How to get your first job in frontend?

Question

Career in IT

Hi all. Guys, can you please tell us about your experience of getting a first job, how to properly prepare for an interview. What to do if experience and some kind of unreal stack of knowledge are required everywhere. There have already been around 5 social security services, but everything has been somehow inconclusive so far (I sent around 600 responses. How should I be?

Answer 1

I got a job 21 years ago, not a front and not even a web developer, so it was not worth inviting me as an expert. But since I was invited, I will share my experience of hiring. Almost no one hires interns and juniors. At the same time, more and more people are rushing into IT, the number of applicants is already hundreds of times more than there are vacancies for beginners. Hence the relatively high requirements for the applicant at fairly low salaries. So the first thing you need is luck. You can be as cool as you want, but get lost in the flow. Second, you need a well-written resume and a pet project. And last but not least - you have to be better than the other hundred applicants. It's not very difficult, most of them are victims of courses and video tutorials. Having all of the above, you have to make a lot of responses, go to a lot of interviews and then work for a year for food. After every failed interview, ask for feedback. Mind what you asked. Pull up what you can't handle.

Answer 2

Month actively sent resumes. Welfare offered. And after the first social security - the first offer.
I was interviewed by that lead (backender, to the front - neither in the mouth nor with a foot) and his assistant (also 0). The guys were looking for a Vue developer with some bells and whistles. We sat, smiled ... 10 minutes after the security service, a call - an offer. Two days later, he warmed a chair in the office. But it cannot be said that I didn’t know anything yet - before looking for an office, I freelanced for a while.
Actually, it's very bad. Even at the social meeting, something pricked. I felt that somewhere a hefty red flag, but did not understand what was the matter. It turned out that the firm is a galley with high turnover. Man squeezer. Such offices take everyone who responds and hellishly harness them to the project at a relatively low salary - whether the candidate will burn out or not cope - it's not scary. They will find another, and this one will be thrown out at the probationary stage.
A large number of candidates are sifted and those who are not ready to plow like hell for a salary lower than the market one are eliminated. The company hopes that qualified and low-paid personnel will remain to make software development even more profitable.
The guys inside are cool, positive, the tasks seem to be not complicated, but the processes are not set up at all. Eternal trouble with priorities. No documentation, no onboarding, no mentoring... By the way, I've never seen so much shit code anywhere else. Neither before nor after. In fact, there is only one project on Vue, and 6 more on JQuery, written by the little paws of the Tirex during the Mesozoic, etc.
Four months later, I left there with a powerful boost in skills (for example, I learned to write entire programs in bash), a little more driven and with the firm intention of never getting into such an office again. And yes, to hell with the B24, and especially the BUS.

Answer 3

Make sites for all your friends, familiar relatives and you will raise money and gain experience