[avnigo]

> They want people who have done this in an enterprise setting.

This has been a question I've had too. How do you get to show you have experience in enterprise software/tech if you've not been given the chance to work in a setting that uses something like that before?

It's the chicken and egg problem. Companies are often more concerned with the candidate's experience in specific esoteric technologies for their sector, and will not hire anybody who doesn't fit that yet, instead of also hiring people who can definitely learn that tech pretty quickly based on their experience, or having shown they are experienced learners.

[the_only_law]

> This has been a question I've had too. How do you get to show you have experience in enterprise software/tech if you've not been given the chance to work in a setting that uses something like that before?

Personally, I believe the answer is right place right time, as disappointing as it may sound. A large amount of people I know working these sort of roles are there because Company X in the domain recruited them from University pipelines where they attended and that seems to be almost exclusively where the companies source “entry level” hires for these domains.

I still think it’s possible to get there from somewhere else, it just requires slightly different skill sets and a lot more work.