4.5L to 40L in 4 years.

Thanks @Micheal_Scott

No tier 2.5. But a government college. Anyways no one asked for college anywhere. Everyone asked experience.

But when starting out, you do need a degree in CS, right?

To be honest I did not used much resources explicitly for anything. It's scattered self learning. Mostly learnt by experience.

For FE preparation, most of the interviews focus on following:

1. Javascript fundamentals and advanced. I used javascript.info for this and lot's of practical hands-on.
2. React concepts deep dive. Initially I learnt from udemy. But advance concepts learnt from experience and patterns.dev + react documentation.
3. System design/machine coding. Design and code features. Here they give you a document of required features and UI and how to code that in optimised way. This I mastered from pure experience and lot's of self projects.
4. Some ask linear DSA as well. This is I never prepared for explicitly. I did a lot of competitive programming in my college days so well versed with concepts.

Also, I got the current role by demonstrating pure Javascript knowledge and building complex features by working part time for a startup for 6 months. And other things didn't mattered.

I believe that's a matter of opinion and opportunity. Personally, chatGPT and Claude are great tools to help developers 10x their productivity by providing solutions to repetitive logics.

But for complex solutions and architectural decisions genAI wasn't upto the mark. I can argue the pro's and con's and write an entire article on my experience with genAI. But the gist is, so far, it hasn't replaced but improved FE developers. You gotta know what to wite in prompt right? Anyone can make a website or an app with chatgpt easily. But to get scalable, maintainable, optimised code with proper dev tooling with minimal downtime is another story.

Thanks man!

Twice. From service company to product startup in 10months. Then worked there for 3.5 years. Then switch to even smaller startup in December last year.