Ask HN: How to get a job when you suck at coding?
I have a strong feeling I suck at coding. I have a B.S. degree in CS from an average school in the USA. 1) I have a bunch of projects, but they're terribly boring and have ugly looking code. For example, I spent a year working on an ecommerce site. It does what it needs to do, but there were no smart decisions behind the back end. I never had to use design patterns nor data structures. I just pieced it together. 2) I have a lot of trouble with "HackerRank" style problems. I just finished one, an hour ago, called Codility. Even though I passed all the shown test cases, the final results showed that I got the following scores 13%/95%/0%. The 0% was a debugging problem that required a max of 2 line changes. I have absolutely no clue how I got a 0% there. I've been trying to get a job anywhere, doing some programming, but all the rejections have destroyed me. As
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I have a strong feeling I suck at coding. I have a B.S. degree in CS from an average school in the USA. 1) I have a bunch of projects, but they're terribly boring and have ugly looking code. For example, I spent a year working on an ecommerce site. It does what it needs to d
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- anon23422
- Ended
- 2017
- Source
- hackernews