Unfortunately, when it comes to online applications, there is never a reason given beyond "We appreciate your application but we have decided to go with a different applicant."
As for interviews, I did a few technical interviews last year and discovered my data structures and algorithms knowledge was a little weak. I did spend some time practicing leetcode questions to shore up my knowledge in that area.
This year, I haven't managed to make it past phone interviews where my lack of (specifically) work related technical experience was brought up every time. I was told several times that my work experience, educational background and hobby projects (like homelabbing) were impressive, but did not make up for the lack of previous software development experience.
I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...) and I've tried to emphasize these acomplishments on my resume. I was also recently promoted to global team lead, and I believe there will be some more oppertunities to work on technical problems so I will keep this in mind for the future!
> I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...)
Do you consider devops types of roles software development and something you'd do? Those tasks you describe sound like sys-adminy types of things. Maybe try applying to that type of position?
Another option is to just get same role you have now but in an organization that has people writing code as a major deliverable of the company. I'm assuming there aren't teams like this in your current organization.
Unfortunately, when it comes to online applications, there is never a reason given beyond "We appreciate your application but we have decided to go with a different applicant."
As for interviews, I did a few technical interviews last year and discovered my data structures and algorithms knowledge was a little weak. I did spend some time practicing leetcode questions to shore up my knowledge in that area.
This year, I haven't managed to make it past phone interviews where my lack of (specifically) work related technical experience was brought up every time. I was told several times that my work experience, educational background and hobby projects (like homelabbing) were impressive, but did not make up for the lack of previous software development experience.
I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...) and I've tried to emphasize these acomplishments on my resume. I was also recently promoted to global team lead, and I believe there will be some more oppertunities to work on technical problems so I will keep this in mind for the future!