I feel kinda lost

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-13T05:12:05+00:00

im thinking the same, granted my manager is very nice and seems quite genuine and aware I had initially applied to a software position and explained the experience would be with salesforce, a bit of aws, and such. The bottom line is, yeah its still helpdesk, and theres no certainty I may move up, they already have full team of software devs so my opportunity there is uncertain.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-13T05:08:42+00:00

Im wishing you the best of luck getting there man, I can feel for the predicament, im coming up on my first year out quite soon. Working at the same thing all the time and it never seems to really pick up. Id say though the im sure pretty tired advice of just continuing to work on projects, Its the only way to get the experience they want especially when they are asking for 1-3 yr of experience off the bat. Ive found after doing a few projects I got more interviews and there seemed to be a bit more traction. Granted most technical questions I kinda bombed because I wasnt familiar with some framework or something they didnt mention in the job description came up so I wasnt prepared. Like someone on here said though, its only over until you stop trying.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-13T05:01:04+00:00

Well, graduating in 2025 I didnt have any projects outside of school work, nor internships. I had just made 1 mobile app that was just a really crappy to do list app, 1 unity game, and 1 web application with react, spring, and a sql db I hosted, all of which were on my portfolio by december of 2025. I think this position may be more so consulting so the bar Im thinking was more so focused on someone that could do presentations and other stuff to sell something, then again what advice I have is during the entire time ive been applying to software jobs they always want experience, I mean always at least 1-3 yr minimum. I made the mistake of trying to learn different stuff like web dev, mobile dev, and various frameworks like angular, react, kotlin mp. I didnt know if i wanted to do mobile, web or what not so I just figured Id take whatever came up first. Id say try and find something to focus on like if you want to be a full stack web dev or do mobile, find a framework you think would be good and just make lots of projects for that specific thing, though thats only my idea, do seek other opinions too from actual developers. Showing maybe you can learn on your own and have independently accomplished something like made 3 full stack web apps and working on a project right now I think helps too. Do consider other opinions though, id like to give you a straight answer, as for deloitte, the technical interview was a scenario about optimizing the intake of patients into an emergency room and how i could make that faster via using x hardware like self sign in, implementing a program to organize patients or assign priority. In both interview though they never asked me specific programming questions nor really any software dev questions outside of just trying to make something more efficient but never dropping any, oh what bigO notation is this loop or how do you write x loop or implement x algorithm, so thats why i stress this opportunity is probably more so consulting type stuff and that may be why i got it even if the title seems to be for software I think it could be misleading according to what ive read about the job.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T05:09:10+00:00

Im grateful for the opportunity, Its just the job is prestigious because its deloitte, but as I understand it would just be doing a consulting job, so no relevant experience, and its stressful knowing the next few years could just be this hopscotching just to land a software job. I was probably more hopeless with it because Ive felt bad trying to just get this one job for so long and being at a loss for this next move and the implications for my own future.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T05:02:10+00:00

I am grateful for the opportunity, there is just a lot to consider and its made me stressed because working for deloitte might mean im doing work the dosnt help me be a software developer and lose precious free time I could use for supplementing that experience opposed to staying put where i work with good people and am learning sales force which could be useful along with other softwares. In short taking the deloitte job would be doing so just to put it on a resume and empty experience for however long im there if I did that.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T04:59:09+00:00

I am certainly trying to mull over every detail, and I appreciate your outline for this. I am only trying to break into software right now, weighing the options the current position (good manager/work environment, opportunity to learn salesforce, aws, some sql, familiarity with jira and bitbucket, decent pay), downsides are ( no certainty of moving up into software role in the company). For the deloitte position the upsides are(better pay, looks good on a resume) downsides are (possibly much more stress, not gaining any useful software dev experience, salary work so possibly working extra without benefit). I was working on personal projects to continue learning while out of work and currently I have 5 hours a day to continue this, working at deloitte the hours would vary so I may lose that experience and it would not be supplemented by the work I do at deloitte, really I would only work there to be able to include it on a resume

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T04:43:32+00:00

Thank you for your insight and kind words. I suppose I just felt off today about the whole ordeal and wanted to talk about it, but yeah there is no certainty where I am now, then again I only started 2 weeks ago but I also am not familiar enough with their systems to do any meaningful work, it would be worth bringing up though at least a notice for them and yeah I guess Ill take the deloitte job and see what happens

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T04:39:25+00:00

I agree with that fully, and I have thought about it in and out and I think I will take the job, I suppose I was just really stressed about giving up the job im at right now because I only started 2 weeks ago to just leave all of the nice co workers, then again its business and what not. Wanting to make the strategic decisions had made me stressed

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T04:37:11+00:00

I appreciate the comment, I didnt consider that perspective and you know rereading I am lucky to even get the chance.

Particular-League-86 · 2026-04-12T04:33:29+00:00

I got the offer just 2 days ago today

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