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 hitsurume on Monday September 07, 2015 @12:40AM (#10180082)

Something you might have thought about is applying for QA (Quality Assurance) jobs for software / startup companies. I got my foot in the door as a QA Engineer and was able to learn many different things besides testing software that allowed me to move on to different roles, including Sys Admin positions.

With your current experience I think you would be able to get a QA job pretty easily and move around after you get a years of experience and move towards being a Dev afterwards if that's your goal.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you look for work if you need experience? by coroutines on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:50AM (#10180926)

I think part of the time I'm frustrated looking at QA positions that are largely dealing with customers vs QA testers who work more with developers. Still, a paycheck is a paycheck and I could probably use the experience either way.

Thanks for your input :-))

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