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So like how does one get job as fresh graduate? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by alexdeathway@programming.dev to c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I have been applying via linkedin, company portal which show up on google search but somehow nothing is working out, cold dm, emails almost all eventually ending in radio silence. Not asking for some shortcut just that it all isn't making sense.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49576261

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[–] nark3d@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago

The networking advice is right, but here's the part you can actually control while you wait for that to pay off. Most fresh-grad applications look the same from the other side of the desk, a degree and a list of tutorials. What made me put someone through to interview was evidence of judgment: one or two small projects that are genuinely finished, with tests and a readme, ideally deployed somewhere I can poke at. Not a half-built clone of something. And in the cover note, one specific trade-off you made and why you made it. That reads as someone who has actually shipped, which is rarer than it should be.