Internships

Breaking in through internships and co-ops. 1 story.

Internships1 min read
Self-Taught Dev Built a Template Portfolio and Landed a UK Internship in 2014
A self-taught developer in England got his first front-end internship by converting free design templates into live sites and hosting a portfolio on GitHub Pages. The initial offer was retracted, but the employer connected him with other companies actively hiring junior developers. The role exposed him to backend development, DevOps, and Linux, pulling him well beyond front-end work.