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Have you contacted any recruiters? There are a ton of entry level jobs in NYC through a good recruiter. Ad agencies are always looking for new coders, try that if you want.
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I disagree completely. He is doing the right thing. Be upfront, pay the company, this sets the right expectations. The seniors devs have an obligation to mentor him and do it well, not just delegate him internship crap work. It would definitely be worth it for both parties.
And what will probably happen is that some scummy company will happily take his money and he will still be delegated the internship crap work. What you're describing is a school, but a school doesn't ship production code to clients and has teachers at the ready to mentor anyone who needs help. An internship is just a way to get the foot in the door with some light mentoring which usually consists of a senior pointing…
This will probably less of a problem if more companies offered internships to inexperienced graduates instead of just undergraduates. The idea that you must be a student to qualify for an internship is an outmoded one, especially in a field of work where there are lots of autodidacts.
- Buy a ticket to Nigeria $1.5k - Buy $5k worth of raspberry pi’s - Spend a month there teaching everyone the basics of what you learned - Blog and video blog about it. Come back to NY and get hired right away. Does anyone see a flaw in any of this? ps - what’s your race got to do with anything?