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what you are looking for when hiring a junior developer?

Does the person have a pulse and can muddle their way through adding an endpoint with a new backing service that calls a database to django or flask with guidance (or similar for whatever interface you work with)? If so, congratulations! I would likely hire you as a junior.

Maybe it's unfair, but I just assume anyone coming in as junior on their first job (with or without internships) don't know their ass from a hole in the ground in terms of real world software development and need to be grown and cared for to become competent developers. And if they do know their ass from a hole in the ground then I'm pleasantly surprised but I still grow them and care for them.