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I am entirely self taught. I have a degree in History but didn't do any programming in college courses. Everything I learned I learned from a non-structured so
by quaquaqua1 7y ago
I am entirely self taught. I have a degree in History but didn't do any programming in college courses.
Everything I learned I learned from a non-structured source.
I talked my way into my first technical job, then talked my way into my next, and so on. Many people denied me during coding test or on resume screens.
But for the few employers who didn't, I thank them for taking a chance on me and it seems they're keeping me around because I deliver valuable code to end-users.
- mjfisher 7y agoDid anyone tell you why you failed the coding test stages? I'm putting together a best practice checklist for coding tests, and I wondered if you'd noticed any common themes.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoIt's probably not very helpful but certain problems are just too hard for me or I've never seen them before :) I don't have a deep background in data structures and algorithms, so most of the jobs I get are more like for very small companies that just want a guy to stand a bunch of libraries on top of each other and make a cool crud app with a "modern" interface. It's a very different experience from an org with 100 or more engineers. Good luck on your project!