, I was randomly submitting my resume (which I think is quite good) to literally hundreds of jobs through Indeed and LinkedIn Easy Apply and I heard crickets - regular old enterprise dev jobs that wanted C#, Node or Python experience on top of AWS.
I don’t really have any generic strategy for people these days aside from whatever job you are at, don’t be a ticket taker and be over larger initiatives.
Mid 2020 - at AWS ProServe the internal consulting arm of AWS - full time job
Late 2023 - full time at a third party AWS consulting company. It took around two weeks after I started looking to get an offer
Late 2024 - “Staff consultant” third party consulting company. An internal recruiter reached out to me.
Before 2020 I was just a run of the mill C#/JS enterprise developer. I didn’t open the AWS console for the first time until mid 2018.
They can choose jobs. Starting with my 3rd job in 2008, I always chose my employer based on how it would help me get my n+1 job and that was based on tech stack I would be using.
Once a saw a misalignment between market demands and current tech stack my employer was using, I changed jobs. I’m on job #10 now.