How to Get a Developer Job - Even in This Economy [Full Course]

Thanks so much for letting us build this course!!! Hope it helps some folks. The technical skills are only half the battle (that doesn't mean you can skimp on em tho)

Theo emphasizing having a goal that can be reached really resonates with me. I think for people that have adhd, it can be difficult to narrow a goal down to something specific. I always feel like I need to fully learn a certain thing/topic before I can move on to the next thing, and the scope just keeps increasing to the point where it becomes overwhelming and I give up. And it’s true that no one fully knows a language or a technology, you just continue to learn what is necessary for the things you build.

00:20 - 17:30
1. how to allocate your time: before the threshold of applying a job, 100% time to learning; after the threshold, shouldn't stop learning, split the time 50/50.
2. signal ang noise analogy, give employers the signal you are the right one.
17:32-19:02
learning by doing(practicing), if you could build something people are still using, that would be a good signal.
19:05-21:52
try to find a job out of pity is a bad strategy.
21:53-26:41
Portfolio Projects: an interesting project is very effective.
26:42-30:47
Building a project is most efficient way to learn and to show that you know how to code. A project not always is an app, it also could be a library.
30:48-34:25
Set a realistic goal, because only if when your goal is concrete enough, you will know when you have achieved it, more specific your goal is, more driving it is.
34:26-47:10
One impressive project is way better than 30 mediocre lackluster projects.
How to write a good readme and why you should avoid using word like "just".
47:11-53:33
How to write quick start, usage, contributing etc.

I resonate with the janitor. I do have a project and have been trying for months after graduation but I'm running out of savings so I'll just do whatever I get at this point. I don't know if I have the willpower to continue. Good luck to everyone still fighting, I have nothing but respect and best wishes for you.

I made a Wordpress template single page site for a lady who works at an accelerator for 1200. A couple weeks later she suggested me as a software engineer to a startup looking to grow their team. That was my lucky break into tech landed a 50 an hr junior dev roll sometimes it’s just complete luck because I still don’t feel prepared but I’m trying my hardest to catch up before they fire me 😫

Thanks for this! I've been building my own website for about 15 years, I learned bit of code over the years until about three years ago, and then did some local classes via local adult ed classes, so I've actually coding for about three years, and rebuilding site, this year. I've done back end C# mainly over the last 13 months, but going back into front- end doing some HTML, CSS and JS refreshers. Going for getting hired this year. Turning 57 this year, I've needed to get laser focused.

This is gold. The video is full of good and interesting advices not only for entry-level developers, but for experienced developers too. Though I've been coding for a long time developing dozens of websites from my tiny company, I'm having a hard time finding new clients and projects, so I'm gonna put in good use some of the tactics said here. Thank you and happy coding. :)

I freelanced for 4 years - during that ran a brand consultancy for 16 years - fairly social so could get clients and then one who had a good business acumen wanted to bring me in as a partner in the business.
My advice is the tech side is obviously critical but don’t ignore the social skills!!
Take care of yourself and improve your appearance. Look your best. People like more attractive folks
I also think being worldly helps too. Read books outside of tech and be interesting.
Socialize. You can get so many jobs just going to nice bars and meet ups.
If you got friends who come from money or business families , be the tech guy in their network they’ll toss the work to you

Gonna watch this as soon as I get home from work!! Thank you for always putting out great content for people trying to get into programming jobs!!💙

This is exactly what I needed today. Thank you so much for this. I've been working hard for the last few years in learning and working on personal projects and so far haven't had luck in the job hunt. Some good stuff in here that I will definitely take into account moving forward!

The amount of "Jr" listings I see that ask for 5+yrs of experience is insane.

Got my CS degree specializing in Software Engineering, but my first real "job" was "junior network engineer" and then "accounts bookkeeper" which I absolutely hated, learned a ton though, 2 years later I'm back to software and I feel so left behind just thinking about what could've been had I pushed through the pain and struggle of continuous learning while not finding a software dev job. I did what paid my bills, but now that I'm back and working, I'm never leaving this industry again, come ai or whatever.

To Quincy , Beau and the creators of this course. THANK YOU!

Thank you for this video!
I have 4 years of experience and I can tell this is gold!

I got in by going help desk > technical administration > systems admin > now software developer with very little training or projects . Just basic hmtl css and some c# . ...

This is what I need! Thanks for understanding my needs

Thanks so much. I got my first dev job 2 years ago but the company went under in December and have had no luck getting another job with 2 YOE and no degree. Haven't even gotten to a technical interview yet. Just ghosted after the the screening interview.

I'm in the same situation as the example of the guy who graduated more than a year ago and doesn't have a job. I graduated in the middle of the pandemic and I couldn't get a job so I continued with my normal job and after a few months I stopped applying for jobs and the worst thing was that I stopped studying. I regret it a lot and now I'm making up for wasted time reviewing everything I did and learning what I should. The challenge will be to have this bachelor's degree on my resume, which increasingly increases the time without job experience.
*little experience writing in English*

What an amazing video. If people wondering if these tips work. Yes, some of the things mentioned here are what helped me land my first job. If I had this video when I was looking, I would of probably landed my first job even quicker. Lots of actionable things here.

