Hey everyone, this is my journey for hunting for a devops engineer as a computer science graduate with no experience.
Now, as you can see, the market is really bad right now, you can be left like this:
But chasing after things that are hard is a part of the journey!
My Background
Anyways, my background, I’m a Computer Science graduate at Computer Science, and I’ve been out of work for a couple months. I mainly did an internship / contract role in Vietnam in Magento / PHP / React, building a dashboard for about 4 months, so my experience is quite minimal.
The Coding Journey
As for my coding journey, I started when I was 18, when everyone was hunting for a computer science degree, just for them to bamboozle us in the big 25. I did 100 days of code, python bootcamp, I maintained a 3.8 GPA throughout 5 years of college, while applying to roles I was certainly not qualified for.
What I Got Wrong
I went to conventions, networked, went into a crazy tutorial hell with Brad Traversy’s courses, etc. and I want to reflect on what I did wrong.
First of all, I did not choose the correct path. I was learning Python, then I started Full Stack engineering, and I think the market for Full stack has been killed, after what many people have warned me. Anyhow, if you’re finding yourself as a student, prioritize grades, networking, then building skills, please please please work with people for connections and building skills, even 10x developers are getting cooked in this market. Right now, devops roles are hot, so that’s what I’ll be hunting for.
Tutorial Hell Is Real
Two, tutorial hell is a huge thing. I think the biggest piece of advice I can give you is try not to lean on AI too much, and if you are coding without AI, make the most suboptimal ugly spaghetti code you can think of. When you outsource your thinking and problem solving skills, it ends disastrously. I’ve heard coding is a journey, not a destination, you cannot outsource your thinking, and if you want to learn something like C++ quickly, don’t bother learning at all.
Where I’m Headed
Anyways, that’s my two cents for what I learnt in the past 5 years, even though I’m not technically a developer yet, now lets get on the hunt for devops roles.
