How To Get Into Software Engineering In 2024 | How To Start Without Any Experience?

[@dariadari3370]

No one wants to reskill to be system admin or network admin/engineer. Weird how people got fixated over programming while IT is so huge

[@Ed-lq9qq]

But are the salaries usually as high for those positions as for positions for Software Engineering ?

[@kobbyampofo]

Surprisingly there are a lot of tech careers that don’t have degrees in schools that have great outlooks while not having the over head of having to reskill like a SWE that pay 6 figures. I’m a software engineer right now making six figures looking to transition into cyber compliance. I wanted the pedigree of being an engineer so bad and I’ve accomplished it and was faced with the realization I don’t love this I don’t care for coding every day, and I don’t want to code anymore for work. It’s not for me ur mileage may vary but the road map on skills u need to be proficient at now adays includes so many other skills like Project management, devops, ux ui, qa when u can make good paying careers just doing one of those things there’s always some other hat ur wearing as a software engineer.

[@dariadari3370]

@@Ed-lq9qq hey, yes they are. They may not be at the beginning of your career but later they grow. In fact if you want to go to cyber security starting as a network specialist is the best path and if you think about DevOps being sysadmin as a good starting point. Also nowadays there are so many people trying to become programmers that salaries dropped and I really don't know if there is such a big difference between being a junior system admin or junior network engineer and junior programmer. But you have less competition for the first ones. The only obstacle to start here is, in my opinion the fact, as an admin, whether it will be a system or networks, you need to build your own lab to learn, so a couple of virtual machines, some network devices, good pc with really good CPU, Wireshark, some monitoring tool like zabbix... It could be more demanding than any laptop with an IDE installed on it, but I think it's very rewarding. And the competition is smaller. But remember if money is the only thing motivating you you won't make it. The amount of time and hard work that will be required from you, the fact that you learn every single day and must stay up to date with all new technologies means you have to be really passionate about it. Money will not be enough to keep you engaged.

[@zach.intech]

Those jobs get outsourced in countries like India 😅

[@josh2482]

IT is as oversaturated as SWE.

[@blade_runna6057]

I used to study programming at university but got a degree in Chinese. I want to study Python and JavaScript and study neural network frameworks and utilize my data science attention to detail skillset.

[@WithSandra]

Great insights, thanks Luca! 😁

[@TechwithLuca]

Thank you for watching

[@juanceja899]

I love all the content you put out it’s so informative. I’m just stuck on what to be studying. I’m not sure if I should keep building projects in React and learn the ins and outs of React or should be heavily focused on DSA and be grinding leetcode. Also while trying to squeeze in some studying for getting the AWS practitioner certification. I graduated a coding bootcamp in April of 2022 and just been building and improving my skills ever since. Any advice on what to focus my studying on while trying to break into tech?

[@TechwithLuca]

Thank you for watching. It sounds like you def knows a lot about what you have been learning. I would say while is good to know the in and outs of react, you should start focusing on applying. I say go for any react role that you can find online that is for entry level. Hit up your bootcamp teacher or any people you met there to see if they have any connection or know any openings. I would say def keep doing what you are doing

[@TheEsotericProgrammer]

I have a masters degree in CS from a top uni in my country, I built my own startup mvp with full-stack SpringBoot REST API + React frontend with CI/CD build pipelines, testing, all that stuff, deployed to Heroku. I learnt that in SE undergrad, where we did practical projects as if we were real devs. From a skills perspective, I am there, but I literally have gotten only 2 OAS/interviews and nothing from really top tech. Am junior.@@TechwithLuca

[@sanapari9872]

Hello can you help me

[@KingFuYouTube]

who needs android dev? i am android dev and been unemployed for almost 1 year now...

[@TechwithLuca]

Keep applying! As one of the more specialized role is more secure especially at mobile android focused companies. I seen many rounds of layoff and most teams that got affected were the iOS side because iOS team sizes are generally bigger than Android. Many internal job posting and external posting I have seen have a lot of android opportunities. While that’s the case nothing is perfect and with the raise of app building and flutter like language we may see some shift in the future for what is a mobile dev.

[@callous21]

What country? Do you have github?

[@KingFuYouTube]

California i do have a github but not really active ​@callous21

[@danban2281]

Thank you!

[@sudiptakumardas844]

Great information Luca, just wandering is mastering Java a good idea for DSA and backend?

[@TechwithLuca]

Java is extremely popular for backend. I been on multiple teams and I have seen a lot of Java(Kotlin now as well). Especially at these older companies Java and C++ are still the most widely used backend language

[@subhajitdey6806]

Luca ! will you make office day video like the one you made a youtube short ??

[@TechwithLuca]

For sure that’s something I am considering

[@kobusbeukman1905]

Hi Luca, thank you so much for your video's, they have really helped me learn allot about the industry. I want to use the next 2 years to gather the necessary knowledge, skills and certificates to get into the industry, at the moment Im stuck between Cybersecurity and Software Engineering. In your opinion which of the two has the better job market for the future?

[@anasouardini]

it should've been: "what alternative jobs to go for in 2024 until the tech job market comes back from the dead"

[@Jk-N8P]

Thanks Luca for the insights. I am a scrum master turned engineer (not fully yet). I see major changes in my area and all of project managers, scrum masters are being replaced due to AI. I am part of Azure Cloud platform team and can do coding in terms of yamls, pipelines, building dashboard etc. I am learning more of these skills in Azure and DevOps. Can you suggest any relevant tech skills that will help me in my area? Or do you suggest a complete shift? I am 15+ years experienced. Quite late, but willing to learn and adapt. Anything you can suggest?

[@TechwithLuca]

Thank you for watching. The more technical the better I don’t know enough about the cloud space so I am not too sure what could be a good specialized path. What I can say is if you think what you are doing can easily be replaced by ai is probably not a good sign; one way to find out is to ask whatever ai tool to do your tasks and observe how well it can do

[@sixis1]

Currently i am a highschool student and want to become and SE. I’ve heard many things about how the job demand is going down and will continue to go down but i’ve also heard things about there going to be much more jobs in the future. What should i believe? because i am really interested in coding and want to get a computer science degree in the future to become an SE.

[@sixis1]

And if it will be useless for me to become one then i could think of a different career idea

[@subhajitdey6806]

Luca when you will make office day in life video ?? @TechwithLuca

[@BelleMorue]

I wonder if it is worth to learn Rust lang when you are good in C++. This is not I dislike using Rust but I feel it is much more interesting for someone who leaned python language. I hate the way computer language evolve. I liked coding in Ada and Fortran, you know. These old languages make cute visual code. Myself, everybody would use BSD and we would build in Ada language with a high focus on formal methods so it is not the market.

[@TechwithLuca]

If you want to learn more languages I say go for it but cpp is one of the best server side languages especially at these bigger tech