> I've applied to over 400 jobs over the last 3 months and have received nearly as many rejections, and at this point I don't know what to do. What's the common reason given? Have you done any interviews yet? Are you certain that it's lack of experience? Is there anything that you can do from a SWE perspective at your current position? Many daily tasks like report building, etc. that you probably do manually can be a…
Thank you for taking the time to reply! Unfortunately, when it comes to online applications, there is never a reason given beyond "We appreciate your application but we have decided to go with a different applicant." As for interviews, I did a few technical interviews last year and discovered my data structures and algorithms knowledge was a little weak. I did spend some time practicing leetcode questions to shore up…
Do you consider devops types of roles software development and something you'd do? Those tasks you describe sound like sys-adminy types of things. Maybe try applying to that type of position?
Another option is to just get same role you have now but in an organization that has people writing code as a major deliverable of the company. I'm assuming there aren't teams like this in your current organization.