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Welcome back.

As you know, I am Eli the computer guy in today's class, and we'll be talking about how to get a job is a coder in the modern world.

So you know, you've gone out there, you've got their code academy gone through boot camp.

Maybe you've gone through college.

Maybe you've self study, watch some of my classes and you feel confident and you feel like you know what is required in order to actually go out there and do coding in a professional setting.

But the problem is, is how to get a job when the issues that we run into in this modern world is that getting a job as a coder can actually be shockingly easy.

Understand?

Here, at least in the Baltimore area, the Cody and unemployment rate is 2.8%.

2.8% basically means they hire every coder that they confined, so it could be shockingly easy to get a job is a coder, but one of the big problems that we run into is the process.

The process required in order to get a job is a little bit more convoluted than it used to be.

Right back in the old days with me.

You know, when I got into traditional I t you sent out resumes toe everybody, every company you thought that my hire you.

If they had an open position, they would interview the candidates, and then and then they would slot whoever they thought was best for the position.

One thing you have to understand, though, is back in the old days were all using the same systems.

So whether you were a d o.

D.

Contractor, whether your hospital, whether in your music park, you were using Microsoft after directory, you're easy and Cisco Switches you were basically more or less using the exact same equipment.

Exact same software.

Things like anti virus software might be different backup software.

Different companies like to bring backup software, but basically you're running Microsoft Active directory on.

So back then, when everybody knew basically used the exact same equipment, it was a lot easier to just do the resume interview process Because again, if if you knew active directory, you could work for a hospital or a D o.

D.

Contractor or construction company or an amusement park in it really didn't matter.

All right, In the modern world, though, becoming a technology professional when you're going to be going out, you're going to be dealing with much, much more diverse environments on you're going be building infrastructure from the ground up.

So you're gonna be responsible for everything from user interfaces.

Toe how reports are given to the to the CEO's into the executives.

So get back in the old days.

If I installed Windows X P on a client system, whether you're a D o.

D.

Contractor, whether you're a hospital, you're getting the exact same shell.

You're getting the exact same user interface in the coding world, though.

If we're developing in some kind of product for a D.

O.

D.

Contractor or for a hospital, the user interface should be different for the different environments.

Possibly a beauty contractor.

These are all military type mindsets.

They'll want something that's a little bit more precise, doesn't need all the fluff, doesn't need a lot of CSS javascript that kind of thing in a hospital.

Maybe they need a nice color scheme.

Maybe you need to pull out the color wheel and figure out the pastels and the nice things to keep those nurses calm when they type things in the system.

I think it's important to understand, Is is when you get hired for a coder, being a coder for a hospital is gonna be different than being a coder for a d o d firm, which is gonna be a different than being a coder from a startup.

So although, uh, every you know, you may know functions and loops and that type of thing when people try to go out to get a job, it is going to be much more conversational than it used to be.

So, back in the old days again, you send resumes out.

You've got interviews.

Any M CIA, frankly, any M c s iwill d'oh.

That's not the same nowadays, right?

So it's very easy to get a job if you fit what these companies are looking for.

But the way that you're going to get that job is gonna be much more conversational Now you're going to go to meet ups, you're going to go to tech events.

You're going to talk with people, you know you're going to go and you're just gonna simply have a beer.

Just gonna shoot the crap and you're gonna talk about the project that you're doing.

You're gonna ask, you know, the person across from you what they're up to, you're gonna say, Hey, I don't suppose you're hiring.

They're going to say, Hey, I don't suppose you want a job, And then is this conversational process right?

That could be surprisingly surprisingly easy, but it is a different way of doing things.

So that's what we're going to be talking about today.

In this particular class, we're gonna be talking about this modern way of how to get a coding job, because again, in the Baltimore area, the the Cody and unemployment rate is 2.8%.

I was literally in a meet up last week of Microsoft developers where the problem was the problems Funny, they were complaining about the quality of their staff, but they said they had to keep hiring that quality because that's a fake eso again, like one of the things I tried to bring to you folks is from the decision makers Perspective.

You know, a lot of you folks are down trying, you know, you're at the employee perspective and so you think, 00 the bosses tell us, You know, if you're not perfect, they're not going to accept you.

One of the funny things is being up with the decision makers being up with the hiring people and especially right now for coders.

They're just like, Oh, my God, our people are so bad.

It's so bad, but they're the only ones we could get.

So this class, we're gonna be talking about the process of getting a coating job today.

So the first thing I'm gonna say is that I'm not gonna be talking about getting a job with the fangs, the fangs.

So we'll talk about fangs, and that's these companies are Facebook, apple, Netflix and Google.

So you hear this a lot.

A lot of those folks out there, they're gonna teach you how to get a job with fangs.

I'm not really even sure we're Microsoft.

What Microsoft show Microsoft some love, Right?

But if you want to hear about that, you can go.

You can find other other content creators.

Other other video creators out there are talking about how to get a job with fangs because that's cool and that sexy and everybody wants a job with fangs one of things as though again, I know my audience.

I know who I'm trying to talk to and most likely if you're watching these videos, you're probably not gonna be getting a job with the bangs.

Why I say that is not to despair of you, but remember, if you go to Facebook interns Intern started $90,000 a year right there.

Mid level coders are making 1/4 $1,000,000 a year easily.

The thing is, when your face But when your apple When your Netflix When your Google When you have basically an unlimited bank account, you can hire the best of the best.

And so if you can hire the best of the best, you're gonna have a hiring process focused on hiring the best of the best.

