How did you find your first job in IT?

Question

Programming

Hello, I am a student of one of St. Petersburg universities. Only the first year, the first session and all that, but in general it’s immediately clear that they won’t teach programming at the university, and it doesn’t matter, I knew about it at school, and I would be happy to solve this problem by getting at least a junior assistant to a junior programmer , I think I can do it, I have not the worst theoretical background (I read books such as Schildt G. "C ++ Basic Course", Kormen T. "Algorithms - construction and analysis"), I know the syntax of languages ​​such as C ++, C #, Python (although not very deep), it's another matter that there is absolutely no practice, and where can I get it?
Therefore, I ask you to help with a story about how you found your first job in this field or some wise advice related to finding it :)

Answer 1

where to get practice? write labs, come up with interesting topics for term papers ... Make your own projects ...
And for conclusions like "they won't teach you anything" - it depends on you. You can usually make friends with undergraduates / graduate students, and for the entire time you study at the university, you should get caught by a couple of groping teachers. Too bold conclusions for a first-year student. Now, if you have the same thoughts in the 3rd year, well ... sorry. So this is the university.
And work - write a resume, send it to a couple of places, have an interview ... And if you just post a resume and wait for the weather by the sea, it will not be effective.

Answer 2

During my studies, I carefully chose a place for my internship. He made arrangements in advance to stay and work. I found such a place, tried sooooo hard and already in the second month of practice I was offered a job. At the next general meeting, they announced a new project with a deadline of about a year. The director offered to entrust it to me, which automatically meant that I was staying. I was shocked and very happy =) In total, the practice was scheduled for 3 months. As a result, he worked there for 3.5 years.

Answer 3

junior assistant junior programmer
There are none.
. It seems so to you.
In the summer, before the 5th year, I came for an interview. He said that there was a year left to study at the university and I was really no longer needed there.
You just got it into your head that education in Russia is bad, they say, "I'm cooler, I know how to do it better." And then you will blame everyone around that you didn’t learn English-German properly, you know how to code, but you don’t have Software Engineer. Google doesn't take it. And all 4 years promakali for 20-30k per month. And again our education system will be to blame. Right? After all, we are not forbidden to work in parallel with studies, but in the USA it is forbidden.

Answer 4

Better study and do your projects. Take part in Google Summer of Code. In general, being a student is one of the most beautiful stages of life. You'll still earn.

Answer 5

I read Martin Greiber's book "Understanding SQL" (understood the examples), wrote a good resume (I wrote half of it), distributed (manually) this resume to 200 large organizations in the city, went to interviews (wrote tests) and after 4 months got a very good job.

Answer 6

We had a board with announcements at the institute, there I found an advertisement for a part-time job as an enikeyshik. A year later, with some kind of experience, I went to interview for a programmer.
If there is no board, now many companies are willing to take on interns. Look for vacancies, they are definitely there.

Answer 7

Me, my employers found me)

Answer 8

on the stock exchange, the usual state labor exchange, but what I was offered turned out to be not very good in terms of salary, however, it arranged for a while and gave me some experience