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Managers and recruiters, what are you looking for in a intern/early-career full-stack engineer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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Honestly, I'm so done. None of the YouTube videos are helpful. Some videos have projects that are so basic and lazy, some are very much tied to a specific platform, like Cloudflare, AWS and GCP, and some are so insanely difficult, I am not sure what project I'm supposed to do.

Some say: to-do projects are too basic. Some say that URL shortener is not worth it. Some say that real-time chat apps are overdone. There's also front-end stuff, like React, Vue and Svelte. And if that's not worse, there's also opinionated answers, for back-end like for example, Rust being the future, avoiding JS or Python, or using niche backend like Phoenix or Laravel and micro-framework in some niche functional language. Then there's also this low-code/no-code stuff. We're also supposed to learn extras like Docker, Kubernetes, websockets, service workers and what-not other stuff.

I've wasted most of my time worrying about the stack and idea, that I've left them incomplete. What do I even make then as my project? A git hosting platform replica? A live-streaming social media? Almost like as if people are looking to hire a one-man army to handle the entire department. I've also completed the core lectures for FSO, but I'm still struggling.

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[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why are you aiming to be an intern/early-career full-stack engineer?

Because I'm applying to startups. The barrier to entry for corporate jobs is very high - what I mean is that there's too much of us. In such situations, people will ask recruiters who happen to be their blood relatives or neighbors to recommend them. But I do not have that privilege. And the problem with startup is poor pay, with too much skill requirement. The poor pay is still understandable, but what's understandable is the high skill requirement.

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

And the problem with startup is poor pay, with too much skill requirement.

Yea, that's the problem with startups, they're poor, so by their logic "we only have money for 1 person" - "so if we hire a full stack that does everything, that's cheapest." - "What is the cheapest dev? An intern / junior." - "So what if we get a junior full stack :bigbrain: "

And then they create a vacancy for a CEO that can build their entire start-up and label it a junior-full-stack