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Calling for three years experience for a junior is rediculous - anyone who is still working as a junior after three years is not managing their career correctly. It's pretty common for companies to ask for it though unfortunately. The nice thing is it gives you a nice insight into the way the company views its employees.
Companies should hire at the junior level as an investment - train them up and turn them into exactly the type of mid level developer they need as quickly as possible. When you see a position like this it just screams "we want a mid level dev at a junior level price asap"
btw, just in case you aren't already doing it, make sure you are learning more advanced front end technologies like React, Vue etc and especially testing - no company is going to hire you if all you can do is code the absoloute basics, even as a junior. -
The best is when they want x years experience in something, when said thing has existed for < x years.
The fun thing is that most companies get their job listings and initial hiring process for tech roles handled by non-tech people. You can spot these a mile off, and they usually go south pretty quick.
Keep looking, you’ll know when you’ve found a good match!
Don’t be afraid to ask questions either. Regardless of its merit, I find asking them for their Joel Score is a good one, as the techy ones tend to know what it is. -
@Navigatr thanks, yeah I think it’s definitely to deter some people - it’s just so demotivating you know? But I’ll keep looking.
Good luck with your studies. -
@FoolsGambit I know right, thank you for confirming.
Yea, I know a bit of React and Angular, and I also know a bit of RoR. Not much I know, but I only decided to start taking this seriously a year ago. -
@Brolls lol those ones indeed crack me up. Thanks for the advice, I will definitely be asking about the Joel Score at the next company I get an interview at.
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Fuck them! I graduated as a programmer but really liked Linux server stuffs so I applied to a hosting company for the Linux support engineer position and I got it because me and the boss had a good click, I have been working (as hobby) with Linux servers for nearly 8 years now and we liked the same music! Had 0 work experience but the boss didn't care :)
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@linuxxx thanks, I’m making sure that I’m focusing on things that’ll make me stand out. And I hope that by telling hiring people my story, maybe they’ll give me a chance.
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Just applied to a new job with this as my cover letter.
Wish me luck!
Hi everyone, I’m new here and this is also my first rant.
I’m in the job hunting boat once again and I’ve been looking at Junior front-end positions. I thought I’d rant about something that always annoys me when looking through the requirements.
Wait, so in order to land a Junior front-end job, I have to be a freshly graduated person with a Master’s degree in CS, with a minimum of 3 years working experience and all that just to come code in HTML, CSS and JS?
For the love of god, I’m one person damn it. It’s not like I’m a self-taught developer that taught myself those things and more in a shorter period of time after quitting college.
On a more serious note, I’m not by any means claiming that I know everything, but having a CS Master’s degree for these types of positions is clearly ridiculous in my opinion.
Sometimes I wonder if the people writing these things are making it up as they go or whether they’re actually serious.
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