Best approach for self-taught developer looking for job?

Post by sb1752 » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 2:43 AM UTC

areyouhuman11 wrote: post #45

grayrest wrote: post #21

Pulled up your github account. Aside from you accidentally adding your home directory, you're making good progress. If you're looking to get a job quickly, I'd encourage you to focus on one area and I think your shortest path is the front end technologies. Pretty much every firm I know of in NYC is hiring front end developers and the main limitation is finding people who actually know javascript. If you know (not jus…

I'd be interested in shooting you an email (similar situation).

Post by stc » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 4:35 AM UTC

grayrest wrote: post #62

areyouhuman11 wrote: post #45

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I'd be interested in shooting you an email (similar situation).

Feel free to get in contact. I'm not too busy to help people out.

Post by SeoxyS » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 6:55 AM UTC

stc wrote: post #60

SeoxyS wrote: post #59

Why don't you come interview, we're hiring smart motivated people in San Francisco. http://chartboost.com/jobs As far as general advice, I'd say if your skills are not good enough to get you a full developer's job right now, try to get hired as an intern, or as a community manager or something that doesn't require coding, at a startup. Suck up the bitch work for a while, try to automate a lot of your work using scrip…

That is definitely the type of role and organization I would like to join. I am in NY right but will be back in the bay area soon and would be interested in an interview. I am certainly open to an internship, do you know if internship opportunities are paid?