Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "How am I suppose to get a job as a software engineer?" video.

  1. Companies aren't lying about it. You can look up the employment numbers of larger corporations on the internet. You can look at hundreds of thousands of job requirement postings. They aren't putting those up for the fun of it. There are people who are lying to you about this (whoever promises you the sky for two weeks of way overpriced boot camps), but it's not "the industry". The industry is, if anything, offering you a very bleak outlook on your future IF you care to read their actual publications on the topic. Which you don't. You still believe that this is a get rich quick scheme. It's not. It's a mature industry that offers bleak career prospects and endless amounts of unpaid overtime to every low EQ kid who wants them. ;-)
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  2. Experience is learning. It's just learning that you can't do in school. It's one thing to learn to configure a Raspberry Pi as a server and it's a completely different one to upload a new bare metal search algorithm on a million Google servers. Google will trust you with the latter... AFTER you have acquired the necessary experience to do it safely. Why would they let a rookie crash a hundred billion dollar search business? :-)
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  3. That's why you need to get experience on the job. Nothing can replace that.
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  4. Yes, you can, but who is going to pay you for another version of Tetris? ;-)
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  5. Those questions are undergrad computer science material. If you took a CS course at a good university you know all of that and you just have to rehash the material a bit.
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  6. If somebody is doing it for the coin alone then they are wrong in every profession. That person will also never enjoy whatever it is that they are doing. The first prerequisite is some level of passion. The burnout monster will get those without it in no time. Yes, I know what I am talking about. It was at my door once.
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  7. If you can't easily retain 40 years of experience and expertise in one if not two professions, then you never had any curiosity. ;-)
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