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Best way into front end development for mid 30s career pivot?

1 点作者 mlgrn将近 3 年前
I&#x27;ve worked as a musician and supplemented that with video production work for about a decade.<p>In March 2020 when the world shut down for COVID, I started learning web development. Taught myself modern HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, common JS libraries, SASS&#x2F;SCSS. Built some portfolio. Hustled and did a bit of freelance work.<p>I am now attempting to find a job doing front end development, but I&#x27;ll admit it&#x27;s pretty discouraging to apply for an entry level job with 100+ other applicants and rarely hear back from the company or recruiter.<p>What would you suggest to someone like me trying to work their way in?<p>P.S. Currently learning more about MongoDB, node&#x2F;express, and Typescript because a lot of jobs ask for experience here. Maybe this is the problem? Just not knowing enough tools?

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wsintra2022将近 3 年前
Build things, in particular build something that uses an API. For example, build a backend that has some kind of model relationships, a customer DB with products maybe ? Then build a frontend that can list those products and have a customer interact with them in some way.<p>Another good way to find work is to get some real world experience. Volunteer on some projects. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socialcoder.org&#x2F;Home&#x2F;Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socialcoder.org&#x2F;Home&#x2F;Index</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeforfun.com&#x2F;volunteering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeforfun.com&#x2F;volunteering</a><p>If you know python and want to work with a charity in the UK.. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books2all.co.uk&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books2all.co.uk&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;</a>
plasticbugs将近 3 年前
Same here. Pivoted from video production to web development about four years ago. I went to a coding bootcamp (Hack Reactor) in person here in San Francisco. Great experience and well worth the time and money investment. That said, I was just horrible at interviewing, so it took me longer than most to land my first job (7 months!). Had about 10 on-sites before getting hired.<p>I found my current gig through another person in my bootcamp cohort. Honestly, cold applications through job boards was just awful - I did about 10 per day and got one hit a week at best. If you can, attend some meetups to meet other engineers and get the word out that you&#x27;re looking for work.<p>If you can swing it, try to attend a reputable bootcamp to get up to speed with the finer points of JS, data structures (stacks, queues, binary trees, linked lists, etc), hooks-based functional components in React, and the coding interview. I doubt much has changed with regards to the coding interview in the past four years. Pick up &quot;Cracking the Coding Interview&quot; - my current employer did not put me through hellish whiteboard algorithm nonsense, but it&#x27;s still pretty much the standard with many employers and I was asked more than once to traverse a binary tree on a whiteboard in JS.<p>You can learn most of what you need to know on the job, so I advise on specializing and really becoming competent with a few tools and technologies instead of diversifying this early.<p>Redux is slowly going out of style it seems, but it&#x27;s still used widely and is one of the more difficult things to pick up as a beginner. So if you&#x27;re going to add to your repertoire maybe start there if you haven&#x27;t already.<p>Keep applying to jobs and learning on the side. Get out there and meet other web developers. Consider a coding bootcamp if you can swing it.
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