Passion can't be measured with credentials so why do companies keep screening for them?
I spent the last three years studying as a hobby and as a full time student learning multiple frameworks, front-end and backend, and additional technologies that made me curious like Vim and I can't even land a single technical interview.
After coming to the Bay Area, I was thinking my github portfolio and communication and networking skills would at least get me in the door to prove myself.
Once coming I found out I would need to learn CS topics to get past the technical interview and that React would be a good entry point for a first job. So I left and studied another 6 months before returning. The second time I got a part time job as a coding instructor at a bootcamp because I have a history in teaching, but still struggle to get in the door for engineering interviews.
Nobody takes me seriously without credentials, I always thought that in a technical interview people would be able to figure out where you stand and not need credentials. The problem is companies get flooded with resumes so they build automated software to screen the best candidates but passion can't be screened.
I spent the last three years studying as a hobby and as a full time student learning multiple frameworks, front-end and backend, and additional technologies that made me curious like Vim and I can't even land a single technical interview.
After coming to the Bay Area, I was thinking my github portfolio and communication and networking skills would at least get me in the door to prove myself.
Once coming I found out I would need to learn CS topics to get past the technical interview and that React would be a good entry point for a first job. So I left and studied another 6 months before returning. The second time I got a part time job as a coding instructor at a bootcamp because I have a history in teaching, but still struggle to get in the door for engineering interviews.
Nobody takes me seriously without credentials, I always thought that in a technical interview people would be able to figure out where you stand and not need credentials. The problem is companies get flooded with resumes so they build automated software to screen the best candidates but passion can't be screened.