Currently in retail banking and do pretty good for myself but getting tired of the six day a week work week. I have a bachelors from a reputable university in business and have been considering either taking a boot camp software engineering course Or taking coursera classes with certificates. I’m nearly ten years with Wells Fargo and would like to keep my pto time and all that fun stuff but was curious if HR would even consider me for a software engineering role without a real degree…I just don’t want more student loans
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You may know that access to Google Coursera courses are free until 11/6:
https://goo.gle/3mAvDRa (goes directly to the offer)
Or see inthecloud.withgoogle.com
Or if clicking links still freaks you out, check out the recent LinkedIn post by Priyanka Vergadia
Boot camp in what? There are multiple languages and there is a ton of content out there for free. You can also set up free (sometimes trial) accounts with vendors like Google Cloud (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, GitHub, etc. EDX has a bunch of courses. YouTube as well.
Then get certified so you have some basic credentials.
Buy a Raspberry Pi and start with that if you don’t have a PC with Linux. I have a few. All of my tech friends have them. Great learning tool.
I have mentored multiple people here and helped them transition from business to tech. One was a banker who learned SAP and is now developing on Ariba (he quit). Another banker volunteered to help his BU do basic analytics to build skills. He got promoted and out of that role (still here). Yet another got to know the tech team that supports their apps, helped out on a project to enhance an app, and now works for that tech team.
In every case they studied nights and weekends to gain technical knowledge and used work to apply what they learned. They also got to know their tech teams and tried to be involved in product enhancements.
Finally, sign up for our mentoring program and maybe you will get me. Even I have mentors.
Good luck!
Take your programming courses. Create some projects and put them on GitHub.
There is hope. I have been a BSC/Technical Business Systems Associate here for the last 5 years. I don't have a degree of any kind, nor any certificates or anything like that. I was just accepted for an Analytic Consultant 5 job which comes with like a 60K a year raise.
@1dpm plenty of engineers are self-taught, even within FAANG, are self taught without formal education. If you now what you're doing, a bootcamp and some coursework won't do anything but help your chances. A bootcamp alone won't teach you what you need to know, but if you're motivated, it will get you on the path.
With a little luck and lots of hard work you can do it! I used to be a teller and then i applied and got a transfer to a bsc/project manager role, then a few other moves and now i am an Engineering Manager!!
If you think that you can completely pivot your career track by just taking a bootcamp or taking some online classes then you're in for a rude awakening.
Why would they hire a certificate. I guess a piece of paper is about as productive as some of the people around here, so maybe it does make sense.
Truth. I just submitted my stamp for the current period and logged 145 hours
If you're tired of a six day workweek looking at pretty much anything in IT (here) would be a mistake. Tech here gets to work days/nights/weekends/holidays and pretty long hours over that schedule.
Best thing to do is do a job search for job titles you're interested in. See what's listed as required. Is a degree listed? Then you're going to need a degree. If not, then there may be some wiggle room for alternate options.
To address a minor point. After you hit a certain point in your career where you went to college has lesser and lesser impact. It keeps its impact at your alma mater, their post grad placement.