RE: career change. How much experience do you have already coding? We have a civil engineer at Formation.dev right now with a similar background but who has been self studying for some time now and crushing it. It could be a good path to consider if you are already at our bar and I can ask them if they would talk to you to give you advice. If you already have your plans set then ignore me and keep going.
RE: job market. I can comment on what we've seen at Formation. We have seen zero offers rescinded or layoffs. We have seen a very small number (under 10) of cancelled interviews (specifically at the headline companies that have rescinded offers/hiring freezes). On the other hand we've seen a lot of companies aggressively hiring and compensation has been increasing. If anything we've seen a pickup in hiring. We've had more people got to Google, Amazon, Microsoft than ever.... 15 out of the last 50 accepted offers are these three companies ALONE haha and there were more at these three that were turned down (people turn down Google here sometimes 😱).
The biggest problem right now that I've seen is things changing week to week so the job hunt is a bit more thrashy. e.g. a company will say we're pausing this position one week, then reopen the next week, interview, person passes, and then be like that position is paused but another team will hire you. It all works out just a little more turbulence than usual.
cc: u/Far-Cartographer-615 and u/thorth18 from below
u/thorth18 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I appreciate the insight. Hard to tell what’s truly going on in the industry when looking from the outside.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Let's just say companies don't publish press releases and headlines that say "Hiring plans unchanged!" lol
u/Far-Cartographer-615 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thanks for the reply & I would love to get some advice from formation.developer. I have very little experience (matlab from school) but I was gonna study before I start the bootcamp. Also, that’s encouraging to hear that companies are not affected as much by the economy.
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Yeah look at the website. We have a fairly high bar and 90%+ of people we work with have worked for at least 1 year in the industry already as an engineer. But we can help some people who are self taught (or also who did a bootcamp already). Our training does not work well otherwise and we can't work with you.
If you are comfortable answering programming problems with Binary Tree, Linked Lists, and Arrays then look at the website more and let me know and it might be worth going farther. Otherwise, I would do a bootcamp first.