What is the best way for juniors to find work in 2021

Question

Back when I started out fifteen years ago, programming was a fairly uncommon activity. There was little in the way of bootcamps, so your competition was mostly other self-taught teenagers. Now, these days, you're competing withe a huge amount of people who've skilled up in good practises from the get-go, and there's also much more competition from outsourced tech-shops in places like Eastern Europe who have a far better reputation than more old school progammer mills.I have a smart friend here in the UK who's been working in technical support, re-skilled at a bootcamp, seems to know what he's doing, but finding a job now things are hyper-competitive is proving really difficult. He managed to bag one job but the COO basically unfortunately pushed him towards running their support department so he didn't get as much experience coding as he'd have liked. What best avenues would he have for finding an actual programmer job?

aristofun · Accepted Answer

I always tell beginners &mdash; Build up a portfolio of good looking pet projects!Let your deals speak for you.(Together with good algo prep) you&rsquo;ll find how much companies are starving for good developers who can do something, not just write resumes and go to bootcamps. On any level of experience.

znpy · Answer

1. Define what you want to do (position, technologies involved, the kind of company you're looking for).
2. Look for companies that match, go for quantity over quality
3. Start interviewing, pay attention to the feedback (including body language from both the HR people and the tech interview people)
4. Try and adjust your profile (and cv/résumé) basing on the feedback from step 3
5. Goto 1, basically

giantg2 · Answer

I'm a midlevel. Following this for ideas if I get fired.