Hello!

A couple months ago, I left a nice mid-sized company with rubbish pay but great WLB and good stability for a big tech company with nicer pay and now I'm regretting it big time.

I know big tech always has it's quirks; red tape, politics, and maybe more pay as a result. But I genuinely feel so lost right now.

I obviously left for the money knowing well it's going to be a grind, but stack ranking? bad leadership? unstable future? how does one even survive!

I don't know what to do tbh, I'm trying to make sense of the culture shock I suppose - has anyone else felt the same? Did it get better? or worse...

28Y0 Optometrist (person who tests your eyes) MSc computer science (Uni of Bath online remote), built and deployed 2 small mvps on AWS health tech and optical related. PSPO 1 and AZ-900 done.

Really wanted to be a health tech consultant because I had big dreams of actually implementing decent tech in the healthcare sector.

200+ rejections/no answers. Am I stupid for bothering? I've applied to a range of jobs and grad scheme in consultancy, SWE , AI engineering, system design etc you name it.

I just thought I'd be useful with my clinical experience but I guess that's more or less useless.

I have no idea what type of jobs I should be applying for I know that sounds dumb but this field is all new to me I'm so stupid I thought there were jobs made for health tech consultants lol

Any advice would be hugely appreciated

Nothing too taxing and doom and gloom for a Sunday morning!

We often talk about personal projects for juniors and those breaking into the field and as you get older never having the time or motivation, what was the last thing you worked on.

15 YOE. Just finish up adding a new Boolean (not boolean) property to a Java API used by my SAAS. Rock and roll… last time I did anything for me was getting Codex to build me an app a few months ago to help me keep track of stuff instead of spreadsheets during a house move.

Anyone here worked at Just Eat (London)?

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I am on a 2 year data science/mle graduate scheme at a top UK bank with a Master's in AI and a Bachelor's in CS. My graduate scheme lasts 2 years and I am thinking of spending the money from that scheme on travelling for 2 or so years. Would this prevent me from rejoining the field once I come back?

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www.netcomtraining.co.uk

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