Feeling Lost in My Career Transition - Any Guidance?
Hi everyone,
I’m currently going through a difficult phase in my career and could really use some guidance.
I have 6.4 years of experience, with 1.4 years in GenAI at Accenture, where I worked on prompt engineering, Python, and LangGraph-based solutions. However, much of my work involved using AI tools to generate code, so I now feel I lack deep technical understanding.
I recently joined a mid-sized product engineering company (1.5 months ago) hoping to learn more. But I’ve already attended 6–7 project interviews internally and haven’t been able to clear any. With a 2-month bench policy, I’m under a lot of pressure.
I’m realizing now that I focused more on meeting deadlines than truly understanding system design and architecture, and this gap is affecting me at a senior level.
On top of this, I have family responsibilities, a home loan, and upcoming relocation plans. The stress has been overwhelming, and I’ve even had panic attacks recently thinking about interviews.
I am trying to learn and improve, but I feel stuck and unsure how to move forward quickly.
If anyone has gone through something similar or can guide me on handling this transition phase
I would really appreciate your advice.
Thank you.
Not sure if I can help you career wise but to reduce stress and anxiety, having a cash buffer is very helpful.
Have 4 months of basic living expenses kept aside in cash. It gives so much mental peace knowing that even if you lose your job you'll be fine and your family will be fine.
You might not be able to do the relocation now.
The worst thing you can do for yourself now is dig yourself deeper into debt. Try to cut down expenses to bare minimum and pile up some cash
I think I can relate with you but at a shorter time span I am a 2021 grad in mechanical engineering totally unrelated to anything it or computer science, joined TCS right after stuck in a support project that too with a non tech role working on some ERP software. Joined a data science course because I wanted to get good understanding I tried a lot got a machine learning job after 4 years into TCS. Worked on some analytics and data science use cases in the new company still all the projects I worked on felt pretty ad-hoc.
I joined a gen ai project recently getting extremely overwhelmed as this field has moved towards being more of a software engineer type of role in recent times since the rise of llms. There is also a lot of cloud application as I have only mostly worked on analytics use cases. This is seriously triggering my imposter syndrome.
On top of this i also gave some interviews got a new job. I have resigned already but wondering if I will continue to face the same problem there as well.
Feeling overwhelmed
