they all try to do me like that
My CS degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.
Are you building anything yourself right now? Or working on helping an open source project? That’s one way to help I think.
This depends on whether actual programmers are involved in the hiring process. If it’s just HR, nobody involved in that is going to know what an open source project is, why they should care, or whether it matches what’s on the job listing.
It’s definitely still worth doing. I landed my current position (started as an intern) because I had significant open source experience and the company was looking to open source one of their internal tools. Maybe that’s just the stars aligning but having a robust portfolio of open source projects and running my own homelab are the reason I am where I am in my career as young as I am.
How did you escape my pokeball?
I’m trying to get a new job, and even if I had the degree/certificate, every job needs 3-5 years experience in the specific job, and many with experience in the field. 🙃
apprenticeships can help a lot because at least in concept u should be able to start them without any experience and then come out with both a cert and some years of work experience
ofc in practice companies also try to filter for prior experience, if they can or even if they can not really and then if they don’t find anyone who meets their standards, they will complain that “no one wants to work anymore”
