New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Switching from Java Back end dev to systems programming dev?
Ask HN: Switching from Java Back end dev to systems programming dev?
10 by 3a2d29 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Hello all, Curious how hard it is to move from a generic web backend engineering job to a systems programming job. I am currently a junior with 1.5 YOE. I took a few cs classes in C++ and have messed around on GitHub with C and Rust. I enjoyed the extra challenge of memory management and thinking more of performance / memory safety. While I want to try and program an emulator or some sort of systems project (recommendations welcome / textbooks to read welcome) before I definitely decide to move into that area, I was curious how hard it is. I’m sure companies aren’t thrilled to hire juniors with no systems or embedded experience. Would it be better to move to a company with low-level programming teams as a Java dev and then transfer to those teams? (Current employer does basically no low level work anywhere on any team)
10 by 3a2d29 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Hello all, Curious how hard it is to move from a generic web backend engineering job to a systems programming job. I am currently a junior with 1.5 YOE. I took a few cs classes in C++ and have messed around on GitHub with C and Rust. I enjoyed the extra challenge of memory management and thinking more of performance / memory safety. While I want to try and program an emulator or some sort of systems project (recommendations welcome / textbooks to read welcome) before I definitely decide to move into that area, I was curious how hard it is. I’m sure companies aren’t thrilled to hire juniors with no systems or embedded experience. Would it be better to move to a company with low-level programming teams as a Java dev and then transfer to those teams? (Current employer does basically no low level work anywhere on any team)
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