Thanks guys. Every bit of help is greatly appreciate in this grim market. But one thing I have to point out is that it's NOT getting easier for subsequent jobs unless you're relying on cronyism. In fact, finding a job after a gap is much much harder than your first ever job.

I gave up on coding jobs.
I am changing my domain.

The sob story worked for me to get my first internship. However, I didn't really say anything sad or negative, I just sent a letter begging them to let me in cause I wanted to work there REALLLYYY BADLYYY. It was more desperation than pity.

I've worked for 2 companies so far since graduating, a total of 3 years for both. Got laid off and looking. It's been a year. No callbacks, no interviews, no nothing. Revised my resume a hundred million times, cold emails, even making it a LatEx resume to beat ATS systems. Nothing. The only thing wrong that I can point to is my location. That's the only thing I can think of considering I live in Africa

Referred by Don the Developer! Can’t wait to give it a listen. Thanks for making the time to create this!

I understand this is for backend, but it seem to useful for front-end as well. The electronic drums are very cool, I've been into electronic music since about 1980.

Oooh how helpful. Thanks guys!

I still have a lot of learning left because at a certain point in your talk about projects I had no idea of the jargon you used for GO and the different APIs.

This is an incredibly comprehensive video! Thank you for this! 🎉

This is more a podcast than a course and a very enjoyable one

MY BUDDY ThePrimeagen @ the video LETS GOOOO

I skipped to hear what Theo had to say and he's right. This is why reading a textbook on programming can be helpful: the end-of-chapter questions give you goals to hit. I think that's why Automate the Boring Stuff is one of the best--if not the best--book on coding for self-taught developers ever written. I mean, you learn to code the game of life in like chapter 4 or 5. That's nuts. And, if you want, you can skip the explanation and just do projects yourself and then come back to the book if you get stuck. Amazing book.

just saw the first chapter ,I really enjoyed and got a lot of information. will complete it soon enough. thanks for such awesome content

Thank you so much for this video! As I am actively applying for jobs this really helped build a blueprint for my goals. 🎉 Never too old to learn or change careers. 😊❤ Musician/teacher for 25 years and excited to bring that experience into the tech industry😊 Thanks again and good luck everyone on your coding journey! 🎉🥳

This channel is a whole universe for coding knowledge seriously 💥✨🌟💫💯🔥

very usefull tips, i will definitely come back i rewatch it in couple of months when i start applying jobs.
Thank you so much

Thank you very much, here in Brazil this kind of content is very rare.

I got a long time as web developer front and back, I love more backend I've never got a job, but I'm freelance jobs. I want to stand out from others doing a really good backend project, using a lot of math, learning many things all the time, and feel overwhealm, it's time to get a decent job, I hope can able to get it, not more hope my hands in action.

Hi Lane, Thank for all the tips you share with us, I really find amazing the information!!!

I graduated may 2023 with a masters in CS and im still applying to jobs. I luckily have been able to keep my student position which pays the bills, but i really just want to get out and develop. Thanks for this course, looking forward to getting through it.

I love this course so much as I cannot find this anywhere.

Hi Lane, thank you very much for this course it will help me out tremendously. I just had a question when you were referring to libraries (1:06:07 ) could you show us an example of some. I worked on our restaurants POS system and developed an amazing library (I wanna call it now) of all the different server inputs needed in order to perform efficiently. Thanks I’m Keith by the way on the self-taught web developer looking to enter this industry
Have a nice day!

Thank you for such valuable information and for providing help to the programming community

This is gold. I really appreciate this.

I'm going back doing more projects. Some concepts in coding still don't click yet for some reason and my unimaginative self can't think of ideas to create my own projects.

At 7:17, you talked about a gap in your resume. I graduated in July 2023 and still have not found a job but kept learning. I learnt Data structures and Algorithms from websites. Also, i learnt Design patterns. Can I put these in my resume or will it look stupid? 28:07

Thank you man! This is so useful. ❤

Are you Quincy, is that your name? I wanted to congratulate you. You have a fine and polished skill and talent to teach and articulate a concept that stands out like I have rarely seen. I wish you were around years ago when I was in the job search. I have learned a great deal of all the mistakes I made looking for jobs and information I never found in books. Most of your information applies to any career/profession as I have nothing to do with coding; yet you answered many of the why’s I never was able to figure out. So, thank you.☺️

The state of the economy is very important: if there is a recession, recent grads or people without commercial experience in general are going to have a very hard time getting jobs. People like to talk about projects and resumes but nobody is going to look at you if you don’t have commercial experience if companies are downsizing.

Thanks so much for this Beau !

