Ask HN: Who has experience switching tech stacks mid-career?
I've spent most of my career as a full stack Spring/React developer for large enterprises. I don't mind the languages and frameworks so much, but more so the obsessive over-abstraction and bizarre waterfall-with-agile-terminology that goes on in those places. But those are the jobs I keep getting accepted for, even when I completely botch the tech interview.
So I'm looking for stacks coming out of a less overbearing culture. But job ads regardless of the stack seem quite unfriendly to latecomers, most requiring 5-10 years of professional experience. How realistic is it to beat the requirement with intensive private study instead?
In my experience picking up a new language or framework is absolutely trivial compared to learning all the necessary domain and institutional knowledge of a new organization, so I don't think it makes sense to brand developers with one stack or the other, but it is what it is.
So I'm looking for stacks coming out of a less overbearing culture. But job ads regardless of the stack seem quite unfriendly to latecomers, most requiring 5-10 years of professional experience. How realistic is it to beat the requirement with intensive private study instead?
In my experience picking up a new language or framework is absolutely trivial compared to learning all the necessary domain and institutional knowledge of a new organization, so I don't think it makes sense to brand developers with one stack or the other, but it is what it is.