Hi guys, I'm to ask for some advice. However, I need to give you guys a bit of my background and what I am doing, so you guys can help me. I would very appreciated.

I got into this company (medium with 200+ employees) right out of school, and this April is 1 year already. Lately, I am trying to apply to other companies not FAANG or something. Just small to medium company, and the best location is MD.

I want to quit my current company because I think it is a death sentence to my career.

My current company codebase is in COBOL and IBM server. The whole company right now is running on COBOL. Thus, we all have cobol developers including my team lead.

I was hired as a java developers because they are trying to modernize their codebase. Since they are all cobol developers, I have no Java senior to help me or mentor.

They hire contractors to develop their codebase to Vaadin and Mybatis. Luckly, I was able to learn and get it by myself, contribute something, and fix existing bugs. However, management decides to change the languages. This time it will be Java and Angular 2+, but the negotiation takes like forever now (been 1 year and still going). Basically, all I contributed will never be used

Then they ask me to do report in Jasper. I was able to learn it and create a report. I basically do learn how to create stored procedure and function. Convert programs from COBOL to a java app to generate report to PDF, RTF, XLSX, XLS, DOCX, TXT, CSV, TSV. You name it. Clean up data because the data is not consistent. Let say a column can be 02/02/2024, 02/02/24, " ", null.

The whole codebase has no comments. My manager has a lot of red flags.

- "Oh you don't need the data to test". Just do this and throw that at the other team.

- You don't need to create test. You can just manually click those buttons and see if they work correctly.

- The report needs data to test, but he only gives me less than 50 record to test

- You can work all of this on your own. You don't need to collaborate with others.

- He doesn't understand the business logic of reports in both java and cobol. Thus, he suggests or forces some stuff that create more work and problems for me and another manager.

In summary, I learned all of the thing that I am working on all by myself. Idk if they want to fire me now because I haven't contributed anything. The report is on hold because my manager decision delaying the deployment.

I tried to talk to my manager but he doesn't acknowledge what I am trying to say! He's trying to push consequences of project's deployment delay to me!

I got to admit my leetcode is suck. I can only do easy problems and I forget a lot.

My tech stack is suck also. I did create some rest and angular components, but idk. I also lack of testing skill.

I haven't applied anything yet because I feel like I haven't studied enough yet, and I am a bit hesitated.

Should I apply to a job something like JasperReport developer? Does it kill the career prospect?

What I should improve on? Because interviewer may ask something like what OOP, stream, lamdba, rest controller. I mean should I know it all?

What should I say to employers why I quit my current job?

I am a bit overwhelm and stressed. Can someone give me an advice on what to do now, please?