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Ask HN: What advice would you give a senior software engineering student?
1 point by BitAstronaut on Oct 1, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Switch majors. Now.


I'll make an appointment with advising ASAP.


Switch


You're unemployable at 40 in this field, had I known that I would have studied finance instead. Besides that tech changes so quickly every year or two you basically start over learning a whole new set of skills...and your experience means nothing to hiring companies you still have to answer ridiculous algorithm questions even if you're a frontend programmer.




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