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Hi, well I will attempt to help you on the path. This could be a long list, but here it goes.
1. Choose a specialty stack.
What I mean by this is do you want to do server side programming or front-end development. There are many stacks for instance I focus on Java with Spring Boot and React + Typescript for the user interfaces in enterprise web applications.
2. Create a blog website / portfolio
This is by far the most important, even when you are learning you should be writing articles discussing what you learn and examples of your code on GitHub. This allows you to have a reference to point employers to and can justify your knowledge base.
3. Attend software user groups.
Find local or online groups that are in your chosen programming language and attend them. You will make connections and it is a lot easier to get a job of you are connected.
There is a really good book by John Sonmez called soft skills for software developers and the complet software career guide. These are language agnostic and provide a good blueprint on learning and getting into the industry.
In general though you will need to learn a server side language and understand http protocols, database querying and object relational mapping.
You don't need to go to college for this and can learn it on your own if your willing. When I first started I followed these steps and was able to get into the industry in about 6 months as a junior developer.
A good source is udemy for courses but wait on the sales they have to pick up courses for under 10 dollars.
Hope this helps you on your journey.
This is really great advice, but I think I may have conveyed my situation the wrong way. I am actually an embedded software engineer with LM Space. I was wondering if there were hands I could shake to expedite the lengthy interview processes of big tech.
Thank you again for the advice though.
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Amazon has a software development apprenticeship where they pay you a salary and train you to be a software development engineer. My team is on the Fintech side.
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They don’t care. Just apply. A new cohort is starting soon.
Do you have a clearance?
Pretty sure your clearance expires on an anniversary of your last renewal, 5 years, or if you've just had the original investigation, 10 years from that. Is this not correct?
https://breakline.org/veterans/
breakline helps veterans break into big tech. I've had a few friends land some great jobs through them.