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If college is extremely cheap, you should at least try to go to the ones you can get into, because sometimes it is good to have "any degree" for immigration/res

If college is extremely cheap, you should at least try to go to the ones you can get into, because sometimes it is good to have "any degree" for immigration/resume screening purposes. If your goal is to find work as a programmer, putting 3 years of literally any experience on your resume and passing some kind of technical interview is all you need to get a job in the current industry. Good luck! Source: I am a US citizen, I have a non-technical degree, I have 8 years of """"professional"""" experience, and I passed a few technical interviews ranging from leetcode problems to portfolio review to random questions about SDLC

nerdwolf 7y ago
Hey! Thanks for taking your time to reply. I agree with you, getting a degree would probably ease up immigration among other important processes. I didn't think about this previously. >...putting 3 years of literally any experience on your resume and passing some kind of technical interview is all you need to get a job in the current industry. This makes me rather hopeful. Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, how did you transition in to a technical career and how were opportunities in the beginning when you didn't have much experience? Thanks again! I appreciate your response.
- quaquaqua1 7y ago
  No problem my pleasure :) I worked in sales for 5 years selling hard drives and etc to businesses. It was the only job I could land, and the pay was decent, but I knew that I wanted to be a developer because I enjoyed that work more, and obviously it's way more secure and pays more than most sales jobs! I was having trouble even getting interviews, let alone passing them, due to a lack of experience on the resume and a lack of serious focus on logical reasoning skills for solving algorithmic problems. This kind of stuff absolutely does not come naturally, even if you have a computer science degree and lots of achievements to put on your resume. To pass most interviews these days, I learned that you absolutely, 100%, most inflate the crap out of your resume with really fancy sounding words and responsibilities and achievements. Be realistic, but don't hold back. Then, you must send your resume out to 200 jobs sorted by most recent post, and after that you'll get like 5 phone calls. After that, you put on your most positive and outgoing personality to talk about your passions and work and motvations. Then you hope that you catch 3 or 4 technical questions in a row that you have seen before in some shape or form ;). Apply to literally every job title that sounds tangentially technical. Software Developer, Fullstack, Front End, Technical Architect, Business Analyst, Consultant, anything. The development job I landed was marketed as a Business Analyst position and the interview was probably a lot easier than other people face at the same company. On day one I was told I would be doing node and react XD Good luck and have fun with the process ;)
  - nerdwolf 7y ago
    Thanks a lot for writing this. It really gives me a lot of hope for the future going forward. I'll keep this in mind! Going by your experience, it looks like persistent efforts are key to breaking in the industry. I'll just keep going on & hopefully things will pan out okay. Thanks again for replying!
  - beckingz 7y ago
    Business Analyst position writing node and react?????

nerdwolf 7y ago

Hey! Thanks for taking your time to reply. I agree with you, getting a degree would probably ease up immigration among other important processes. I didn't think about this previously. >...putting 3 years of literally any experience on your resume and passing some kind of technical interview is all you need to get a job in the current industry. This makes me rather hopeful. Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, how did you transition in to a technical career and how were opportunities in the beginning when you didn't have much experience? Thanks again! I appreciate your response.

quaquaqua1 7y ago
No problem my pleasure :) I worked in sales for 5 years selling hard drives and etc to businesses. It was the only job I could land, and the pay was decent, but I knew that I wanted to be a developer because I enjoyed that work more, and obviously it's way more secure and pays more than most sales jobs! I was having trouble even getting interviews, let alone passing them, due to a lack of experience on the resume and a lack of serious focus on logical reasoning skills for solving algorithmic problems. This kind of stuff absolutely does not come naturally, even if you have a computer science degree and lots of achievements to put on your resume. To pass most interviews these days, I learned that you absolutely, 100%, most inflate the crap out of your resume with really fancy sounding words and responsibilities and achievements. Be realistic, but don't hold back. Then, you must send your resume out to 200 jobs sorted by most recent post, and after that you'll get like 5 phone calls. After that, you put on your most positive and outgoing personality to talk about your passions and work and motvations. Then you hope that you catch 3 or 4 technical questions in a row that you have seen before in some shape or form ;). Apply to literally every job title that sounds tangentially technical. Software Developer, Fullstack, Front End, Technical Architect, Business Analyst, Consultant, anything. The development job I landed was marketed as a Business Analyst position and the interview was probably a lot easier than other people face at the same company. On day one I was told I would be doing node and react XD Good luck and have fun with the process ;)
- nerdwolf 7y ago
  Thanks a lot for writing this. It really gives me a lot of hope for the future going forward. I'll keep this in mind! Going by your experience, it looks like persistent efforts are key to breaking in the industry. I'll just keep going on & hopefully things will pan out okay. Thanks again for replying!
- beckingz 7y ago
  Business Analyst position writing node and react?????