Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
by cpprototypes on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:43PM
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How did you convince them to hire you when you had no professional experience? Did you have to take a pay cut to do it?
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I didn't get hired for the job, after the first interview I bowed out. I ended up in another mostly Java position (although we've also started doing some Obj-C).
I had 4+ years of working on a reasonably sized and complicated Java application. In addition, a few years before I used Python for personal projects so I could show some experience.
But it turned out the position was largely for front end development, and not some of the more back-end stuff I'm interested in. I think they liked me (don't know how I compared to other candidates) but I thanked them for their time and told them the position wouldn't be a fit for me.
If your code in that language is good enough then you can usually get a job for it. Of course, I'm talking about places where programmer/HR department have a big overlap. I don't much like working for the other places.