Hi all! I’ve been meaning to write my own success story for a long time, but I’ve always put it off. Today I will try to describe everything that has happened to me in the last couple of years. I hope this won't be a long read. My name is Alexey, I am now 25 years old. It all started with the fact that in 2019 I graduated from the Faculty of Economics with honors in a small town in the Rostov region. While still studying, I completed a pre-graduation internship at a company in the HR department, where I was offered a job after graduation. Actually, that’s where I ended up, moved to Rostov, worked for two and a half weeks as a recruiter and happily quit, realizing that, it turns out, I don’t know what I want to do and I’m very stressed about it. After my dismissal, I returned to my city on the same day to do some soul-searching and look for another job. After some time, I applied to the Entertainment Center, where they offered me a vacancy as an inspector at the Chamber of Control and Accounts, where I got a job, also completed a couple of weeks of internship and said goodbye. After quitting for the second time, I completely floated and got lost. It was as if there was a realization that I was not prepared for the fact that most people spend their entire lives in a job they don’t like. In short, it was bad and sad. One evening I went to Twitch, turned on the gnumme stream, watched and decided to write in the chat something like: “Hey guys. Tell me, how did you understand what you would like to do? I’m having difficulties with this.” And a man answered me and suggested that I write to him on VK. He said that he left Russia and lives in the Czech Republic, completed his master’s degree, at first worked in a bakery, but ended up working as a developer in some IT company. Naturally, he sent me a link to javarush and said that at one time he started studying here. In general, I suggested trying it. Already in 2020, I got a job as a consultant at a Russian bank, selling banking products, ecosystem products, and so on, you understand everything. I worked quietly like this until the first restrictions due to Covid began to be introduced. We continued to work even during the lockdown, but there was much more time after work, and at some point I received a message in the mail that javarush had a discount on an annual subscription (in my opinion, 6,000, instead of 18,000). I immediately formalized it, from the first day I started studying, solving problems and trying to understand what was going on here. In parallel to all this, that developer from the Czech Republic offered his help, just like that, for free. He mentored me throughout the journey. As I remember, the first 10 levels flew away in about a month, the collections were the hardest, I constantly climbed into the comments, looked for some hints, gave up and looked at the solutions posted on Github and then cursed myself. I think this is familiar to many here. This all continued until approximately the end of August, working full time and studying after work hours and on weekends. I don’t remember what level I was at, but after about 25-28 levels I got the feeling that topics were covered in passing, you quickly forgot all of it and never used it in practice. Gradually I began to look for other sources of information, watched a whole course on the Golovach Courses YouTube channel, some videos on the alishev channel, and often returned to the articles of Professor Hans Noodles. In general, the information began to somehow settle down and some kind of understanding appeared. By the end of 2020, I bought another course on Udemy on Java, SQL and Spring from Zaur Tregulov, went through the top courses and was preparing to start going for interviews at the beginning of 2021. It’s clear that for the first couple of months they didn’t even call me or invite me to an interview. And if someone responded, then they sent me a task that I could not cope with even theoretically. The impostor syndrome grew by leaps and bounds. In parallel with all this, I quickly burned out in sales within a year, as if I had fallen into a juicer. As a result, I decided to start calling the HR department of the bank myself, where I work. I just called and said: “Hello, I see you have such and such vacancies, can I try?” I was offered an interview with a developer in which they would give me feedback on my knowledge, tell me what needs to be improved, or if everything was ok, they would offer me starting positions. I passed the interview, answered most of the questions, answered some incorrectly, but overall, not bad. The developer wrote a comment about me to the HR department that I was highly motivated and could be hired for a starting position, or they could offer me to complete my studies at an internal school and after training they could take me to a slightly higher position. Soon I passed the entrance exams, got into school, listened to lectures, did homework and at the same time continued to look for a job. Once I was even invited for an interview, which I failed at the stage of the algorithmic problem :) It was necessary to display the specified line in reverse order: "Interviews are awesome!" = "awesome! are Interviews". I was upset, but I wanted to start working so much that I wrote to my HR that I was ready to consider working as a tester if there were any offers. And literally within a week I was offered an interview with the load testing team. I didn't even know this happened, to be honest. The interview took place during the working day at my place of work; I simply went to a quiet place with my phone and headphones and tried to answer questions. At the end, I was given a homework assignment that I must complete and send to them by the end of next week for the final decision. A few days later, the manager called me, asked about my financial expectations, said that the team gave good feedback and the task was left to be completed. The task was divided into 3 parts: Java code, SQL and LoadRunner. Without details: I quickly completed part 1, Googled and spent a long time composing queries for part 2, and did practically nothing for part 3. In this form, I sent the final version and waited. It was as if I understood that I would most likely be accepted, but I was still very nervous and the option to “continue to work here” simply did not exist. The HR department called me back about a week later and I received my offer. Everything was agreed upon, I had to deal with all sorts of bureaucracy, and on June 1, 2021, I arrived at my new place of work to receive equipment. Since then I have been doing load testing. In general, it’s still hard for me to believe that I once went to Twitch, wrote a message in the chat, and ended up in IT. :) I must say, after six months of work, I still feel that I am very weak and I still need to study and study, but all this is super interesting. As a result, it took me 13 months of preparation from scratch and 3-4 interviews. JavaRush for a person with zero knowledge is a godsend, thank you very much. My biggest thanks go to Alexey Barulin , that developer from the Czech Republic who took hold of me and didn’t let me go. Nothing would have happened without you. If you have any questions, write, I will answer :) @nihkela
My name is Alexey, I am now 25 years old. It all started with the fact that in 2019 I graduated from the Faculty of Economics with honors in a small town in the Rostov region. While still studying, I completed a pre-graduation internship at a company in the HR department, where I was offered a job after graduation. Actually, that’s where I ended up, moved to Rostov, worked for two and a half weeks as a recruiter and happily quit, realizing that, it turns out, I don’t know what I want to do and I’m very stressed about it. After my dismissal, I returned to my city on the same day to do some soul-searching and look for another job. After some time, I applied to the Entertainment Center, where they offered me a vacancy as an inspector at the Chamber of Control and Accounts, where I got a job, also completed a couple of weeks of internship and said goodbye. After quitting for the second time, I completely floated and got lost. It was as if there was a realization that I was not prepared for the fact that most people spend their entire lives in a job they don’t like. In short, it was bad and sad. One evening I went to Twitch, turned on the gnumme stream, watched and decided to write in the chat something like: “Hey guys. Tell me, how did you understand what you would like to do? I’m having difficulties with this.” And a man answered me and suggested that I write to him on VK. He said that he left Russia and lives in the Czech Republic, completed his master’s degree, at first worked in a bakery, but ended up working as a developer in some IT company. Naturally, he sent me a link to javarush and said that at one time he started studying here. In general, I suggested trying it. 
