The part about focusing on pixel perfect UI hit so close to home for me. Throughout every project, I’ve enjoyed messing with CSS the most. But from a professional development standpoint I always felt like I was wasting my time if I wasn’t speeding through the styling to get to coding more of the API backend stuff.. it’s great to hear that this is something I can spend more time focusing on because other devs might not enjoy it as much 😂. I’ll reach out to brainstorm this a bit more with you Phil if you’re down. Fire vid as always!
@@jdeebsdev gotta pick up the “grunt work” to get your foot in the door. and css and styling is so important. People off the streets only look at style anyway. off the street meaning no programming knowledge
I think one mistake that I made in trying to get my first junior dev job was focusing on 100% getting better projects on my portfolio and not focus on learning what all the code does. I feel like it should be 75% project base and 25% technical base post bootcamp. I only say this because you are not going to get noticed from just having simple apps on your website(todoapp, weather api app, etc.) So its best to focus on a kick ass website with great/unique project to stand out but also focus on those algorithms and data structure problems/questions if asked. Ever since 2021 I was never given a coding problem in an interview since. Just technique interviews and code project. So maybe focus on getting good at reading code and technical problems and focus on leetcode stuff if need be, but depends on the company so very inconsistent of course.
