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I do not agree with sending out less applications improving your odds. The author said that she sent out 10 applications over several months. I was in a diffe

I do not agree with sending out less applications improving your odds. The author said that she sent out 10 applications over several months. I was in a different position than the author being a cs undergrad student, but i was sending out 10 apps a day during my final semester. For the companies that reached out for an interview, i read their glassdoor reviews for interview styles. I ussually spent 30 minutes at most on their website to learn a little about the company. Once offers started coming in is when i really tried to evaluate if the company was somewhere i wanted to work. The whole process took around a month (from sending out apps to accepting an offer)

brudgers 9y ago
The difference between your situations is probably meaningful because industry perceives CS students and self-taught web developers differently when it comes to entry level jobs. For example entry level jobs at places with Glass Door reviews are far more open to the CS student than a self taught web developer. A self taught web developer is more likely to land an opportunity in a local web-shop than at a big company or a startup. For the self taught web developer, applying for a first entry level job at Google or Apple or Uber or Github is a waste of time. CS students tend to get a pass when it comes to the problem of finding great developers. [1] Self taught web developers tend not to. [1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-developers-2/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-deve...