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?"

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better than that

[www.sorehands.com]

Write a virus program that you can upload into the mother ship. Then fly up there in case of a problem in the upload.

Once you succeed at that, you now can use the president of the united states as a reference, that will help -- unless it is GW.

BTW. Don't be obsessed with the fat lady.

Bad advice

[Red Flayer]

just find an unfilled itch in your group and scratch it

Last time I did that, I got slapped with a harassment suit.

Never mind the old IT adage I heard somewhere, "Where there's an itch, there's a communicable disease or infestation".

YMMV, but an itchy IT worker is the *last* place I'd want to put my hands.