Be polite and professional in your interview.
They were extremely friendly and very accommodating. I am also grateful they saw me as valuable and look forward to helping them kick butt in the industry.
Take a chance no matter what the listed job requirements are. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by offering them something of value. YOU.
She needs to be constantly coding. No downtime. I have no college degree but got a fantastic remote job, and have been in it 3 years now - all it took was self teaching myself to code for 3 or 4 years (the reason I dropped out is cause I would skip class to build my video game). Anyways the point is you have to get really good at coding to be hired.
She needs to get good. Computer degree means nothing.
She needs to learn industry relevant skills. Look for programming bootcamps near you; they will teach industry relevant skills.
She's doing that! She's already got a bunch of industry standard things in her portfolio, but no one will look at it because she doesn't have a company on her resume. She always is working on another coding project. She codes pretty well, can do C, Java, Python, etc. Completed her degree.
So true. Programming is an art that takes years to learn. I don't know how much the process can be accelerated by training classes.
My hubby is an IT manager who has been programming since he was 12. Learned C code programming doing text based games in college while getting his Comp degree. He looks at Coding Boot camp on resumes when hiring and throws them in the trash. They just don't measure up to what he needs done as he needs a lot of OOP and they don't do that there.
Ironically, he can't hire his girl because of nepotism. He says she is a B level programmer. My kid has played around in Linux since she was 3-4 years old.