CSCareerQuestions

1788 readers

1 users here now

A community to ask questions about the tech industry!

Rules/Guidelines

Follow the programming.dev site rules
Please only post questions here, not articles to avoid the discussion being about the article instead of the question

Related Communities

!programming@programming.dev - a general programming community
!no_stupid_questions@programming.dev - general question community
!ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev - for questions targeted towards experienced developers

Credits

Icon base by Skoll under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

ericjmorey@programming.dev

odium@programming.dev

I am a USA-based iOS dev with limited experience in backend. I lost all passion for front end and realized that I enjoy backend much more. How difficult is it going to be to transition in this market? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by MortySmith@programming.dev to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have been laid off from my job for a couple of months now. (CS degree/ 4 years experience)

Please don’t just tell me to stick with iOS dev because I just cannot see myself doing it anymore. I literally only sticked with iOS dev because I thought that apps were going to be the future and that all companies needed apps, but it was the other way around, all companies need backend. Looking back a lot of my career decisions were driven by ignorance and Fomo

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

The difficulty really boils down to your aptitude and the job market in your area (unless you’re lucky and can land a remote gig). I would suggest looking around for interesting jobs that are available in your area, and try to find out about their stack.

Knowing the stack will give you something solid to focus your energy on. Each language has their own idioms, and those idioms may not work well in other languages. And coming from iOS, you will soon find that out. 😅 (I say that because Im currently trying to learn macOS/Swift and it’s a whole different ball game than web development)

Find meetups in your area for the languages you’re interested in. While you should know what you’re doing in a job, it also helps to know some people too. And it never hurts to get your name out there.