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Oh, and forgot to say: I also don't think learning coding on the job is realistic. Learning a new framework or language if you already know other ones, sure. But learning to code at all, just to start? Probably not. Big companies are hyper-specialized and have many different types of coders, each of which can't do the others' jobs as effectively. They rarely have sufficient training or cross proficiency programs between them, much less for someone else in the company who doesn't code at all. Smaller companies will need you to wear many hats and use different skills to a lower (but still adequate) proficiency, but that's not the same as not knowing how to do any of it. What coworkers CAN offer is exposure. Like if you joined a company doing legal work but regularly working with product owners, project managers, UX designers, marketers, frontend, backend, devops, QA, SRE, etc., you can get a better feel for what each of those roles is like, and that can help inform what you might want to learn. |