Switching out of tech, need advice
TLDR; Laid off as SWE - need advice switching to GTM/product.
Hi, like a lot of others here, I was laid off from a tech role a few months ago. Got over it and after a few bad weeks of despair got myself back out of the hole and kept grinding leetcode and interviewing.
What I’m experiencing is definitely not unique, I can see systemic issues with the floods of job postings across platforms and the dummy recruiting calls that end up going nowhere.
Just had an interview for a Sales engineering position, which is came across cause I was ctrl-F ing for engineering. In terms of soft skills it seemed like I was pretty qualified given my experience dealing with chaos in tech/product.
The first 3 rounds went really well, it was a breath of fresh air. Honestly, honing my soft skills (which i didn’t pay much attention to as a SWE) during preparation was really good.
But I would any advice/pointers/help from people with <5 YoE in traditional engineering who have successfully made the jump.
Cheers.