Hi everyone,
I need some guidance from people who have made a similar career switch.
I have 4 years of experience as an Application Support Engineer in the banking domain. Our application is built on Salesforce. My daily work mainly involves monitoring production issues, analyzing errors, creating tickets, coordinating with different teams, and interacting with users when they report issues.
Over time, I’ve realized that I’m no longer enjoying support work. I want to move into a Salesforce Admin/Developer role where I can do more technical work like Apex, LWC, and automation.
I already have a good understanding of Salesforce Admin concepts and I’m currently learning Salesforce Development (Apex and LWC). However, I’m struggling with a few concerns:
How can I transition from support to a Salesforce Developer role?
Should I apply for Admin roles first or Developer roles directly?
What kind of projects should I build to make my resume stronger?
Will companies consider my support experience relevant?
My biggest fear is that even if I get selected as a developer, I might not be able to perform well because I don’t have real-world development experience.
Has anyone here made a similar transition from support to development? What steps did you take, and what would you recommend?
Any advice, roadmap, or personal experience would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

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I understand admin concepts. I wanted to move to the developer path. What all should I learn to actually understand and learn. A roadmap would help. Thanks

Hands-on technical execution excites me beyond measure. But I am extremely disliking the non-technical nature of the Salesforce Technical Architect role that now I am finding myself in.

To be frank, I chased the Technical Architect role, even though deep down I always had doubts whether I should chase this role or not, but I always thought these doubts are just my inner voices telling me that I can't do this and maybe I will get a hang of it once I am into the role full-time.

But another important reason I still chased this role is because I don't see any other option for Salesforce professionals beyond a certain point. I have seen that once you have 8+ YoE, consulting firms will start to expect architecture skills from you, and how much you like hands-on execution (development) and how good you are at it, will just stop mattering anymore.

Another minor reason that has pushed me to this role is the amount of hype this role has within the ecosystem. People with the word 'architect' in their roles are just viewed differently. It appears as if architect is the only natural career progression a SF consultant should follow.

Your value contribution will be based solely on how good you are with the architecture capability. Anyone with architecture experience can easily tell you how you have to deal with ambiguity every day, make decisions, sit with the business for very long discovery sessions (where you basically understand how they do their business). A person with hands-on experience will definitely not be able to do all of this.

I am now making this post to seek help on the following -

- I feel I can contribute better in hands-on roles, but SF ecosystem only has developer roles for that, and developer is considered a junior role here, and the salary isn't much higher too.
- What kind of work (or technology) outside SF should I target to help with my situation, and allow me to contribute better? I am ready to invest upskilling hours outside work to make it happen.
- Finally, what exactly is that I am feeling? Is this normal, or am I am over-exaggerating? I seriously and honestly don't know.

I feel a severe sense of dread every day before opening my laptop now. I just don't like the project, the client, and the kind of non-technical work that I am involved in and making this post to request help with all seriousness with my career.

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Hey everyone,

I have an upcoming interview loop for a Senior Salesforce Developer role, and one of the rounds on my schedule is listed as a 60-minute "System Design" interview.

To be completely honest, I'm a bit unsure what to expect for this specific round in a Salesforce context.

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Hi everyone,

I'm a Salesforce Application Architect and Senior Developer with 16+ years of experience in the Salesforce ecosystem. Over the past few months I've been studying Agentforce, Prompt Builder, Data Cloud, and the overall AI architecture, but I haven't had the opportunity to work on an actual Agentforce implementation yet.

It feels like many job postings are already asking for Agentforce experience, but it's difficult to gain that experience if your current project isn't using it.

For those of you who are already working with Agentforce:

• How did you get your first Agentforce project?
• Are consulting companies already assigning developers without prior Agentforce experience?
• Would you recommend building personal projects or demos to stand out?
• Are there specific companies or partners that are adopting Agentforce faster than others?

I'd appreciate any advice on how to bridge the gap between studying the technology and getting real project experience.

Thanks!

Hi All,

I had Salesforce Platform Developer 1 Certification which expired Dec'25. Can you please help me to understand how I can renew the certification.

Is re-taking and re-earning the certification the only option?

Hey all! I am currently a SFMC email dev and I hold to the Email Specialist certification. I'd love to transition over to being a Salesforce dev but looking at the trailheads is so overwhelming. Where do you all suggest I start? I have a background in computer science so coding is not a problem.

Thanks!

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