u/hatoot98 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I didn’t go through a CS degree or a bootcamp. I learned by building. Landed a paid project. Built 13+ automation tools that turned 100-hour monthly workflows into seconds. Real impact, real clients. And yet, every time I apply for a software engineering role, I get nowhere. So
u/michaelnovati replied ·
It's definitely a challenge but I have seen people with that kind of background get jobs that Facebook back in the day when I was there.
Contributing to open source projects that the company cares about is one option. Because you're working with their engineers on real code and if you do really well then that means more than a lot of other signal.