Comment Re:That, and experience (Score 1) 991
Parent is completely correct.
I interviewed recently at a successfully small company that seems like it would have been an incredibly good place to work.
While I didn't get the job I did ask for, and receive, some very useful feedback.
One of the major points was that as a graduate I'm going to be competing for work with people who have up to 3 years of industry experience. This leaves the potential employer with two options when thinking about your 'work experience equivalent'.
The first is to go purely off your academic record, so woe betide you had a slump when things got too hectic in the middle of your course.
The second is to look at Open Source work. The employer pointed out that work on an Open Source project was incredibly good as an equivalent of industry experience. It shows, among other things, that you are willing to have your code peer reviewed and subjected to analysis.
I interviewed recently at a successfully small company that seems like it would have been an incredibly good place to work.
While I didn't get the job I did ask for, and receive, some very useful feedback.
One of the major points was that as a graduate I'm going to be competing for work with people who have up to 3 years of industry experience. This leaves the potential employer with two options when thinking about your 'work experience equivalent'.
The first is to go purely off your academic record, so woe betide you had a slump when things got too hectic in the middle of your course.
The second is to look at Open Source work. The employer pointed out that work on an Open Source project was incredibly good as an equivalent of industry experience. It shows, among other things, that you are willing to have your code peer reviewed and subjected to analysis.
