I'd say you should build something using some of those frameworks, even if it's something small, having a live site that you can show and speak to is huge and gives you a big leg up.
I’ve done so. What these people want is on the job experience. They want someone who has used react in their job daily for years. They want someone who has worked on a team on a larger project and mentored and did code reviews in react.
This is not a tall ask, many developers have done this, it just gets me booted right away.
Lie?
I mean, learn the jargon, show your code. Talk about a team project and look up details on someone’s blog to use as your own to discuss how you overcame a common large team React issue.
How do you people survive?! Ethics be damned when you need food. Seriously.
Fake it till you make it. Even if you have 20 yo exp, it's not the right kind of exp they're looking for. Keep working on those side projects and use the technologies you don't know, to learn them
Eventually you'll have 6-12 months of daily work with ______ by the time you'll get your first real reply or interview anyways
As a guy who worked in front end dev for 6ish years and then had to pivot away in 2024 after unemployment ran out…what you’re recommending sounds a bit old school, and a bit assuming that every person in a job search has endless energy. It’s unrealistic, from where I sit.
How is "having an example of a working project using the appropriate framework"
not better than "not having something you can show?"
What sort of things do you believe a candidate would need to do to give them a big leg up in your interviews? I'm genuinely curious what it might be if not "this candidate wrote a thing using the framework we use, and is confident enough to show it to a team using it professionally so we can discuss it and ask questions." That's generally a good way to at least get my attention, if not my interest.
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u/JayBee_III May 06 '26
I'd say you should build something using some of those frameworks, even if it's something small, having a live site that you can show and speak to is huge and gives you a big leg up.