Ask HN: Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?

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Re: Ask HN: Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?

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Post by danpalmer » Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 11:12 AM UTC

_kyran wrote: post #21

danpalmer wrote: post #3

I can't provide much help with advice for a career change, but I have some thoughts on your current situation... > I feel like my skillset (Python and Django) is slowly fading into irrelevance (everyone seems to be about machine learning and data science nowadays) Machine learning and data science are certainly trendy, but there are still 100s of developers for everyone in those areas, and will be for a long time. Th…

What kind of pathways have you seen that lead in to product management? I'm yet to see a job listing for a PM that doesn't require experience as a PM.

I've seen "early employees" do well as PMs. These are employees who started out ostensibly in marketing, or operations, but at a scale where everyone in the company still does a bit of everything. These people naturally grow with the company knowing so much about the internal workings of the company and the product that they are the perfect candidate for a PM role even if they have no formal PM experience.

I've seen 2 people do this at my current company and have heard similar things from other companies where it worked very well.

Re: Ask HN: Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?

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Post by ccdev » Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 8:56 PM UTC

Tade0 wrote: post #78

ccdev wrote: post #77

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What is your opinion on companies that interview with requiring rote knowledge on frameworks, or even put it on the job titles (eg. Senior Django developer)? My city is full of these and there is the disconnect online I get from interview prep guides on algorithms, but none of that benefits me in the local companies I apply for. A lot of these companies flat out ignore me, despite that I know OOP development well eno…

> What is your opinion on companies that interview with requiring rote knowledge on frameworks, or even put it on the job titles (eg. Senior Django developer)? I know why they're doing this and IMHO it's a dead end. Among companies with tight budgets(I worked for a few of those) there's a notion that you'll get more value out of someone who already knows the required framework so you should focus on that in the recru…

Some of the big tech companies create the frameworks that are used by a myriad of other companies. These frameworks, incidentally are open-source and worked on by a lot of people for free. But do they have paid employees working on them as well?

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