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> No one wants to train junior devs. Many dev shops want junior devs, and that's a great place to get experience if you get placed on-site with a good client.

> No one wants to train junior devs. Many dev shops want junior devs, and that's a great place to get experience if you get placed on-site with a good client. Also cash cow businesses where tech isn't their core competency (media, fashion, pharma, etc.) will hire junior devs. Basically if you're spending all your time trying to get hired by a startup or by FAAMG then you're going to have a bad time, but if you focus on the types of companies that actually hire junior devs then you shouldn't have too much trouble at least getting interviews. It's obviously still very difficult because you're pretty much useless, but if you're at least willing to put in the time to do the hiring homework assignments then you'll get taken seriously as a candidate.

opportune 9y ago
That's weird, in my experience FAAMG (maybe less so Apple) hire junior devs by the truckload. However, I don't think they are typically in the business of hiring bootcamp graduates; it's mostly new grads or people transitioning from a similarly technical job/advanced degree in e.g. physics or math.
jlaurend 9y ago
It's pretty interesting -- as a startup founder leading a dev team of ~10 people now, I've hired almost all junior level candidates. We never had a posting for "Junior Software Engineer" though. We just had one posting and considered everyone who applied separately and within the context of their experience.