41: How long does it take to get a job in tech?
How long did it take you to go from knowing you wanted to be a developer to actually starting work at your first dev job?
A Question of Code · Ed & Tom Hazledine
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Show Notes
When you've decided you want to get a job as a professional programmer, it can be hard to know how long to expect the learning process to take. We only have two hosts, and while their stories are (hopefully) useful, it's only a small segment of a much bigger picture.
We polled our listeners to find out some of their stories, and specifically asked how long it took them to get their first coding job. Does it take everyone years? Or can it really be done in just a few months? Find out all this and more in this week's temporal instalment of A Question of Code.
The inciting Twitter thread with all the fantastic responses.