I have an insatiable drive to help junior developers push their limits and find true fulfillment in software engineering. I'm very critical of victimhood and have little interest in neutering my opinions for the PC crowd in tech. If you're willing to take ownership of your future, I'm here to help.
Yep, pretty much. Most posts I read are “I have sent over 500 applications”. You can also guarantee none of those were even tailored to to that specific job either. I’ve started networking a lot to try get my foot in the door whilst sending tailored applications. The one thing I am struggling with though is finding projects I like that would wow an employer.. I’m a huge sports fan but i struggle finding free or cheap APIs to track things like a fantasy football team, or players stats etc..
Yeah, most of those posters are just resume spammers. It makes you feel like you're making progress for the week when you bump that number up, when in reality, you're just wasting time that could have been spent towards making meaningful progress.
19:27 "You should be applying for positions that are in the same industry as the problems that you solve in your personal projects" Thank you for the reminder.
This is how i became a software engineer: i read about 60 books about everything: windows os programing, com dcom, windows drivers, linix programming, databases, directx, samba, low level network protocols, i wrote assembler code, while taking csc courses. I spent weekends programming and expolring what i learned. I understand so well how everything works at low level that you can give me any modern framework, library or a labguage and i can figure it out in a week. Taking 6 month of bootcamp will not help you. 20 uears ago there was no google and youtube so i read books.
i hate this. i’m not asking to write a react todo app and get a 100k job. i’m asking for any shot at a future that doesn’t involve me working until i die, never being able to own a house, being paycheck to paycheck with no escape. I literally have years of experience. I have a portfolio. I can talk about what I’ve done. This industry is broken. There is no reason to hire juniors for their value proposition, when they’ll take a year to really get decent and then just leave in another year because that’s the only way to move up. don’t even get me started on interviewing. I’ve worked with recruiters every day for years, applied to every company i like, tailored my resume and cover letter, send cold emails to all of them, cold Linkedin messages. And now I’m fucked because all of this has taken so much time that I have a significant gap in my resume. It is actually just impossible unless you have a network and demonstrated seniority. Is this really a junior friendly community where we help uplevel newer devs? It looks more like we’re being shamed here.
A hight potential programmer won't need a bootcamp. For some it's a good spring board if they are already high potential. Anyone just looking for a job is wasting time and money.
The ecosystem is bad AND the language is bad. It is the only language that can build the whole stack because you don't have a dam choice. You can't build a webpage in pascal.
Ask them to center a div though ;). I agree that being a problem solver is important! But not all problems require an engineering mindset. In some cases, engineers are a bad fit for some problems where things cannot be calculated.
As much as I hate to agree, he is right that some new grads really are a liability and haven't spent enough time learning to program, but instead learnt to memorize which absolutely won't cut it in a professional team.
You guys worrying about new guys using chat gpt is like old science professors worrying about new grads using calculators. AI will be everywhere and it will do everything. If they pass their exams and can write w/e code they need to graduate with chat gpt, they will go to work with chat gpt. Maybe for the next handful of years people who know theory and common practices can help guide AI, but it won't be long and "programmer" will be akin to "milk man". Just a job that used to exist and nobody will really understand why.
Reading over your comments, sadly it seems like the developers market is really just filled with bums and I'm not trying to be mean. Like mofos in the 70s learning comp sci with no internet, no stack over flow or whatever would be laughing at all of us.
I think these devs that are learning React before javascript are totally right. They are making more money and wasting less time. Will you learn assembly before C#? Of course not, it was abstracted for you to use it and be more productive.
Here's the thing I'm really a cloud and back end dev for 25 years in the Microsoft stacks ... I also do Maui and desktop... What I want to say is lots of companies want full stack devs these days unfortunately a lot of the time that's front end devs who don't understand backend tapology and patterns so we end up with a lot of none scalable systems or insecure systems out their.... Just MHO
Bro you can't even imagine, here in Las Vegas the incompetence level is off the charts everywhere. It's like all the college graduates never went to school or something.
The degree this is not required, whats more importent, is having real skills, get building software every spare minute you have. Learn patterns and practises , learn deployment , learn ood , learn learn learn by doing thats the big thing .... And have real software to show - websites , Web applications, git hub public repos etc a degree means nothing with out the demonstratable work.
Companies are becoming more toxic everyday and do not care about individuals or society. Things are only going to get worse and looking for a job must be the last thing on anyone's mind. Is time to just learn and skill and just start working with clients. Jobs are done.
I would also agree. I recently watched a short doc about employee replaceability. This is widespread across all industries and most apparent in tech or office jobs. Employers do not care, job security is becoming more obsolete over time. The only job security is investment in yourself!
From my experience of being in bootcamp and then subsequently getting hired as a software engineer, 90% of the work comes after the BootCamp. A BootCamp teaches you how to use a brush and its up to you to learn to paint. That might be hard to believe due to all the marketing bootcamps put out, but there is just way to much to learn to fit into a 3 month period.
I feel like if you don’t have a degree and your complaining because people who do have a degree are getting a job over you than that’s a pill you need to swallow
