Re:Ask HN: What advice would you give for “breaking into” to...
by nostrademons on Sunday July 23, 2017 @03:30PM
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Get the relevant experience via working on open-source stuff.
That doesn't mean a ridiculously over-engineered side project with distributed micro-services, BTW. Most of the top-tier companies don't actually fall for the bullshit that makes up most of the tech industry hype cycle.
It could mean investigating an interesting data-science problem with publicly-available data, building a model with some predictive validity, and publishing your findings & code via blog & GitHub. Or it could mean building a side-project for some local organization of importance to you, but really going the extra mile on user-experience so it's not just a CRUD screen, and you collect data in unobtrusive ways that don't bother the user. Or it could mean working on a hobby programming language and delivering a working compiler.
That doesn't mean a ridiculously over-engineered side project with distributed micro-services, BTW. Most of the top-tier companies don't actually fall for the bullshit that makes up most of the tech industry hype cycle.
It could mean investigating an interesting data-science problem with publicly-available data, building a model with some predictive validity, and publishing your findings & code via blog & GitHub. Or it could mean building a side-project for some local organization of importance to you, but really going the extra mile on user-experience so it's not just a CRUD screen, and you collect data in unobtrusive ways that don't bother the user. Or it could mean working on a hobby programming language and delivering a working compiler.