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Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by alonsonic »

franciscop wrote: post #21

My first freelancing job (previous jobs were internships) came from this project getting to the HN front page: https://umbrellajs.com/ It basically skyrocketed from there to what you can see in https://francisco.io/resume/ , with basically all experiences afterwards building on top of that (either directly, by reference or just as credentials for the next ones). People (including Google) also seem to love https://pic…

Really like your resume layout. What did you build it with? Is that an open-source layout? Would love to use it.

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by StavrosK »

the-dude wrote: post #28
neverminder wrote: post #8

I got my first job in a company that was desperate, because their only other developer was leaving in days. Got my second job under similar circumstances. And a third one. I did well at all of those companies and left on my own accord. I should also mention that none of those companies were even on a map as far as serious software development is concerned. Reality is that companies that are not desperate will be pick…

> forever looking and never really giving anyone a chance Or they have some bad attrition.

DrChrono is looking for a Django developer to transform healthcare! Every. Day.

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by muzani »

ai_ia wrote: post #11
neverminder wrote: post #8

I got my first job in a company that was desperate, because their only other developer was leaving in days. Got my second job under similar circumstances. And a third one. I did well at all of those companies and left on my own accord. I should also mention that none of those companies were even on a map as far as serious software development is concerned. Reality is that companies that are not desperate will be pick…

Maybe there should be job boards for desperate company?

That's your standard cheap job board. I recommended one of my previous companies post on SO jobs, they're like "we can't afford any of the programmers there".

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by hbk1966 »

l-p wrote: post #12

Despite having completed much more interesting and impressive projects, my first CTO took me based on a few Ti-BASIC programs I wrote because I was bored in high-school. http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/107/10786.html Landed me a job in a small game studio. I'll never understand.

Maybe I should upload my TI-BASIC programs...

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by pknerd »

It was kind mix of Repo+ blog posts that helped me to land a few freelance gigs, contracts and then ultimately a job.

Mostly people contact me for web scraping and automation related work after viewing my site[0] or blog posts[1]

[0] - http://adnansiddiqi.me [1] - http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/scraping

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

It's a private project, but basically:

A PHP endpoint that received a POST request of some sort, and then I would return something based on that, a very primitive REST service and a C# application would act accordingly, and it would log the data to a MySQL database. It was meant to allow us at my old job to keep track of who used our computer lab, it wasn't meant to be overly secure on the front-end, if they figure out how to break behind the application we weren't worried about those cases, only the case where our database was compromised.

I think the more important bits of my interview were just our overall conversation, the code just showed I wasn't all talk really. He liked the answers I gave and the rest is history. That was 1 year and 1 day ago. Still working at my "first real job" as most people call it. My previous job was part time and at a school so I didn't do many programming projects.

Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

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Post by danesparza »

mrlyc wrote: post #25

In 1984, I wrote a BBS for the Commodore Vic-20 which had up to 63 public and private rooms (message areas), private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. The topics covered everything from general chitchat to string theory. The board was very popular with each user spending an average of 70 minutes on it. One of my users said "Anyone who ca…

"Anyone who can write a BBS for a Vic-20 can program!"

Truth. Out of curiosity, have you watched any "Halt and Catch Fire" (the tv show)? I'm curious to know if it's similar to what you remember in the mid-80's. Info from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...

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