[LRUG] [JOBS] Junior Ruby Dev (Advice?)

Fri Jun 19 03:04:27 PDT 2015

Actually, in my company, we are looking for people of any level and we don't mind if you haven't previous commercial experience.Would you send me an email at poirier.alexis12 at gmail.com and I will contact you just to speak about the interview process.
Thank you and have a nice day
Alexis. Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:56:34 +0100
From: ali at happybearsoftware.com
To: chat at lists.lrug.org
Subject: Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] Junior Ruby Dev (Advice?)

>  any job I go for which is primarily Ruby based is going to either a) have a wealth of people who do have commercial Ruby experience and so pass me over
I can't comment on the rest of your email but trust me, a wealth of people with Ruby experience is a problem literally no one has.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Kevin Fullerton <lrug at kenwa-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
On a similar (slightly related) note, what are the best options for those of us that have more commitments and more experience outside of Ruby who would like to move into a more Ruby based role?

Case in point, I've been working as a developer mainly in Microsoft technologies (started out with VB3, moved with VB through to VB6 until .NET and have done primarily C# since) and have a wealth of experience doing development, support around many more niche products (Windows thick-client CRM apps for example) and wife + children means after work I don't get the chance I'd necessarily require to build an impressive portfolio of Ruby/Rails projects on GitHub to show what level I'm at in that regard.

I've started applying for Ruby based jobs but the fear I have is due to my length of service/speciality so far commercially, any job I go for which is primarily Ruby based is going to either a) have a wealth of people who do have commercial Ruby experience and so pass me over or b) be offering a salary far below what I currently earn as I'd need to go in at a more junior level (which if it was just me I would have no issues with to get a chance to learn and prove the skills I have, however I have a wife + children to support as well)

Cheers!

Kevin

Case in p

On 2015-06-18 22:33, amscott at openmailbox.org wrote:

Dear LRUG,

A few months ago I posted here looking for job postings for a Junior

developer role. As a result of the replies, I ended up having a few

interviews with a few good companies, who liked me, thought I had

potential, but were dissuaded by my lack of commercial experience.

Those companies told me reapply in due course once I had the

prerequisite experience. Having worked on a startup of my own, and

having an 80 hour a week work ethic, I felt obviously that I would be

able to make up the shortfall caused by this.

Basically what I'm asking is are there any roles for people without

commercial experience, but who are prepared to put the work in? My

Github shows that I am industrious and don't necessarily need my hand

held to the same extent as others. Any advice on this front would be

much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Andrew

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