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Its a candidate's markets. A few companies can afford to only hire top notch candidates. You've heard of them, and that's why. If you only try to apply for plac
by shados 10y ago
Its a candidate's markets. A few companies can afford to only hire top notch candidates. You've heard of them, and that's why. If you only try to apply for places you've heard of as being the best of the best, well, it will be harder because everyone is doing the same.
There's hundreds, thousands of companies who aren't the best, and aren't looking for the best either. Work there, get your experience up, jump around every few years (so you can eventually get a feel as to WHY those companies aren't the best), and you'll be good enough to go anywhere you want.
Or you can try to play the SV game, learn the 30 sort algorithms and learn how to speak "Big SaaS Company" speak right after college and skip that.
I personally wasn't good enough for that out of college, so I did it the hard way, and now I'm where I wanted to be all along. It took 10 years, but ::shrugs::, I made it.
- gravypod 10y agoHow do you get a list of the names we haven't head of?
- perlgeek 10y agoYou go to a job market website, search for software developer jobs, and discard all the names you've heard of.
- AtheistOfFail 10y agoTrue story... I've seen a lot of small places that are so desperate because noone wants to work for an insurance company or some other industry that needs software but isn't a "software industry"
- coredog64 10y agoIf it's not the software industry, then you're working in a cost center, not a profit center. That's not a fun position to be in.
- AtheistOfFail 10y agoyes. But for a first job, it's better than being unemployment.
- flukus 10y agoA lot of the time they are desperate because the code is so bad they can't get anyone with half a brain willing to put up with it. And they don't have the corporate culture willing to fix it.
- shados 10y agoMakes friends. Build a network. Ask your friends. Teachers work too.
- epmatsw 10y agoHired.com, AngelList, talk to a recruiter. If you've got a CS degree from a decent school, it won't take long to get interviews.