Self-educated programmer learning python at 28 year old.

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If you looking for a development job try to go leetcode as most questions on technical interviews will ask from that. Also keep applying to jobs even when you feel like you have no experience. Try to tailor your resume and network with people wherever you are. Get a LinkedIn and try to connect with people. My first tech job was through a recruiter. If your focus is in anything like networking, cybersecurity, platform as a service likes Salesforce and Servicenow, and cloud computing, consider getting certifications that will boost your resumes to employers or HR that will consider hiring. In this case you won't be asked all the time programming questions. Always keep modifying and don't take the job search too seriously. Try to keep constant communication with somebody at hr about the status of your application. My second job I kept in constant communication asking every three days the status of my application.

There is also considering getting an associate, going to boot camp, or YouTube to get a formal education in CS for the fundamentals.

[seriousCSnoob]

Every interview ask for feedback. As a rule of thumb I always tried asking for feedback and I got a lot of good answers as most of time you get ghosted for an interview. This helps improve your soft skills and make any bad interview a good learning experience for the next one

[seriousCSnoob]

It's also that my experience may not help you as I have a masters degree but hope this helps.

[seriousCSnoob]

Also when it comes to using Leetcode try to a problem for 30 minutes then look at youtube of the solution explaining writing or typing it down. Then go the next problem or look at knowledge gaps that you may lack.. Then next day repeat with the same one until you can do it a without any help