Already in 2020, I got a job as a consultant at a Russian bank, selling banking products, ecosystem products, and so on, you understand everything. I worked quietly like this until the first restrictions due to Covid began to be introduced. We continued to work even during the lockdown, but there was much more time after work, and at some point I received a message in the mail that javarush had a discount on an annual subscription (in my opinion, 6,000, instead of 18,000). I immediately formalized it, from the first day I started studying, solving problems and trying to understand what was going on here. In parallel to all this, that developer from the Czech Republic offered his help, just like that, for free. He mentored me throughout the journey. As I remember, the first 10 levels flew away in about a month, the collections were the hardest, I constantly climbed into the comments, looked for some hints, gave up and looked at the solutions posted on Github and then cursed myself. I think this is familiar to many here. This all continued until approximately the end of August, working full time and studying after work hours and on weekends. I don’t remember what level I was at, but after about 25-28 levels I got the feeling that topics were covered in passing, you quickly forgot all of it and never used it in practice. Gradually I began to look for other sources of information, watched a whole course on the Golovach Courses YouTube channel, some videos on the alishev channel, and often returned to the articles of Professor Hans Noodles. In general, the information began to somehow settle down and some kind of understanding appeared. By the end of 2020, I bought another course on Udemy on Java, SQL and Spring from Zaur Tregulov, went through the top courses and was preparing to start going for interviews at the beginning of 2021. It’s clear that for the first couple of months they didn’t even call me or invite me to an interview. And if someone responded, then they sent me a task that I could not cope with even theoretically. The impostor syndrome grew by leaps and bounds. In parallel with all this, I quickly burned out in sales within a year, as if I had fallen into a juicer. As a result, I decided to start calling the HR department of the bank myself, where I work. I just called and said: “Hello, I see you have such and such vacancies, can I try?” I was offered an interview with a developer in which they would give me feedback on my knowledge, tell me what needs to be improved, or if everything was ok, they would offer me starting positions. I passed the interview, answered most of the questions, answered some incorrectly, but overall, not bad. The developer wrote a comment about me to the HR department that I was highly motivated and could be hired for a starting position, or they could offer me to complete my studies at an internal school and after training they could take me to a slightly higher position. Soon I passed the entrance exams, got into school, listened to lectures, did homework and at the same time continued to look for a job. Once I was even invited for an interview, which I failed at the stage of the algorithmic problem :) It was necessary to display the specified line in reverse order: "Interviews are awesome!" = "awesome! are Interviews". I was upset, but I wanted to start working so much that I wrote to my HR that I was ready to consider working as a tester if there were any offers. And literally within a week I was offered an interview with the load testing team. I didn't even know this happened, to be honest. 
The interview took place during the working day at my place of work; I simply went to a quiet place with my phone and headphones and tried to answer questions. At the end, I was given a homework assignment that I must complete and send to them by the end of next week for the final decision. A few days later, the manager called me, asked about my financial expectations, said that the team gave good feedback and the task was left to be completed. The task was divided into 3 parts: Java code, SQL and LoadRunner. Without details: I quickly completed part 1, Googled and spent a long time composing queries for part 2, and did practically nothing for part 3. In this form, I sent the final version and waited. It was as if I understood that I would most likely be accepted, but I was still very nervous and the option to “continue to work here” simply did not exist. The HR department called me back about a week later and I received my offer. Everything was agreed upon, I had to deal with all sorts of bureaucracy, and on June 1, 2021, I arrived at my new place of work to receive equipment. Since then I have been doing load testing. In general, it’s still hard for me to believe that I once went to Twitch, wrote a message in the chat, and ended up in IT. :) I must say, after six months of work, I still feel that I am very weak and I still need to study and study, but all this is super interesting. As a result, it took me 13 months of preparation from scratch and 3-4 interviews. JavaRush for a person with zero knowledge is a godsend, thank you very much. My biggest thanks go to Alexey Barulin , that developer from the Czech Republic who took hold of me and didn’t let me go. Nothing would have happened without you. If you have any questions, write, I will answer :) @nihkela
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