How to get a programming job as a sperg - I don't want to turn into a lolcow

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As you know, a true lolcow's mark is having no job. Unfortunately that is true about me and I want to fix it.

So to people with programming jobs: What is your advice to a person with an empty resume (no internship or experience) and how can they enter the job market?
Unfortunately due to being spergic and stupid I missed all of networking opportunities I had during the 4 years of BSc

Thanks a lot kiwis
 
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Seems to me programming is an ideal sperg job. Soft skills being less important than the fact that you learned to code.
 
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If you have a couple hundred dollars, I would suggest starting with getting either some Microsoft certs or some CompTIA certs. Make sure you put the date you passed the cert on your resume so they know they are recent.

Then, you'll probably have to settle for a shitty web dev job and start from there. Get a year or two under your belt (and preferrably a bunch more certs), then try for a bigger job.
 
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So to people with programming jobs: What is your advice to a person with an empty resume (no internship or experience) and how can they enter the job market?
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I guess the obvious question is, do you know how to program? Have you ever built any complete software? Not like little scripts or some tutorial shit, like built your own software completely from scratch and actually finished it?

Do you understand the fundamentals of programming enough that when given a new language or framework, you can learn it relatively quickly?

Do you actually like programming?
 
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Join some open source projects and contribute some things that you can then cite to show your experience. Or build an OS project of your own if there's some thing you want/need that hasn't already been done. Or grab some existing OS project and fork it to add a few different features then claim it as your own.
 
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you say you have a bsc. what kind of bsc? if it's comp sci or comp sci related then that's a decent starting point.

still, the number one way people get jobs in the industry is by knowing someone who knows someone who is hiring. 'networking' is basically just glorified nepotism, and unfortunately that's what this field runs on.
 
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>no internship or experience

All that matters in the tech sector is work experience. Without it, you're useless.

Getting a university degree or courses like udemy might work, people take those seriously.

Avoid recruiters like the plague and don't waste any time with recruiting companies; they can't find talent even if they're paid to find it.
 
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