teddygavi/junior-dev-career

Career resources for Junior Developers to help you land your first job

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 and glidecv.com(currently not working)
• General interview tips, networking and email templates: fullyprepped.ca 🚩🇨🇦

📋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

• 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 🌈
• CodeBusters - 6-month paid, remote internshp for early-career developers: link 🚩🇨🇦
• 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 🚩🇺🇸
• Twitter Engineering Apprenticeship 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

💃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

💎Job boards

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

💸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!