Strategic Networking For Software Engineers - Dev Leader Weekly 92

TL; DR:

No, networking isn't a silver bullet.
Yes, you should absolutely be doing it.!!
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Strategic Networking For Software Engineers

If you're trying to break into software engineering right now -- whether you're in college, just finished a bootcamp, or teaching yourself -- you’re probably feeling the pressure.

You're building projects.
You're grinding LeetCode.
You're sending out dozens (or hundreds) of applications.

And still... crickets.

Meanwhile, you watch classmates or random connections land jobs even though, by their own admission, they can barely code. Well, at least that was the case in the Reddit post I responded to on Code Commute:

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