u/genkai_of_the_west

Early career software engineer looking for advice on how to prep myself as much as possible for the next stages of my career.

For context I’ve been at my current company doing full stack web dev (React/TypeScript/Go/MongoDB mostly) for a little over 1.5 years and actually got promoted last month to Software Engineer 2. My experience has been great thus far, however the two senior people (who also served as my managers) on my team have just left and as a result I expect there not to be as much mentorship/room for growth in my current role. This has left me feeling anxious with the feeling of needing to pick up more responsibility for the sake of my team who are all also around the same level of experience as me.

I also recently went through an interview process for another Software Engineer role at a different company after casually applying to a few jobs to test the waters, but didn’t get chosen over another candidate with more YoE than me.

With all this in mind I’m wondering how I can best prepare myself to succeed in my current role for the time being and eventually find a better one in the future. Some initial things I’ve done were to start reviewing leetcode again and as well as system design in my free time. I obviously don’t plan on quitting my current job without another offer at hand, and I’m very grateful that I have a job in the first place with all the uncertainty going on in this field. Ideally I would like to make myself a competitive candidate for future roles once I meet that 2-3 experience mark common on a lot of job descriptions.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Early career software engineer looking for advice on how to prep myself as much as possible for the next stages of my career.

For context I’ve been at my current company doing full stack web dev (React/TypeScript/Go/MongoDB mostly) for a little over 1.5 years and actually got promoted last month to Software Engineer 2. My experience has been great thus far, however the two senior people (who also served as my managers) on my team have just left and as a result I expect there not to be as much mentorship/room for growth in my current role. This has left me feeling anxious with the feeling of needing to pick up more responsibility for the sake of my team who are all also around the same level of experience as me.

I also recently went through an interview process for another Software Engineer role at a different company after casually applying to a few jobs to test the waters, but didn’t get chosen over another candidate with more YoE than me.

With all this in mind I’m wondering how I can best prepare myself to succeed in my current role for the time being and eventually find a better one in the future. Some initial things I’ve done were to start reviewing leetcode again and as well as system design in my free time. I obviously don’t plan on quitting my current job without another offer at hand, and I’m very grateful that I have a job in the first place with all the uncertainty going on in this field. Ideally I would like to make myself a competitive candidate for future roles once I meet that 2-3 experience mark common on a lot of job descriptions.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!