u/coldwhitedays wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thank you for that. I was already Sr. in my old area of expertise, and was in FAANG (M2 there, probably Director level at any other company - at least according to my Linkedin interest). My previous field is not at all a tangential area with SWE, so its a BIG change. I guess my w
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
You should DM me or LinkedIn message me, especially because M2 sounds like it might be Facebook and I worked there 8 years as well.
I can look at your exact experience and try to get ideas, like one of your best options could be to to make a series of hops within a big FAANG company into engineering work.
I would 100% start with self studying with resources like Odin Project before jumping into a bootcamp.
I don't have a lot of data points but if you are already super experienced and comfortable in a field there's a lot more to this decision mentally and I think patience is better to give yourself room.
If you have downtime in this next job hunt, I might consider doing an intense program, while job hunting for your old job, getting your old job type, and then trying to find ways to add in programming at that job on the side in the goal of making a long term internal transition.
Formation is not at all good for starting at zero programming level right now. The technology we built absolutely could work for it, but we're focused on a specific area we work best for right now and feel like we can deliver strong value in already and will get there down the road.