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Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points
Posted by Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points

I'm looking for a startup that has a distributed team who hires Treehouse students...

Do startups hire Team Treehouse students?

So my question is there any startups out there, or good sources to find startups, who will consider a programmer, who's only experience is Team Treehouse, with a few personal projects. I am currently in the middle of career change from Hospitality into Front-End Development. I have excelled in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, Ajax, Sass, Mac OS X Terminal, Git, UI Design and Angular.

I am quite familiar with tools such as Slack, Github, Cloud 9 and Sketch. Currently I am learning Compass, SVG, Web Typography, Typescript, Webpack, inVision, and Animation with Adobe After Effects. I really like using BEM, and Agile methodologies as well as interacting with RESTful API's. Producing clean, readable and DRY code are all natural habits of mine.

Any advice for where to go from here would be wonderful, it seems all the companies I was interested in require a Jr dev to have 3-7 years of professional experience and a Bachelors in CS or Electrical Engineering.

  • Seth W.

2 Answers

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

I started using team treehouse last January. My first and current job is for a small local agency doing client work. Even though the company I work with now is an agency, I've had to learn and use many new technologies. Front end was what I was most comfortable with coming in, but now I cover the full stack front to back on a daily basis.

In my experience startups need their employees to encompass a wide variety of skills. Money is tight when you first start a company and people want their developers to be able to handle anything they can throw at them. My advice to you would be to look for an agency and start there.

Don't let "bachelor's degree required" or "5 years experience for a junior developer" deter you from applying. Just be honest about your skills and most companies will still interview you. If they don't either they don't have the money to pay you or they aren't worth working with anyway because it won't be a very good learning environment.

I needed a mentor and a paycheck to take care of my bills while I learn. I found it, and so can you.

Best of luck

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points

Thank you so much for the moral boost and advice Michael Fish ! I will look into agencies more and see what I can find!

  • Seth W.
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

It will feel impossible until it's done. You got this man

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
1,878 Points

Thanks again Micheal, you keep on keepin on! Can't wait till I'm living my dream job.

  • Seth