How I landed my first developer Job

Rajesh Sharma
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

A short story on how I landed my first Job as a Front-End Developer.

A little background about my education: I was always interested in the tech since I was in school and learned C++ during last years of school. I finished my schooling in 2014 and got admission in a “Not so good” Private engineering college. During first 2 years of my college, I didn’t focus on learning much except a 2 months course on Core Java. However, I had a good understanding of core concepts of programming.

In the third year, I decided to learn web development. After taking few short courses on HTML and CSS I started “The web Developer Bootcamp” by Colt Steele. It was such a nice course that made me interested in Web development. I learned about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, NodeJS, ExpressJS etc. After that, I took few more courses on Angular and Java.

At the end of my third year, I applied for a number of Internships but didn’t get selected for any. But I still kept applying.

During the final year of my college, I got few interviews for internships, I got rejected in most of them initially, but after a few months, I started getting positive feedback. and finally cleared 3 interviews for unpaid internships. But I needed some money too and during one of the interviews, after I cleared all the rounds, the HR told me that I won’t get any stipend as I was from a tier 3 college. So I decided to move to a place with better opportunities. I appeared for 4 interviews on a single day, got rejected in 3 but cleared the last one. It was in a small company for a profile of Web Developer Intern with a small stipend.

The internship started in February. In the initial 2 weeks, I learned about some Java frameworks like Struts, Spring & Hibernate and also Angular. Then I worked on a few bug fixes and enhancements in a Big Enterprise Java Application. Most of the work was repetitive and quite boring, so I kept looking for better opportunities.

After a few more failed interviews, I cleared an interview for a front-end developer intern at another small company with almost double stipend. I left the previous company and joined the new one in mid-April.

In the new company, I learned ReactJS and started working on a project. Finally, after 2 months, I got a PPO and got hired as a full-time Front-End Developer with a good enough salary package according to my skills and experience. I am happy with my current Job but a lot more is left to achieve.


Originally published at dev.to.

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Passionate Programmer and geek. Working as a frontend developer in India.

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