We can get into a discussion about whether they are not.

They actually get the best of the best of the end of the day, but you kind of kind of know what I'm talking about here.

So get you go out there and you hear a lot of the other people talking about how to get a job with the fangs and they're gonna talk about all these coding tests and all this crap that they have to go through.

And the reality is, is those kind of major companies can put people through that because again, they're paying in turns $90,000 year.

But an important thing to understand is those are absolutely not the only jobs out there.

They're absolutely not the only jobs on the table.

And I think if you hyper focus on those kind of massive cos you're missing a hell of a lot of opportunity again here in the Baltimore area, we have a surprising amount of small development shops.

Is the one time of development shops.

I'm talking about 10 person companies that are sitting away tippy, tapping out code for small, sore small companies, mid size companies, even components of things that larger companies are doing.

So one of the important things be thinking about is a lot of people get in there like I wanna be a coder.

I wanna work for Google.

And honestly, one of the questions you have to ask yourself is, Do you really again at this point in time and this book, I'm not talking about back in 2000 back in 2000 maybe.

But now but now and going forward, these air massive company, their massive companies with their own bureaucracies with their own massive processes, with their own things going on and really getting hired at Facebook or Google now may not actually even be what you think it's gonna be, you know, getting hired at a start up company with 2020 employees That's really taking off into a new area area of a I or machine learning or something.

That's actually very interesting, maybe much more fulfilling and even much more profitable at the end of the day.

So, just to be clear here, I'm not time.

Other fangs, if you're gonna you're gonna browbeat me because I'm not talking about always special coating tests and all this kind of crap that you have to jump through.

Not gonna go there.

Basically, I'm talking about a lot of them or standard standard companies that are out there.

The development shops, the companies that again right now really are looking for coders.

So now let's take a moment and start talking about culture.

So this is an important thing to understand what you're going to be going out there and getting a job in the modern coding world culture for these companies is massively important now, to be clear, If you want some of the videos that I do for other projects, you will know the concept of startup culture in these technology company cultures can be massively problematic.

So, to be clear, here, I'm not talking about morals, are not talking about ethics.

I'm not talking about what's right, nor am I talking what's wrong or good or bad or otherwise.

I'm just talking about what exists.

And the fact of the matter is, most coding companies have a company culture, and it's very important to understand what's going on with that company culture and not try to overlook it.

So again in the old days.

You know, 20 years ago when I was getting traditional I t job, you could slap in M CSC into any kind of company, and it really didn't matter whether it was an oil company or an amusement park or a florist shop, right?

If you had an active directory, server and active directory server is again an active directory, sir, as long as he did the job and it pissed anybody off.

Your fun thing is in this modern world, though, in this this world where we're actually developing applications were developing in the front end, we're developing the back end.

We're developing the entire work flow for the company, for the industry that we're dealing with, things like culture matter much more because basically employers want to be ableto hand a job, tasks off two employees and know the employees will do it Maur or what less in the way expected.

Bye bye, the person that's handing off the job now This is important.

Understand?

Again, I'm back in the old days if I'm installing a client operating system onto a computer, whether it's a D of the contract or whether it's a florist.

If I install Windows X, P D o.

D.

Contractor is going to get a Windows XB screen.

Flores is going to get a Windows XB screen again.

Got really mad for a cultural fit.

Isn't that important?

It was important, understand?

Is is if I'm in the coding world.

If I'm in the development shop and I say I need you to create this user interface for our clients, I want some reporting information to pop out.

I want some input forms here so they could do some searches.

Whatever else, Right.

I'm going to give you the overall concept, these air, the functional things that this user interfaces todo right.

When I hand that off to you, I want when it comes back to know it's gonna look more or less how I expected, right for company uses.

JavaScript of our company does things certain ways.

We use certain syntax.

We use color schemes, whatever else.

I want to know that that if you present the Finnish user interface back to me again, I'm gonna have to do some proof.

Proof reading, meditating, You know, move this over here carrying this color, that type of thing.

But I want to know that it's gonna Maura less look like what I expected it to, uh, again, one of the problems you get to in the coding world as you can.

Come in anyway.

What?

There's 1000 ways to skin a cat.

There's 1000 ways toe Build a user interface again.

Functionally, you can have to use during interface forms that are functionally identical and just a complete world apart, usability and everything else.

One user interface the client would accept off the bat.

The other user interface again functional.

But no secretary or no in the user is actually going to use a thing because it's convoluted or whatever else, right?

And so one of things is when you go out there to try to get a job, there's going to be a lot of questions about your cultural fit.

Not like that.

But again, back in the old days, as a standard I t professional, there used to be the coca that we're all mushrooms, you know, keep us in the dark and feed us every once in a while.

Wasn't really the dark.

It was fluorescent lit rooms.

Oh, horrible fluorescent lit, right?

Let's silver rooms.

But Sam concept, right?

You know, if I'm dealing with the active directory for a company I don't really have great with the other people in the company, it's truly that's That's where that's where there's there's kind of this mythology of the really nasty geek geek that doesn't care about what anybody thinks I remember.

Back in the old is right.

You'd have your morning, your morning meeting or maybe your weekly meeting.

You sit down with the the people that are involved.

Let's say you're setting up your actor director your security policy.

So you say Okay, What security policies do do the executives need with security policies?

Warehouse people need what security policies secretaries need.

Hold on yards and then you take that and then you go to your server room where you go to your office and then you spend the next week setting up security policy is testing security, auditing security policies verifying they knew what the hell they're supposed to.