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Career resources for Junior Developers

to help you land your first job

🏷️Legend:

Most of the resources on this list are free; those that aren't, are marked with 💰

Opportunities for underrepresented folks are marked with 🌈

Country-specific resources are marked with a flag and country icons, like 🚩🇨🇦 or 🚩🇬🇧

💅Getting ready for job search

  • Flatiron's guide to job search: link
  • Building an Effective Dev Portfolio - an eBook by Josh Comeau: link
  • A hiring manager's tips on making your GitHub profile ready for job hunt: link
  • See what your resume looks like after an ATS scan: topresume.com

📋Organizing your job search

  • The Muse's job tracker in Google Sheets: link
  • Flatiron's job tracker in Google Sheets: link
  • Notion template for organizing the job hunt: link
  • Trello template application tracker: link

📚Tech interview prep

  • Check if your target company doesn't ask Leetcode or whiteboard-style questions in the interviews: link
  • Top-75 LeetCode questions to focus on: link
  • List of interview questions by programming language: link
  • Competitive programming/interview prep: codewars.com
  • Tech interview handbook - an eBook by Yangshun Tay: link
  • Cracking the Coding Interview - a 2016 book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell: link💰
  • Mock interviews with peers: pramp.com
  • Anonymous mock interviews with senior engineers from top tech companies: interviewing.io💰

🚀Internships to put on your resume - no CS degree required

  • Outreachy - 3-month paid, remote internship for underrepresented folks in open source: link 🌈
  • The Collab Lab - team project practice: link 🚩The Americas & EMEA 🌈
  • Code For America's paid 8-month apprenticeship in open source civic tech for underrepresented folks: link 🚩🇺🇸 🌈
  • Paid mentorship program for early-career Ruby developers: link
  • Microsoft Leap immersive 16-week apprenticeship for bootcamp grads and self-taught developers: link 🚩🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇰🇪
  • LinkedIn Reach apprenticeship program for bootcamp grads and self-taught developers: link 🚩🇺🇸
  • Twilio Hatch 6-month software engineering apprenticeship program for underrepresented persons: link 🚩🇺🇸🌈
  • IBM New Collar apprenticeship program for candidates without an advanced degree: link 🚩🇺🇸 & EMEA
  • Shopify remote internships open to students, co-ops, recent graduates and early-career developers: link 🚩The Americas
  • thoughtbot Openings for Designers, Web Developers and iOS Developers 📱 Primarily Rails: 💎 link 🌎

💃Networking events

  • HackerX - networking events with speed-dating style interviews: link
  • PowerToFly - diversity-focused virtual career fair: link 🌈
  • TechTO Talent - livestreams and networking in the Canadian startup community: link 🚩🇨🇦
  • Your local meetups: link
  • DevPost The home for hackathons: link

👪 Communities

👉 Discord server invites expire in 7 days, so no server invites are provided. The following contain links to starting points. Discover on your own! ⤵️ If the community does not have a Discord Server it will be marked with a ⛔
  • 100Devs Leon Noel, Managing Director of Engineering @ Resilient Coders helps you become a software engineer for free: link 🌈
  • Reactiflux a HUGE community 200k+ of React developers: link
  • Women in Tech Slack channel: link - reach out to @dariatsvetkova if you want an invite 🌈
  • PyLadies community and Slack channel: link 🌈
  • TorontoJS Slack channel and events: link 🚩🇨🇦

📱 Social Content

  • #DearJuniorDev Follow Jessica Parker on LinkedIn: link
  • The CodeNewbie podcast with career stories, interviews, and tips: link
  • Soft Skills Engineering podcast (free) and Slack channel ( 💰 ) - to improve your soft skills: link

💎Job boards

Geo Name & Link Specialty
Women Who Code Womxn:rainbow:
Diversity in Tech Diversity:rainbow:
No CS OK Self-taught & bootcamp
AngelList Startups
Product Hunt Startups
🚩🇺🇸 Built In Startups
🚩🇨🇦 TechTO Career newsletter Startups
🚩🇨🇦 Work in Tech Startups
Y-combinator Startups
Otta
The Muse
4 Day Week 4-day work week
Career Vault Great work culture
Himalayas Remote jobs

💸Negotiating the offer

  • Levels.fyi - salary insights across tech companies: link
  • Blind - anonymous professional network with company/salary insights: link
  • Glassdoor - salary insights, company reviews and interview questions: link

🔥Contribute to this list

This repo has originated from my own job search as a frontend developer; because of that, it is mainly focused on web development. However, you are welcome to suggest resources for any career paths!

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