Hey Grapeviners,
I need some serious help.
Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience.
Lately, not sure why but I am loving what engineers do. Closely working with them, and I guess it's nostalgic for myself. Because I did coding for 6 months and moved on for some reason. So, I understand how tech actually works. Have got good feedback regarding this.
At the same time, I am not really finding the true value of what I am doing everyday. Feels a void inside.
Also, I am not able to discuss all these things in person with someone, because I fear that they will judge me after doing internships for 3 years, I still haven't figured out my career. Such a loser I am.
I have been thinking about starting coding again and maybe switching to a coding job in the next 6 months maybe. But again it would be tough for me as I only got weekends for me to learn all this stuff.
What do you all experienced folks suggest? What should I do?
Please comment if you can helpš
Quick question It has been less than a month since you graduated and you have 1.5 yrs of Product Experience and 3 years of overall experience. Can you please elaborate?
I feel you are just at your starting stage of your career. Doing 3 years internship might have taught you a lot, but Iām not sure how much this will be counted as your experience. So donāt think too much about being stuck on one area. Thereās still enough time for you to switch to a tech role.
Hereās my suggestion:
There are two advantages:
Eventually when you get confident on switching to a tech role, you can look for opportunities and grab them.
Thank You for explaining this. But I still have the same question. Should I learn tech and still work in products or so I learn tech and eventually move to tech.
Iām assuming you have no immediate tech opportunities to work on. My suggestion is to continue working on product, while looking for work on tech. Eventually youāll hop on to tech job with due diligence.
So the kinda tech you are talking soon gonna get vanished but if you are still planing to be in tech you gotta be a pro at some domain thats my advise to you
People: switching to PM from engineer š« OP: š
I feel first you need to figure out, if you are good at coding. Go build something and ask ppl to give you feedback on it. If you conclude that you do indeed love coding and are good at it you should look for career change.
Also it would be good to understand which parts in your current job you donāt like. What can be done to change that?
Hey Grapeviners,
I need some serious help.
Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience as an intern.
Lately, n...
I am a software engineer with 3 years of experience .For the first two initial years I was working as a QA in one of the good product companies with a very sorted work life balance . I had recently switched to a BE role in a startup I a...
Hello good folks of grapevine, I am very confused with my situation right now. I am currently working at a consumer tech unicorn in a strategy role but really burnt out with the working environment. I have no clarity on my roles and resp...
I am working in a Pre Seed GenAI Startup (2020 Founded) as Head of Engineering (Team of 20 with 5-6 in Engineering, No CTO)
It's been 3.5 years (3yrs Full Time + 6mon Internship) Previously it is in EdTech now in GenAI Space
My CTC i...
I am 3 years into my career and I have deep passion for Software engineering. I genuinely like it. I want to become a better engineer by going deep. But since the time of my internships in college, I have always been fascinated by startu...
