I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'd been a sysadmin for quite a while and moved into hardware repair, though I'd always been a hobbyist programmer. When I lost my job doing that, I applied for a developer role I saw advertised somewhere because - well, because there weren't a lot of opportunities around at the time. This was over a decade ago.
I didn't get the job because of lack of experience. However, a week or two later, the company phoned me up and said they'd made a new position available because it would be good to have a programmer who could also do sysadmin stuff (what we would nowadays advertise as devops, I guess). They turned out to be a really good employer.
What I guess I can say from this experience is that sometimes - just sometimes - when a company says "no thanks but we'll keep your application in mind", well, sometimes they're telling the truth.
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I'd been a sysadmin for quite a while and moved into hardware repair, though I'd always been a hobbyist programmer. When I lost my job doing that, I applied for a developer role I saw advertised somewhere because - well, because there weren't a lot of opportunities around at the time. This was over a decade ago.
I didn't get the job because of lack of experience. However, a week or two later, the company phoned me up and said they'd made a new position available because it would be good to have a programmer who could also do sysadmin stuff (what we would nowadays advertise as devops, I guess). They turned out to be a really good employer.
What I guess I can say from this experience is that sometimes - just sometimes - when a company says "no thanks but we'll keep your application in mind", well, sometimes they're telling the truth.