Ask HN: Where do you look for work if you need experience?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you look for work if you need experience? by mattmanser on Sunday September 06, 2015 @12:35PM (#10178106)

By meetup I meant smaller ones like on meetup.com.

The meetup I was talking about only 7 of us were there. Sometimes it's 20, sometimes it's 5. Of which 2 mentioned their companies had open positions and the third gave another person at the meetup an interview (this is what I went to: http://www.meetup.com/NottinghamProgrammers/).

In Nottingham, a fairly small city, there's a different meetup every week aimed towards programmers/designers/web centric people, almost twice a week now. In SF there will be a different technical meetup twice or 3 times a day. They're social things as well as technical talks.

Also, I can practically 100% guarantee there will be a bunch of companies near you, right now, that need a junior programmer, within 30 miles of your town. They'll just be mainly Java or PHP jobs. If you want to be cutting edge, you know what you've got to do, move to SF.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you look for work if you need experience? by coroutines on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:57AM (#10180952)

Oh cool! -- I had seen meetup.com before but I hadn't used it myself. Thanks for giving me another space to look through :-))

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