Career questions tagged careershift
Trying to shift career to software engineering at age of 30. Any advice?
After browsed many pages of questions i barely found q&as about career shift. I would like to throw one. I am a environmental engineer worked for 5 years with a master degree. In recent two years i started feeling more and more interested to the computer science and coding, especially in machine learning. I started taught myself coding in python with online algorithm classes and textbook. I tried school 42's intence c programming and quite enjoyed it. I also glanced over very basic fullstack skills with django and flask. As the biggest investment, I spend a ton of time on math, statistics, probabilities, machine learning, and deep learning. I am now fairly comfortable replicating kaggle kernels, with good understanding and intuition behind common algorithms like xgb, cnn and vanilla rnn. After two years of learning, i now am thinking of landing a data-oriented job in tech field. What kind of positions in industry is a good shot for me, their levels, functions, etc? What should my resume be like for those positions, what projects, education, experience? I am open to any tech roles. #technology #engineering #careershift Thanks in advance!
