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How I Found a Junior Frontend Developer Job in 2 Weeks After 1 Year of Self-learning

ulyavrubel on November 09, 2020

Hi, I’m Ulyana, a self-taught front-end developer switching careers from a real estate analyst to tech. In August 2020 I was offered a job after on...
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z2lai

Your portfolio website is incredible, I've never seen such an aesthetically pleasing design for a portfolio before. The simplicity of it is perfection! Your MusicDB project breakdown looks like it was professionally designed by someone from Apple! Also, the breakdown itself was genius.

Hands down the best portfolio website I've ever seen, it's no wonder you got a job so fast. And all this after only one year of learning? You have some serious talent for frontend development, I hope to be as good as you one day.

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z2lai

After going through your resume, it's even more incredible how you were able to produce all this after just 1 year of self-learning from a completely unrelated background. What you've achieved is truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing!

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Omg thank you so much for that kind of a feedback! Put a lot effort into this, but strangely at the interviews people didn’t ask me anything about the portfolio or projects 🤷‍♀️ but anyways I’m very happy that I’ve built it and proud of it 😂

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Learn to Code Quickly

Hey Ulyana, great article, it's one of the first I came across when I started in on this and it's been a fantastic resource, I've linked to it on the coding resources portion of my site, great work!

learntocodequickly.com/learn-to-co...

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ulyavrubel

Thank you! happy to be helpful!

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Will G

Thanks for posting! I feel like some of the links you posted can fill in the gaps in my knowledge particularly the Firebase Auth. Much appreciated and best of luck with your new job!

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ulyavrubel

Thank you William, nice to know it was useful in any way 😁

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

This is amazing and very inspiring.

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Blessing Hirwa

Wow! That's great, I'm also currently looking for a remote job as a frontend developer but this really inspired me a lot. Thanks a bunch.

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Adnan Ashraf

Bravo! You did it. Very motivational story..

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ulyavrubel

Thank you Adnan, that was the main purpose of the post :)

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May

Congratulations! It takes a great amount of self discipline and motivation to accomplish what you did in just a year. Wish you the best in your new career :)

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ulyavrubel

Thank you May!

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Aashiq Ahmed M

In the random recipe generator of you,there is no scope in having the auth for signup and signing in ,can you explain when this will be used in the workflow?

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Erik O.

IMO it's a better way than going to university and stay there for 3-4 years learning a lot of things you won't use anyway.

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Saif Al Siam

Really It's amazing . you're my idol now & I must try to follow your steps to be junior developer. Thanks a lot. take care

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Qaiser Majeed

Love the way how you compiled the whole journey. Keep it up

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ulyavrubel

Thank you Qaiser 😁

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dabellwrites

Wonderful article! You really put in the work to get the job.

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Qing(Jim) Lin

Thanks, Such an impressive article and experience, now i believe i would need a PHD degree for qualified to working as a front-end developer

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Precious

You are impressive in every way. I sort of fell out from self-studying and reading this was so inspirational, so I'm getting back on. I just thought you should know you helped me.

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ulyavrubel

I'm glad it was helpful, good luck in your studies!

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Faisal Raza Khan

Thanks Ulyavrubel for sharing this!!!
This is a well-balanced article for anyone who wants to switch careers into tech just like me.