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I'd love to know which type of company is willing to hire someone so young. I know someone around your age that's competent (for his age) but is finding it diff

I'd love to know which type of company is willing to hire someone so young. I know someone around your age that's competent (for his age) but is finding it difficult to find anyone to take him seriously. I've suggested to him to build up his portfolio and github profile, but that takes time.

kaolinite 15y ago
The firm I started at was tiny, just me and 2 other guys. I found a list of website development companies in my local area and sent emails to all of them, asking if they were taking anyone on. Only got a reply back from one of them, went to the interview and completed their little test quickly so they took me on. I was paid very little for my efforts, mind, but without that job I don't think I would have gotten my current one (where I'm working alongside university graduates for a decent salary). I think something that definitely worked in my favour is that I brought along my laptop and showed them a design of a website I had been working on.