Why Companies Aren't Hiring Entry Level Software Engineers 

"Junior" Job Posts today: Bachelor's in CS + 3-5 years experience in Java, Spring, and Scalable Architecture. 5 years experience in database management. 2 years as a rocket engineer.

Good points, but still no luck here. 4 internships where I delivered actual products with no hand-holding, and a Computer Programming AAS later and still no luck. My expectations are On-Site, 52k salary, Startup, and still no luck. I love this field, I do it for fun a lot of the time, but to feel like the time and money I spent on this is nullified is such a sucker-punch.

Excellent advice!!. Thank you so much!

This is the most informative video ive come across and has eased ny anxiety about switching careers. It all makes sense now. Thank you. New sub 🙌🏾

Hands down the best video on RU-vid about this topic. Informative, precise and to the point. Thank you my Brotha 👊🏾💯

Great video thanks!

Thanks for this! I’m not a software developer yet, but I’m learning html, css, and java script. So getting insight about pre interview is great!

New sub after this, TY🙂

When I was interviewing I looked for a git repository link on their resume. This would help me see the projects they were working on, how often do they commit, do they use detailed commit messages, and other things. The last two individuals I interviewed and hired were fresh out of college or self taught and both turned out to become exceptional software developers, exceptional. They required some mentoring which was fine, I didn't mind, and they learned things they don't teach in college. Great videos!

If your looking for first dev job I would also suggest looking into Professional Services, Customer and Support engineering jobs. They can spring board you into a dev job over time.

Thanks for sharing this video. I've also been getting those same messages. The 100% remote position as a junior is SUCH a good point!

Don't freelance! It's a race to the bottom, and you'll pick up bad habits! The companies who hire freelancers for cheap on upwork aren't large enterprises who think about how to properly run and integrate technology. There was a time when freelancing was lucrative and beneficial. It is not anymore.

Thanks for the info, I’m doing freelancing atm while I’m applying. I have yet to get a call back. I’m happy with any salary or pay, as long as I can improve myself as a dev. I didn’t know companies would prefer in office workers than remote. It doesn’t matter to me but I’m applying to other states besides my state. I’ll try to prioritize in office jobs. Thank you!

Also make sure that you build projects that use technologies that your region is hiring in. Being Australian, unfortunately popular great technologies which I like such as React, although in demand and I still do see listed in a lot of developer jobs appear a bit less common than personal unfavourable programming languages and frameworks such as wordpress, php, shopifiy, C#, .NET. Which seems to be more in demand than popular technology stacks like MERN which I believe is more popular in the U.S.A!

What editing software do you use if you don’t mind me asking, also mind doing a tutorial?

If it makes you feel any better, they're not hiring any Senior Software Engineers either

Meanwhile, me in Russia... - learned for 4-5 months - had a 15 minute interview - got the offer to work as a "senior" developer - fully remote, pay is pretty good for a junior dev... with some quirks - do tasks expected from at least a middle dev... - architecture and develop all the frontend by myself... can use basically anything I want as long as I achieve the assigned task. - did a lot of unconventional fun stuff (developing a non trivial highly interactive map, while integrating that (direct) js map library into a react project), learned actual reactive programming(using rxjs), architecture and structure patterns, technologies and skills, and also a bunch of geo related knowledge. - around 1 year passed since then - but, unexpectedly, I have a lot of free time to relax or learn. It was a challenge to figure out the structure and architecture of the project, I had a 2 week rewrite of the project at the start(2 months-in point), and a whole almost 2 months one fairly recently(10-12 months-in point). However when it's all done, and in between of them, I work only like 2-3 hours a day on average. - Also at this exact moment, I and one other developer are starting to write a new mobile app project in native android (kotlin jetpack compose), with probably another senior(actually senior, not like me) dev hire. I volunteered to work on it, btw. Why not. - Overall, I am happy with the job and will probably work there for a couple more years, as I still have stuff to learn there. (probably 1-2 years until I have no more things to learn there? idk)

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Wow. I’ve been trying to recreate myself given the current housing/finance industry. My 20-year career in residential construction financing became worthless. Invested a year in learning the basics. Looks like I’m back to being worthless. Wish I saw this a year ago.

"No remote positions" -- should disabled people give up then? (Honest question.) I would accept minimum wage instantly, I am only going for this position because I need a job I can work from home at the entry level, in-person roles are not an option at all. But I don't want to feel like I've wasted hundreds of hours on a skillset that cannot benefit me....

Interesting

No remote positions? What about PWDs, specifically orthopedic disabilities?

Does Data Engineer fall in this?

No matter how long you program, you will never feel good enough.

Deploy, deploy, deploy

One tip: Do not move to a city with no tech jobs. You will be doomed.

Everyone and their mama got into coding and even more people have been starting “coding bootcamp” for $6k learn to code in 6 months” .... supply and demand...the market is oversaturated and by tons

yikes

Exactly and that's what annoys me about these junior devs that can't find jobs and try and bring everyone down with them. They're either looking for remote only or they just know the classic 'MERN' stack or they don't want to get underpaid.. People need to realise if there is a shortage of positions in your field then you aren't in a position to demand anything, you will need to make sacrifices whether that be going into the office 5 days a week or learning a new backend technology or settling for a lower salary etc. It's like anything - if you're new to a field why would you expect to be on 6 figures within the first day? You need to work towards it and earn it.