Dossier
- Who: Vitaly Evtekhov
- Worked as: bartender
- Place of residence: Stary Oskol, Russia
- Age at the start of Java training: 22
- First job as a programmer: a year after starting training
Original success story
Job search and shadow of doubt
Learning was not always easy. Sometimes I wanted to give up everything, sometimes - on the contrary, it seemed that I didn’t have enough and needed more. After three months of training ( level 30 ), I started looking for a job . Two months of searching for vacancies in neighboring cities (Belgorod, Voronezh) on HeadHunter and other sites were exhausting. There simply weren’t any vacancies that suited me. People with experience were needed everywhere, and even if I had the necessary knowledge, I was refused. To be honest, at some point I gave up. The crisis was in full swing, the dollar was growing, and I had already stopped believing in my successful transformation into a programmer. So I decided to quit and move, at least as a system administrator, but to a larger city. And suddenly, at the very last moment, I was lucky: I found a vacancy without any work experience requirement. I decided to send them my resume through Headhunter , they responded to it and called me. I explained that I was finalizing the last few days and would be moving to their city next week. We agreed on a date and time for the meeting.There is work!
The interview was very specific: there were no difficult questions on Java that required any deep knowledge of the language. They didn't offer me any tricky logic puzzles either. This small company ( essentially a startup, and the people in it were not the most experienced ) needed an intern to do part of the work. Therefore, the guys tried more to find out personal qualities and only briefly glanced at the points indicated in the resume. After the conversation, I was given a task:- Write a class that reads certain data from an XML file.
- Localize and display a message with support for two languages of information within XML (Russian, English).
- Correctly format the code.
Six months
At the time of writing this review, it was my sixth month working for the company. I am very happy with my new profession and life! I would like to tell everyone who is learning Java Rush the following: everything that is written on the site is true. Every motivating slogan, every statement - all this is justified and supported by real experience. Yes, sometimes it will be difficult, but you need to climb further. Thanks to JavaRush, I not only changed my profession and found myself, but moved to another city. Thanks to the creators, thanks to the authors of articles with interview questions and a list of technologies to study, thanks to the community. I believe that Java Rush is the best solution at the moment for teaching people programming in Java ( and other languages do not have courses at this level at all ). Previously, I would never have believed that in order to change my life so dramatically it would be enough to earn $80 , money for the first month of living in a new city and register for Java Rush . " Java Rush : learn once - use anywhere ." To anyone and everyone who wants to learn Java , my answer is one - Java Rush !PS : A year and a half later
15 months have passed since I wrote my “ Success Story ”. During this time, I managed to learn even more and also change companies. Let me start with an important note: if you think programming is an easy job ( whether physically or otherwise ), then you are seriously mistaken. I took part in hardcore business trips ( 4 hours of sleep a day ), when the product was sawed “ on the lap ” of the customer. I also had to manage a fairly large number of completely different projects, performing the roles of not only a developer, but a tester, consultant, technical support specialist, and so on. I realized that this state of affairs was due to the catastrophically small size of the company. After working in this mode for some time, I felt that I was running out of steam. In addition, despite the psychological support of managers, my financial situation did not change. I worked on all holidays, for long hours.I'm definitely grateful for my first company. Thanks to her and this wildly difficult regime, I quickly learned many new things ( some Enterprise technologies, front-end design, studied a bunch of JS libraries and several HTML frameworks, deepened my understanding of Java ). At some point, I realized that my skills had seriously grown and I was no longer ready to work for the same money ( I had a really meager salary ) in such hardcore conditions. I asked my boss about my promotion, while simultaneously creating a resume and posting it on HeadHunter . Then began a series of various interviews. The managers didn’t want me to leave, but they never made an offer. By chance, an HR manager at Wrike found my resume and offered to consider the vacancy of a QA-Automation Engineer . I successfully passed the interview ( a little better/a little worse than in other companies ). I was impressed by the speed of HR ! I had barely walked 200 meters from the office when they called me and said that they would send me an offer within an hour. As a result, I was assessed at a radically different salary amount, and also (as I realized later) invited to one of the best companies in Voronezh with an excellent reputation. The work of a programmer never ceases to amaze me. At Wrike , I discovered that the IT world is even larger and more diverse than I thought. I learned that there are many types of IT specialists, and employees can be treated very differently... opportunities opened up for me on a different scale. Today my life as a programmer means a free schedule, ample opportunities for self-realization, a wonderful team, interesting tasks and, of course, financial independence. Don't give up, develop and love what you do, work with full dedication, and you will definitely find yourself in a world that will always surprise you. Thank you so much Java Rush ! For 30 levels that changed my life .If you think you are worth more, stick to your line.
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