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3 Months and 600 Job Applications Later: How Fredrik Became a Junior Developer in Record Time with Scrimba
🎙 About the episode
Meet Fredrik Ridderfalk from Sweden 🇸🇪! He went from not knowing any code to landing a Junior Developer role in just 3 months! Having studied before, Fredrik knew exactly how to structure his learning on Scrimba so that it worked best for him. Thanks to trying some other jobs in the past, he also had a good idea of how to crack the coding interview. In this episode, Fredrik imparts the knowledge that got him hired in record time to YOU.
🔗 Connect with Fredrik Ridderfalk
- 👨🏻💼 LinkedIn
- 🌐 Website
- 👩🚀 GitHub
- 🤖 Deepity#4791 on the Scrimba Discord
⏰ Timestamps
- Introduction (0:00)
- Creating your own Junior Developer roadmap (03:37)
- How Fredrik became job-ready in 3 months (06:13)
- How to remember what you learn better (08:08)
- Applying to 600 jobs (11:01)
- Remember: A job ad is a wish list not a must-have list (12:48)
- Accidentally being interviewed for Senior roles (14:18)
- Fredrik lost faith in tailoring cover letters to the job - is it really necessary? (15:35)
- Building original projects to stand out (17:18)
- Expanding on Scrimba Career Path projects (20:49)
- What the interview process looked like specifically (24:15)
- What does a Junior Developer do now they’re hired? (26:42)
- Getting paid to learn (28:22)
🧰 Resources mentioned
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