LazyProgrammer
LazyProgrammer

Anyone here switched from Frontend to Backend engg

After 3 yeo of experience in FE i am looking to switch to BE but want to take advice from peeps who have actually done that. If you have any pointers plz suggest me. Thanks in advance.

15mo ago
ThickMangoShake
ThickMangoShake
Swiggy15mo

I did the same.. i was more towards FE and switched to full BE role. You have to learn and understand a lot things including current project backend too.
I did work on some BE tasks so highlighted only them in resume while i was making the switch. Also i did had much exposure i tried understanding everything and code up a lot of things for better understanding, i choose java for it.

LazyProgrammer
LazyProgrammer

Great. Did u got the full time BE opportunity in ur current organization or only after switch. Also did u sellted for any paycuts?

ThickMangoShake
ThickMangoShake
Swiggy15mo

I asked them to give me BE work but only gave me 15-20% of BE work rest FE. So i was not happy with it, but i worked till I made sure i have good enough projects(45-50mins of discussion on happy flow, edge cases, scaling etc) to talk about in HM round.

And no pay cuts i joined new org with 80% hike.
It took me 3 months to prepare and crack, where i used to do divC/D in contests, was sound with cp/dsa.

But this was initial of my career I had 1+ year exp. that time.
In that time, I interviewed with 5 companies, cracked two, said no to rest 3, all were mid-large startups.

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