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Discussion on: Advice for Those Looking for Their First SWE Job

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Dmitry Shvetsov

The first job I get when I was an absolute newbie (I knew how to use Rails generators and it was enough haha). One of my friends from the previous telco job offered me to become a developer in their startup. I was the only developer in the company but It was good for beginners.

The second job, dev in a consulting PHP/Ruby shop, I got with by demonstrating my pet project. It was a Rails app to tag and rank cities (now it sound smart, lol, this app was pretty simple).

My advice is to have a good network (read be a good person and make good connections) and work on your moonlight/pet projects (read gain experience). Contributing to open source projects is a great way to connect with other devs and gain experience.