Re:Ask HN: What should I have accomplished before graduating...
by jackgolding on Saturday February 21, 2015 @09:45PM
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Have fun and travel.
By having a part time job in .Net you are already so far ahead of at least most of the people who were in my graduating cohort. If coding is fun for you then you can do that, if its not as fun as going to parties or traveling, do that instead. Unfortunately, unless you work absolutely stupidly hard, you will end up at the same type of companies regardless of how much work you put into your resume.
Contributing to Open Source and having a top notch github/stack overflow profile are so overrated. It is really annoying that some companies keep asking for them. In the real world every single piece of code you write is kept under lock and key, and i'm sure thats going to be the case at the places you are applying for.
By having a part time job in .Net you are already so far ahead of at least most of the people who were in my graduating cohort. If coding is fun for you then you can do that, if its not as fun as going to parties or traveling, do that instead. Unfortunately, unless you work absolutely stupidly hard, you will end up at the same type of companies regardless of how much work you put into your resume.
Contributing to Open Source and having a top notch github/stack overflow profile are so overrated. It is really annoying that some companies keep asking for them. In the real world every single piece of code you write is kept under lock and key, and i'm sure thats going to be the case at the places you are applying for.