Thank you for your insight about the hiring environment! What are your thoughts about getting involved in an open-source project or something else to get some more experience?
Thank you for your insight about the hiring environment! What are your thoughts about getting involved in an open-source project or something else to get some more experience?
definitely go for it, it's a great way to get recognition. However, it's a terrible way to learn because getting a mentor to teach you how to make changes will be very tough. But if you can, it's great because it's real work and real code changes.
I have mentored and been mentored and it's a tough process but necessary. It's what is stopping a lot of people learning a new profession later in life in my opinion, who would want to mentor an older person? I mentor young people with lots of energy and they are often very eager to learn.