Should I take a strategy and operations management role at McMastercar? Im a hardware engineering trying to switch into tech. I was going after a software role but I failed an interview and realized I needed to grind leetcode for a month. I had this recruiter reach out to me for this role. I dislike my job, and location and wonder if I should take this role. It seems easy and I could use the free time gained for study hard for a year to then try again for the Amazon SDE role.

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Basically the place I’m at now I’m just hating the role and the location. Thought why not take this as a pivot to be able to get free time to study or maybe I’d like it and make it a career.

I haven't heard great things about working at McMaster Carr, but my info is 5+ years old. There's a chance the job or wlb isn't that much better. Joining a new place just because you hate your current role doesn't seem like a strategy for long term success.

I might recommend staying in the current job if you just want to meet code for a month and keep hunting. This will avoid you looking like a job hopper, or like someone who couldn't cut it in engineering, and it might help you not get sidetracked into a strategy &ops role. It might be easier to get into technical roles in the tech industry from a hardware engineering role than a strategy & ops role at an industrial supplier. Your technical background will help you stand out. If you had an s&o offer in tech, I'd take it, but not elsewhere.

The other option was a recruiter that just hit me up for a Product Marketing Engineer role at National Instruments (NI). I assume that’s piece of advise would also apply for they role?

I think I need maybe 6 months of study to really get to a point of passing the leetcode assignments.

The other option is to take that product marketing engineering role and use it to get the masters in data science/ software engineering. It’s an easier role and it’s in Austin. I could easily get the masters from UT Austin while I’m doing a relatively easy role.
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