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Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer?
An anonymous reader writes "I received a state university degree in Computer Science. After graduation, I immediately took jobs in QA to pay the bills while waiting for other opportunities, which of course turned out to be as naive as it sounds. I've been working QA for several years now and my resume does not show the right kind of work experience for programming. On the whole I'm probably no better as a a candidate than a CS graduate fresh out of college. But all of the job postings out in the real world are looking for people with 2-5 years of programming work experience. How do you build up those first 2 years of experience? What kinds of companies hire programmers with no prior experience?"
Top flight developers producing quality code don't need large QA departments. They've already written well-designed, bug-resistent code, unit tests, integration tests, and performance tests, all in the course of producing something that works (the first time).
If you have to pay a phalanx of QA engineers to find bugs post-facto ("just as important as our development department"), you're doing it wrong. The bugs shouldn't have been there to begin with.
Anyone that would honestly think that, is functioning with reduced mental capacity. If a developer thinks like that, doubly so.
hahahahahah - thats the funniest thing ive ever heard.
all programmers do is write more bugs - i dont care how good you think you are.
You work in QA? Sigh. OK, I'm just about motivated enough to look that up on Wikipedia. Oh. There are ten meanings.
You see those little squiggles that go after the first squiggle in every word? They're there for a fuckin' reason.
Good luck finding a programming job in Qatar. YATSTDAJA.