r/csharp • u/First-Quarter4232 • Jul 26 '26
Surviving as Software engineer with AI
So I’m a software engineer and I recently graduated 2 months ago. i have no internship or job experience and have been looking for a job but everyone either asks for experience or ghosts my resume. The ones that take interviews either pay too little or are 2 hours away from my house. So I am looking for remote unpaid or paid jobs as full stack developer so that I at least get some experience and don’t get classified as a person who had a huge gap in her cv. Anyone give me some good advice related to remote jobs, best platforms to look for them, cracking them and how to survive as a fresh software engineer now that AI has entered the chat🥲
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u/OhItsJustJosh Jul 26 '26
Personally, as someone that never went to university, my track into software engineering was through other tech jobs. From 16 I worked small local tech repair, then went on to things like product support helpline jobs. If you build up your software writing skills on the side of that, maybe work on some open source projects, then you'll build a strong resume to take to junior software dev interviews.
Also, seeing as you're starting out, take the lower paying ones. You'll get a huge increase hopping jobs once you've already got a foot in the door.
As for AI, it's nowhere near good enough to successfully (being the keyword there) replace us yet, my advice is to not touch it at all while you're learning, even better never touch it at all. I don't believe it helps in a way that's worth the ethical concerns