I absolutely grinned projects and leetcode my last semester of college, turning into your stereotypical cs student, and I had around 15 coffee chats and applied to over 700 swe internships before finally getting one. This got me thinking about how cooked the swe job market is.
On the other hand, one of my international peers was able to get a cloud engineering internship with one certificate, no projects, and they needed sponsorship too. It seemed as though my peer had a better work life balance in college while still getting a good gig.
This got me thinking about whether I should pivot to cloud engineering.
It makes sense that there is more demand for cloud, since cloud engineers are more specialized and require certificates. The c...
I absolutely grinned projects and leetcode my last semester of college, turning into your stereotypical cs student, and I had around 15 coffee chats and applied to over 700 swe internships before finally getting one. This got me thinking about how cooked the swe job market is.
On the other hand, one of my international peers was able to get a cloud engineering internship with one certificate, no projects, and they needed sponsorship too. It seemed as though my peer had a better work life balance in college while still getting a good gig.
This got me thinking about whether I should pivot to cloud engineering.
It makes sense that there is more demand for cloud, since cloud engineers are more specialized and require certificates. The certificate probably makes you more valuable to a company, similar to accounting certificates or actuarial certificates.
The main thing I was wondering about was whether the market actually demands more cloud engineers than software engineers, and whether senior engineers think it is a good idea to specialize so early in my career.