A Self-Taught Developer

Coderdot
3 min readNov 28, 2020

It is story of a small boy living in 21st Century. When he was in high school, he heard about coding. But he was thinking that what the hell the coding is ? So he started googling the things he want to research in……

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Hello Coders, Myself Coderdot and today we are going to discuss about a story of a self-taught developer who land his job at Google as a software developer with struggle and dedication. So lets get started🔥🔥🔥…

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So as the story goes, he was googling through various things like What is coding ? , How can coding help us ?,etc. After researching about various concepts in coding, he decided to start coding. He saw various Youtube videos and read articles about coding and programming. He started his career by making a website. He make a static website using HTML and CSS. Due to which he got excited and started making various websites. After static websites, he learn a back-end framework to boost his websites. He make them dynamic websites and post them on various platforms.

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He learned and grow. After learning the various concepts of coding he want to learn, he started applying for new jobs or interns. But no one was calling him for a job. So he again started googling about why he is not getting a job……… He got the solution on it that only learning is not enough. We must have some real-world projects made to show them his skills. So he started making various clones like Spotify-clone , Netflix-clone, etc. Then he got some calls as a job offering. But he was getting rejected all the time.

Rejection by an company

But he didn’t loose his dedication. He read and saw all the interviews of famous companies and started learning about the various concepts of giving an interview to someone. So now he was ready to give any interview. He got a call and gave them interview. After some days, he got a call that he was selected as a developer. He was rejuvenating his feelings with a big party.

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He worked at that company for almost 2 years. Now he started to applying at famous companies like Tesla , Facebook, Uber, etc. He got a call from Uber that he had a interview. He gave the interview but he got rejected. He become unhappy with this rejection. He research on the reason of the rejection and again started to master the various skills. It was a summer delight. There was a Google Event named ‘ Google Summer of Code ’ also known as GsoC. He participated it and contribute to various repositories. When the event gto over,he got an internship in Google for contributing various solutions. He get astonished after hearing this. He worked as an intern at Google for around 1 year. After working as intern at Google, he applied as a developer at Google. Due to his experience of internship and his dedication, he got a job at Google!!!🔥🔥

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Thanks for Reading…👏👏🙌 Meet you in next article..🤗

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Coderdot

Hi Myself Coderdot. I am a self-taught developer having knowledge about various languages like React JS, Python, Django, C++,etc.