The difference between Entry Level & Junior Developers
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2 min readSep 28, 2016
Entry Level Developer
- Just came out of a 12 week coding camp.
- Just finished a Computer Science degree, but didn’t freelance or work on open source projects during their degree. Didn’t get a 1st.
- Is self taught but with no commercial experience or substantial open source work completed yet.
- Requires substantial hand holding & mentor-ship from more senior developers to be functional.
Junior Developer
- Coding camp + 6 months commercial experience or self directed learning.
- Computer Science Degree, but freelanced, worked on projects that weren't required for their course and got a 1st.
- Self taught, then worked on a bunch of projects collaborating with random people from the internet until they got good.
- Still needs input from more senior developers, but not that much and doesn’t need hand-holding.
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