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Early disappointment (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

So it really is like that eh?
Do you have any tips for what could help me, even a little bit, to have better chances?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Build an open source portfolio. Being able to show employers what I was capable of was a massive benefit both then and now. You can say you know all of these things, but when you're looking at hundreds of applications one of the first things they do to reduce the pile is filter out people who don't have some kind of online presence like Github. This allows them to see that you're actively engaged with the field and if they want to interview you, to look at your code quality and experience.

    A personal website that highlights your best work is also a good idea, as it helps to even further distill down the things you're ultimately going to end up talking about in an interview. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, just something that shows your competent. I wouldn't expect the person interviewing you to actually hit view source and criticize your choice in frontend framework.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Without any prior professional experience, is an extensive open-source/[other non-professional software development related experience] portfolio perceived as more valuable than a degree to employers?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That entirely depends on the employer, but in my anecdotal experience that has been the case. Especially in more recent years versus the start of my career (nearly 20 years ago).

    The reality is that Computer Science is useful for building strong engineers over the long-term, but it doesn't at all prepare you for the reality of working in a team environment and contributing code to a living project. They don't even teach you git as far as I'm aware.

    Contributing to open source demonstrates a lot of the real-world skills that are required in a workplace, beyond just having the comprehension and skill in the language/tool of choice you're interviewing for.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?

    In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
    I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.

    A personal website that highlights your best work

    That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just a heads up, you replied multiple times to this. If the client you're using doesn't submit immediately, that just means it's not doing error handling properly and not disabling submit buttons while the request is in flight. You've actually submitted once for each time you pressed the button

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Omg haha, sorry about that! I believe the server was having problems just at that moment, since I couldn't access lemmy.world anymore, I guess they ended up being sent through after the outage (was I the only one experiencing it?)

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    Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?

    In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
    I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.

    A personal website that highlights your best work

    That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?

    In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
    I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.

    A personal website that highlights your best work

    That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?

    In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
    I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.

    A personal website that highlights your best work

    That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!

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