>>5833624Anything you've done for school that was a decent sized project is probably fair game to talk about on a resume or in an interview. I talked up my game dev final project as experience programming while working with a cross-functional team. Act passionate about what you do. Stress how much you like learning new things/tech (I hope you do). Everyone I meet has stressed that saying "i don't know how to do that, but I guess im about to learn!" is better than pretending to know things.
Ignore "5 years of experience in blahblahblah" in listings, it's bullshit put in there by HR. the actual interview will be with technical people, and they can usually tell if you have what it takes.
Programming skills carry over between languages, platforms, and frameworks. The specifics may change but don't doubt yourself, once you know how to write code you can learn the rest.
Not that you can control it, necessarily, but some places will give you a code challenge to complete on your own, which can give a really good opportunity to show what you can do with some time to think and even self-teach if necessary. Whiteboard interviews are the worst, and if you have to do one I'm sorry, but if a whiteboard interview is what knocks you out of the running for a job, then you honestly probably don't want to work there.
>>5833640Its true, this can happen. But unless you're joining a company that has a staff of working full time on internal software, you're going to be dealing with clients, or at least internal management, and people skills are needed. I dunno what quirks you mean, but the guy I replied to mentioned being NEET, and declared a solid educational path "a meme" because he wasn't good enough to get a job. I have no sympathy for that, unless he's disabled. Autistic folks can and do get hired for programming jobs, if that's what you meant.
