Career Change to Programming: How a complete beginner with no experience became a Software Development Engineer at Verizon

I have heard that it is not easy to find a job in the United States, I did not expect that only their own experience to know how difficult it is, I was undergraduate to the United States, the beginning of the choice of Accounting is also the parents' intention, because in the domestic side of the relatives have to do this industry, and the development of a very good, so my parents want to let me go to study in the United States to further study, back to China after the employment is more advantageous.

But I don't like Accounting, and I don't like Accounting even more after I came to the U.S. Just after I started to study in the U.S., I realized that the employment rate of Accounting in the U.S. is very low, and the positions are especially few, and it is even more voluminous than the domestic one!

So I started my road to code conversion, which means that in the undergraduate years, I not only have to study the knowledge of the major, but also spend a lot of time to learn CS, fortunately I learned a professional course called VBA (is the built-in programming language of Microsoft Office software, can be used to deal with the data), so my road to code conversion is not so difficult.

In fact, at the beginning, I also once thought that as long as I rely on my own can be successful in code switching, but in fact, the reality gave me a hard blow, self-study can not withstand the learning of someone to take, maybe I am still a student thinking it, used to the teacher with the feeling of the class, self-study is always static, and I don't know what to do.

So I came to Drill Insight, I also did a lot of homework, those many famous job hunting organizations to turn over the rotten, but in the end I chose this one, because it gives me a very comfortable feeling, but also offline classes, perfectly suited to my kind of need for a teacher to take the class of the people, I am suitable for the teacher to learn under the eyes of a kind of one-on-one feeling, encounter will not be able to I can also ask directly, there are I'm very satisfied with this point.

I really have a headache to learn English, although I learn English, and I think my English level is not bad, but here I really feel the gap, it is really different from the Americans, I was really afraid to open my mouth to speak, and I think I will be laughed at by everyone when I open my mouth, but fortunately there are teachers who have been leading to say that you do not say that you don't want to leave the feeling of here, so I have slowly overcome it.

To be honest, when I came here I was full of doubts about myself, I didn't think drillinsight would take me because I was a code changer and hadn't touched any projects in school and could only write in the simplest language, but who would have thought that in the end I would actually get an offer from verizon after 3 months of study, I was surprised myself.

When I was doing the strategy, I knew about the TCS program, and when I first contacted it, I knew it was really good, because I didn't understand it, and I was holding a kind of state of being fooled for sure, and I wanted to come to experience how awesome it was, and the result was really quite different, because I participated in the whole project myself, and I could answer the tough questions asked by the interviewer during the interview and communicated with him so smoothly, whether it was asking about the project or the technology stack. Whether it's a question about the project or the technology stack, the answer is very smooth, you dare to believe that before 3 months I was a white and I can not use English to communicate people.

Thank you for your 3 months of hard work, luckily I persevered and didn't give up, even if it was hard I got my reward, looking back I am still very surprised that I got the offer through my own efforts, after a short break I will start to enter the working mode! I'm looking forward to my first job!