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There is a huge pipeline of paid internships available... These are literally hiring pipelines. Sure, it's not easy to land an internship, but paid internships

• Invictus0 5y ago
  The gatekeeper for these jobs is almost always not an engineer--it's a 40k/yr HR person with a psychology degree that does 3 things: count how many yoe you have, control-f to see if the skills in your resume match the requisition, and check to make sure you went to a prestige university. And I don't even blame them, because the entry level positions are swamped with hundreds if not thousands of applications, most of which are abysmal. I've applied to dozens of positions so far, and although I can pass a code test easily, the real trouble is just getting them to offer it to me. And as for internships, they typically require that the applicant be pursuing a degree in computer science; not much help for someone 2 years out from graduation.
  • jopsen 5y ago
    Yeah, getting a foot in the door is probably hard. (Not impossible, just hard) I just mean: there actually are lots of pipelines like paid internships. That doesn't mean people aren't lost. I've experienced companies blinding their hiring pipeline to things like name, gender, age, university, etc. because biases causes you to loose out on valuable talent. Yes, I'm sure it still hard, and many companies don't try to avoid biases. But software is a lot less conservative than other industries :)