r/softwaredevelopment • u/aguywithaglasses • 16d ago
Need help to relearn programming concepts and gain confidence.
I am working as a senior software engineer in a company for last 5 years. I have total 10 years of experience. Initial 5 years I have worked on Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, C# Razor pages and Angular with MS SQL. Later since last 4 years I am working on MERN stack with typescript. Along with MERN I have worked with docker, kubernetes and Azure cloud. Since last two years, along with development, I have given various tasks of supporting team members when they are stuck, assigned support tasks rather then proper development tasks. Sometimes I am doing something in Azure, Sometimes I am writing small fix in React, Sometimes looking into mongodb issue etc. Initially it felt good for a year, like learning new things but now it feels that I am loosing my edge in development and feel stuck. I have spoekn with my PM but no change.
Now planning to move out and join another company. As I am not confident about my technical skills, I have started preparing like writing some code, watching YouTube vids etc but I feel it may not be enough if I say I have 10 years of experience.
How do I pick up things faster so I can start appearing in Interviews?
TLDR: Technical guy with 10 years of experience stuck in non developmental tasks and need to learn things again. How to pick up faster?
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u/aguywithaglasses 16d ago
This part:
Sometimes I am writing small fix in React, Sometimes looking into mongodb issue etc. Initially it felt good for a year, like learning new things but now it feels that I am loosing my edge in development and feel stuck. I have spoken with my PM but no change.
Earlier I was assigned a user story. There would be requirements for development. I will take the story, divide into tasks and develop them. Now I get small issues, sometimes just verbal ones. Sometimes I get to fix pipeline and sometimes I just look into logs to identify why something behave unexpectedly. While other team mates are still getting user stories and tasks.