What's your background with programming, and your past career and professional work experience?
u/RyanWattsy wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Could consider finishing out your finance degree and minoring in CS. Fintech is a great field to get into
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah would consider trying to have a job leveraging your strengths but in tech or a tech company to try to bridge the gap, and learn on the job or leverage internal resources to learn programming.
u/cooking-chef-2000 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
How many engineers with around 1-2 years of experience generally find a new swe in your program, and what would be the average time it takes for that demographic?
I've been eyeing on the programming and fall under that demographic.
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
1 YOE is taking a long time right now overall in the market and at Formation but I don't have exact averages because each person has different commitments and goals and it's not meaningful to average all people.
Additionally, we have people that had 1 YOE that joined like 2 years ago that it took 2 years to get a job... but the market when they joined was different then. So it's even harder to try to average people who started at different time because the market has been changing. It's like a bootcamps touring 2023 CIRR number when they very well know things are different now... I feel that kind of thing is misleading.
So to help advise I would need to know:
1. what is the 1-2 years of experience and what kind of company?
2. have you been promoted yet?
3. are you getting interviews either directly from recruiters or from applications?
If you work at a solid company, commit fully to Formation, and the answer to 2 and 3 is yes, I'm very roughly just guessing 6 months.
If number 3 is no, then it's a very wide range. We will get your interview skills up to the bar so you make the most of your interviews but there's luck involved in getting the interviews even if you do everything right.
If number 3 is no and 1 and 2 are good, then it still has variance but you are a better candidate for referrals working more effectively to improve your luck.
If none of the answers are positive I would recommend either not doing Formation or expecting it to take a very long time and focusing on getting promoted first at your job.