Greetings,
I have 4 years of experience as a software engineer at Microsoft, and then 1 year of experience as a software engineering consultant. The hours of consulting are not working for me, i.e. 19 hour days on a salary without any real deadlines, just teammates overseas. I need to find a new role.
As everyone knows, the market is cooked for software engineering, and I'm not cutting the mustard when it comes to interviews. I've been landing interviews but being rejected even after solving the coding challenge, optimizing, answering questions, and then being rejected without feedback. Maybe it was a culture fit thing, either way, the interviews aren't landing offers.
So my question is, are there careers I could pivot to that are hiring more aggressively right now than tech? I've considered actuarial roles but I need to brush up on my stats before going for the exams. Finance/quant sounds interesting too and I would still need to study up there but I'm not sure how to land an interview in a new industry with all of my resume experience being in tech.
tl;dr what else can I do with my bachelors in applied math besides work in tech? How do I land an interview in that new field with a tech background?