> Does anyone know how, from our corner, filter out companies that will do crazy stuff like make you barf up 30 sort algorithms? There's no reliable way. You j

> Does anyone know how, from our corner, filter out companies that will do crazy stuff like make you barf up 30 sort algorithms? There's no reliable way. You just apply to some more jobs, and some of the companies will be the crazy kind, other's won't. > And more importantly for my case, does anyone know where to look for companies that are willing to work around a college student's schedule? Look for medium to large companies, those often have some things they want done, but aren't really urgent. I work for an ISP and IT outsourcing company, and we have low-priority projects like updating the internally used blog to a newer wordpress version, install some plugins to get some extra functionality, write a bit of customization code and themes. These are things where we're glad when we can offload them to a part-time developer, and we don't care up if they show up in the morning or in the afternoon. > The cards seem to be stacked against us in this one. Don't give up. If you can get some personal connections, finding a job won't be too hard. Go to some local meetups, like your local python/perl/ruby/java/.NET/whatever monthly gathering, and see if you can get talking to some folks. Going to meetups in your free time already puts you in the upper 10% in the perception of most people :-)