Went from 0 ideas how to code to Cali internship in 4 months. Here's a complete list of internships & companies to apply for

yeah, any time i see one of these threads and the OP is in an "underrepresented group", it really dials back how much i am going to apply their experience to my own circumstances. i think it's pretty non-controversial to say that employers lower the bar when looking for candidates from underrepresented groups. I'm not saying they lower it to the point of hiring unqualified applicants, I'm just saying it's significantly lower.

i've been learning to code for 4 months, check out my small repos with mostly boilerplate code from create-react-app. the minesweeper game actually works!

i'm not getting any interviews with that. the fact that she's a woman has to help, and the fact that she's quite pretty with a headshot on her github and linkedin can't hurt, either.

unfortunately the real story here isn't that a female would-be developer with mediocre projects got an internship. it's that she made up a phony work history with her dad's business as an employer for May-August 2017, a year before she supposedly started learning to code.

It's described as a full-time Frontend Developer on her LinkedIn and on a resume I found it's described as a Frontend Engineering Internship. She also stretched the truth a bit and told her current employer that she's a CS minor in her application video (to be fair, your choice of minor probably doesn't affect your freshman courses all that much)

so the moral of the story is, if you have a shitty resume and you're sending out hundreds of applications and getting no offers, just make up a work history. Take what you are capable of today, and claim you were doing it a year ago as a full-time job. it's the simplest way to break the "can't get a job because no experience" loop

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