Amazing content. But I am a recruiter trying to break into the industry. 9 years of experience(7 with big headhunting firms) and 2 in-house with a large company. I will say I always had a fair bit of clientele who were looking for entry level candidates that just didn’t have the TA capabilities to find them/ screen them and would rely on us to screen for personality and culture fit.
Mostly mid to small companies, $50m -300M revenue size. So I would argue talking to them for those purposes. That said, you will now have a fee attached to you if that company wants to hire. So it can be great as recruiters have access to positions that aren’t even posted (that happens a lot too) and can be your advocate but also true that a company may be less inclined to hire you because of the fee. Typically that’s not an issue.
Plus it can be good interview practice. As a 3 rd party recruiter, I can coach you and give you candid interview feedback, having interviewed thousands of candidates at all levels, whereas an HR or internal recruiter will typically never give you the real reason you weren’t hired due to the risk involved.

I made a simple website that took a persons local time, converted to a string of unix time for discord. This was to help many of my streamer friends making schedules for their streams. Now they could just enter their local time and everyone else would see it in their local time (be that sweden, america, or chile)
Very simple!

I do appreciate this.

Great video! Thanks for sharing the wisdom!

THANK YOU!!

1:49:50 about the feedback. I live in NL and the only times when i receive feedback, it is mostly due to my lack of professional experience. While i apply for junior level jobs

Great course, thank you!!

This is BRILLANT! OUTSTANDING STUFF

So much helpful. Very much thanks😊

much needed course

As for the skateboarding example, if you watch the slow motion tutorials, you won't even be to apply those things the exact same way since we have different physics and ways to move.
A tutorial will only give you the imagination and the gymnastic around solving a certain problem. But then you should get your own application of the solution and the trick.❤

This is really good. Thanks!

So helpful course. Thanks

Appreciate this video, makes me realize that I am not cut out for this industry, and getting a software engineering degree was a mistake and waste of time. I really relate to that janitor

Thanks for posting #

ayyye Don! great to see it!

can't believe that begging for a job is no longer enough, with what's happening in the job market I won't be surprised if one day when you apply for a job to be a slave you need years of experience lmo you probably won't even see junior or entry-level slave you will senior level Slave with ridiculous Job requirements

The Primeagen mentioned, lets go

Got my IT 4 year-degree and started as a Tech Support Analyst intern then hired as a MS Power Platform dev. I struggle to explain to my wife (she's in healthcare) that although I got a job, it's going to require continuos self learning outside of work. Feeling imposter syndrome.

Good afternoon! Thank you sincerely for the video! I hope to see new videos coming out soon :)

Thanks❤

Thank you so much free code for give some class es ofpoor nepalese youth energetic people

I keep falling asleep to science lectures and waking up to this.

Luck or bust. In my country there are currently just 6 offers for junior front end devs, all 6 require to have 2+ years commercial experience and fluent skills in several stack, git, testing and preferably good skills in backend. Good luck people. I just tapped out of the race after 2years of wasted time on learning front end, its no longer realistic to get job in that field after recent layoffs. Will do some freelancing and try to get job in my old field.

Thanks for everything.,.!!!

THX❤

Magnificent video Congratulations, Cool !!! 😃👍🥊

Thank you. This is the year I want to transition to the tech world.

I am currently Self-taught in JavaScript, I want to get enough knowledge before applying for a degree or just self taught all the way to a job.

sure wish I seent chapter 1 like a decade ago when I graduated from college
basically just sat on my ass and barely have any work history or projects at all. rather unemployable, and can't really muster the will to grind hard at fixing that either :/

What if am already working for a startup and i developed multiple apps for them , can i put this projects/apps in the project section of my cv ? (of course i will mention the name of the company )

Speaking of going for a CS degree, I am half way and looking to finish y degree in the next couple years. By the time I will finish my degree, I will be 54 years old. Do you think that that will affect my chances of finding a job knowing that I have no previous IT experience?

The most insane part is how others can say you're unemployable yet you're the only one who says you are. I hate how life absolutely relies on a support network of strangers. I'd do it all myself if I could.

Did anyone wake up to this playing? I was watching some podcast, when I woke up this is playing lol.

Thanks

Developer job is great. They are creators.

would you delete branches after merge them with main branch for portolio project?

Thank you so much to all participants

I have programming experience ~8 yes, but I never knew that I could use all my dumb programs as actual experience / projects. I'm about to center my resume & projects around AI stuff now 😮😮

🔥😍 thank you all

Thanks, will be using this to get my first data science job

I need a course on How to stay in a job, even in this economy 😅

What an amazing video

Awesome video

How can i land a web dev job with just html and css? Still learning JS. Hoping to find a Landing Page job or anything that only require html and css for now.

2:40, I don't know what you're smoking, but this is completely unreasonable. At least here in Canada, all the engineers I know - and some of my friends, including myself - consider it lucky if you get two phone screenings per 100 applications.

But all the tech jobs are in Lehi, which is right next to AF.

Let's be honest. Programming jobs are disappearing because AI is now able to code. This trend will continue. The jobs aren't coming back.

You see them guys with the moustache , you know it is a video for the non-programmers and instead for the job hunters. Just to make some fun !

im 30 n planning to change my career domain to coding , any hopes ?

What program is he using to draw on screen? Look good.