First Tech Jobs

This was my bootstrapping process: Got a tech-support job at a software company. During my first week, wrote a company-themed screensaver. Showed it to the CEO. Became a developer later that day.

Self taught programming while making a web service that I thought was ace while in university but never made any money after overstaying in university and finally quit and I had to get a job.Joined some startup who was struggling to get their services right as they didn't have any proper programmer. I just kept fixing stuff left and right with my 10 years experience and it was apparent even from their clients who the guy was that kept fixing stuff.I was planning to quit the place in a

I found my first software engineering job through an HN hiring post by a YC company. It was at a time when my life and resume were... not great. But I could code, and that was enough for them. It was the only offer I got. I became a software engineer, moved to the bay area, and my life turned around. That company had its issues and I did not stay very long, but I would not be where I am today if it weren't for that post.

When I was trying to transition into tech and find my first Real Developer job, I found a job posting for a local startup in a Who is hiring? thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242143) and reached out. They ended up taking a chance on me as a junior developer. It helped to kickstart the rest of my career in tech, and it absolutely changed my life.Perfect example of the r

Yes, that's basically how I started my tech career.

When I was in high school, I was kind of into competitive programming. We wanted to conduct contests, but the labs didn't have internet access, so we couldn't use stuff like SPOJ/Codeforces.To make it easier for our computer club to conduct small contests, I made a small application in Python that could display problems, accept submissions, and automatically grade them.It had a horrible "single page" UI that used jquery to hide and show divs to switch pages, and ob

Oh no! This makes me sad. I got my first job (what started my whole career) using SO Jobs. It was brand new back in the day (Feb 2012). I was a self-taught kid from an underdeveloped country (Argentina) and had the "audacity" to apply for a job at an American company. It COMPLETELY changed my life (had a salary in US Dollars, learned about startups, started my own company and sold it years after).I am still very grateful to my first employers, coworkers and, at some extent, grateful

This describes my first job. We ended up automated everything and I ended up getting hired as a programmer.

I remember the thread. Reading about it on HN back then I started programming stuff outside of game scripting. I had just finished high school. At a meetup it led to my first job. It’s been a good 10 year career and couldn’t have gone better in this regard. Thank you for Codecademy which was life changing for me.

I had almost received my B.S. Management when I was offered a entry-level job as a Requirements Analyst at an eight-person software company. At this point I had probably written 1000 lines of code in my entire life (JavaScript/PHP, mostly copying tutorials) and had no real intention of becoming a programmer.After four months, I had become the longest tenured employee (besides the owner, who was non-technical) after everyone else in the company quit. I had no choice but to take the role of Le