Career Advice Needed: Transitioning from Support to Development

Hi All, Hope you are all doing well. I'm stuck in support role, handling incident tickets & publishing status reports since 1.5 years. My learning is almost null. I'm currently doing java DSA (350) & picking up on springboot tutorials. Given the support job role, 90 days np, & current market, how difficult is it to land a backend developer role. (Happy to take paycut). Or should I just quit my current role & enroll for some placement bootcamps. What can I do better to improve myself. Thanks in advance. Tc: 7.65 Yoe: 2 LC count: 350

After 2 years at Wipro in a support role, I've self-taught Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, and basic frontend skills, with good knowledge of DSA. However, I lack hands-on experience in real-time Java projects at my current company. What steps should I take to transition into a Java development role at another company?

Hello, After six years in IT Support, I've come to a realization: my current job lacks the learning and growth opportunities I crave. Each day feels like a repetition of customer support tasks, and I'm eager for a change. I've decided to make the leap into Software Development. To equip myself with the necessary skills, I'm considering enrolling in an online learning platform like CRIO.DO, Scaler, or Bosscoder Academy. However, the fees for these courses are substantial, each exceeding 1 lakh. Before I commit, I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences: Which platform would you recommend for someone transitioning from IT Support to Software Development? Have you or anyone you know successfully transitioned careers through these platforms? Do you believe enrolling in these courses will truly help in securing a Software Development role? I appreciate any insights or advice you can offer as I embark on this journey of career transformation. Thank you! 🚀🔧

Hello community, This post is for getting guidance/opinion on the role switch from support role to development role. I really need help from fellow colleagues and exp professionals to proceed further. So, I had 2.5 years of experience in SAP domain and recently I have switched internally (within the org) to the software engineering team that has complete back end work to do for a foreign client. Tech-stack is Java 17, Eclipse Jersey, MySQL, MongoDB, Azure Cloud and some other technologies too. Parallelly I have been a part of an online platform for software engineering courses (eg. Bosscoder etc), where I learnt DSA, spring boot, HTML, CSS and JavaScript with React framework. The front end engg. part is not covered yet, but a part of the curriculum. Now my doubt is, I am planning to work for some months here and in my resume, stretch the starting time of the SWE role, to shadow down the SAP experience. Like 4-5 months experience shown as a year or so. Tell me if it can be a good strategy to reduce barriers of not having experience to join SDE roles in prod-based MNCs. (I know, that I will have to showcase deserving skills, based on experience, in the next company to get an offer, but still!) Secondly, can the backend framework (Jersey) become a barrier to the job switch to java spring boot roles. Some people told me that experience matters and not the frameworks. I need ur opinions. Lastly, I am recruited as a Senior software engineer, I will have to prove my worth not just to other companies, but internally within the team. How can I learn more in less time, to equalise the skills with the job role, not 100% but even 60-70% would work. Where to start, what to take care?!

Hi all I am working in Infosys from past 2.5 years I joined as fresher now I am thinking to switch for career growth I have worked in Network Operations mostly now I feel like I need to switch in development as I have gain interest in it . But I don’t have much hands on experience on development .. what should I do? Should I start searching for another company immediately or I should focus to gain more knowledge of development? Please help me out I am bit confused

30M here and currently working as a QA. My current ctc is 14LPA(6Y.O.E). Currently I'm on bench and looking out for projects. Parallelly I'm also looking outside, incase I don't get any projects in my current company. The problem here is I'm not very good at writing programs(Or atleast that's what I think) and constantly face issues in programming questions in interviews. I have always been an A+ student, scoring in 90's throughout academics(Scored 100 in chem and phy in 12th). But never been able to clear programming interviews. This is affecting my self-confidence and I keep getting self doubts(One of my senior in my first company told me that, I'm good at theoretical concepts and I fail when it comes to the application of said concepts). Now I'm into automation testing and as I was looking to switch, I kept seeing multiple openings for Mobile Development(Development in general, be it backend/front-end/full stack etc). The below reasons made me thinking as to why not switch to development: 1. My current CTC is low for my exp and testing usually don't have much openings 2. Testers don't have much respect in the Industry(Even from people working along with us) 3. Not much scope to earn more from testing field My current thoughts: 1. Enroll into a Java course from any offline institute and learn Java thoroughly first. 2. Switch to a good company with decent pay 3. Invest time for 1-2 years and learn development and then try for some startups. Any advice to my thoughts? Am I thinking in the right direction? And also, if anyone who has done this transition(Or similar transition) could shed some light on how you did it and what difficulties you faced, I would greatly appreciate it.

Hello I am working in private organisation. I have been working in this startup since last 5 years. So I started my Software Developer journey being Undergraduate Trainee in this company. I am graduated back one year with external education. Right now while working i am pursuing my MCA through online mode of education. I want to stick to development itself . Please suggest me what scope do I have.

Hi , i have 2 years on industry experience in java springboot but i was on bench from starting and haven't brushup my skills much,learned springboot in trainning so have some knowledge of it but doesn't have project experience, so in order to switch or have other urgent job because or recession please give me advise how can i switch to next company and make most out of this situation. P.s i know i am wrong at my part but now i am willing to learn and seek advise so please help me with this regard it would be really helpful for me.

I am a BCA last year student, I am trying to get any job or internship as a web developer position(frontend or backend, bcz I am full stack developer). Any salary amount is accepted bcz I just want to start this career. (Only work from home if the salary is low ) I have some Advance level projects ,it is good but not great. I know basic DSA (using Java) not advance level. How to get job or internship in BCA?