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Comment on Ask HN: Do I have to lie to get first tech job?

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Try getting some PRs into an estabilished open source projects, such as for example Apache Spark, Mozilla Firefox etc. These projects follow standard, modern practices of software companies, so getting your PRs (maybe a couple of bugfixes or a minor feature/extension) approved means you should be qualified for a junior developer position.

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