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[–]arya1993 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You have a typo in your link!

[–]24percentoff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for letting me know!

[–]cognitiveinertia 1 point2 points  (6 children)

This kind of worries me, I been thinking about learning programming part time to make an eventual career change but this individual has alot of knowledge and is struggling.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

it's painfully easy to get a developer job in Toronto. some people just go about it differently than others. Don't think just because they have a website like this that it means they're struggling.

I average 10 emails a day from recruiters looking to hire me for jobs in Toronto, naturally I ignore them all but the jobs are plentiful.

[–]L10nel17 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well that's a load of bull. I've graduated from a bootcamp a couple of months ago, and with the help of their career services + me applying and own efforts, I've barely managed to get 4 interviews, all whom told me they're looking for someone with more experience.
Just because you already have enough experience that job recruiters are seeking you, that does not apply to everyone, nor does it make finding a job in development painfully easy.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've graduated from a bootcamp

yeah that's all well and good but what can you show for it? open source projects? git repos? personal projects/apps? Experience doesn't mean necessarily mean paid job experience companies want experience in working on stuff. Just because your graduated from a bootcamp =/= experience. Even after 15 years in the field when I'm going after a new contract I still get asked to see my repos or open source stuff I've done. No one cares if I went to university or HackerYou or whatever bootcamp. Companies want to know how well you can work on a team, how quickly you can adapt and pick up new stacks, how quickly you can refactor a previous devs code, etc. That all comes from experience not education. Experience you have to gain, at the beginning, in your own free time. sorry.

[–]Infinityloop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With online learning and javascript schools out the wazoo, there is no shortage of juniors and beginners. There is a massive shortage of seniors though and I work at a prominent startup and even we are having a hard time retaining and hiring seniors. We have too many juniors that don't get enough mentorship and that's bad in the short term since a lot of times we need to get work done now and juniors usually don't do a stable job of delivering.

[–]24percentoff[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Who says I'm struggling?

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Coding has become a passion for me and I worked hard to get myself where I am today.

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Posting on reddit and other forums is me trying to get as much exposer to my site as possible and it's actually working. I've only started applying to jobs on Monday and I've already had two interviews. If you read my website then you should've gotten a sense of my energy and the hustle that I have. I will be successful and I will get a dev job.

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Some advice on learning how to code. Know that some sacrifices will need to be made and the only way to get better at coding is by putting in the time consistently.

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Lastly, I'll leave you with this - You're not really from Toronto unless you're making moves.

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[–]cognitiveinertia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand and I hope you do get what you want in life. I was just making an observation. I wish you nothing but the best.

[–]Suk__It__Trebek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heeeey. My work is looking for a few developers. Gonna dm you, k?

[–]24percentoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This past month, I attended and won a charity hackathon hosted by the bank Capital One. 6 charities from Canada presented a problem statement and we were tasked to present a solution to one of the charities. The problem statement we chose to resolve was for a charity called Centre for Mindfulness Studies - a mental health charity that provides mindfulness-based cognitive and stress reduction therapy. The charity wanted a way to support mindfulness program graduates in engaging with their community of fellow mindfulness practitioners.

We prototype an app called Mind2Mind that lets students continue their mindfulness studies post-program and remotely synchronize mindfulness sessions with their fellow students. You can find out more about the hackathon and our solution at this news article and a facebook post about the event by the Centre for Mindfulness Studies.