As someone trying to hire Rails devs right now, I have two things to say - one good, one bad.
* The Good News: I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails (along with other contributions to open source).
* The Bad News: While there is a hiring drought, there is NOT a drought for hiring guys who just learned Rails three-to-six-months ago at a dev bootcamp somewhere. We get literally dozens of cold emails a week from people like this. The amount they can contribute is almost nothing and 95% aren't capable of holding down a FT junior position.
I think my point is don't think that you'll go to some bootcamp at have a job for 90k with benefits in 6 months. You need to work your ass off to be employable in that amount of time, although it's possible.
I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails
As someone in an unrelated career looking to transition to development, I'd be very interested to hear more about your journey and how you achieved this in such an impressively short timeframe.
I am among those who want to work as a Rails developer eventually, and I would be very much interested in hearing your thoughts about what you are looking for in hires. Things like what applicants lack the most, what you look for the most, and so on. I work my ass off towards my goal nights and weekends (as I have a day job doing something else), but I haven't started applying for jobs yet.
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As someone trying to hire Rails devs right now, I have two things to say - one good, one bad.
* The Good News: I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails (along with other contributions to open source).
* The Bad News: While there is a hiring drought, there is NOT a drought for hiring guys who just learned Rails three-to-six-months ago at a dev bootcamp somewhere. We get literally dozens of cold emails a week from people like this. The amount they can contribute is almost nothing and 95% aren't capable of holding down a FT junior position.
I think my point is don't think that you'll go to some bootcamp at have a job for 90k with benefits in 6 months. You need to work your ass off to be employable in that amount of time, although it's possible.
I am among those who want to work as a Rails developer eventually, and I would be very much interested in hearing your thoughts about what you are looking for in hires. Things like what applicants lack the most, what you look for the most, and so on. I work my ass off towards my goal nights and weekends (as I have a day job doing something else), but I haven't started applying for jobs yet.
Curious - What city are you in?
NYC