Ask HN: Finding a job for beginner programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Finding a job for beginner programmer? by ebbv on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:15PM (#7973233)

Don't expect your past inapplicable experience and eagerness to mean anything to potential employers. Everyone who applies has eagerness, or at least claims to, and since your experience isn't really applicable, it's fairly meaningless.

I'd strongly recommend actually doing programming. If you can have some semblance of a portfolio to show people that you CAN program, that will help.

Look for non-profits in your area that need help and do some work for them. Do a personal project on the weekends, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Finding a job for beginner programmer? by marktangotango on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:39AM (#7976562)

I'd add that telling a potential employer you're willing to learn or you'll learn whatever they teach you is next to meaningless as well. All the time a more senior developer spends teaching you or answering questions is time lost. We had a guy volunteer to work for free, but he was green, didn't even know the tools. That's too much 'on the job trainng' anyone here was willing to take on.

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Re:Ask HN: Finding a job for beginner programmer? by justizin on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @05:05PM (#7973509)

Infrastructure experience is most definitely relevant.

The OP might actually know what a packet is. ;)

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