Apr 27, 2021
My Journey as a Software Developer
First Interview (Not entirely true)
A fresh graduate of a well-known IT college, with a degree in hand, starts to look for a job, little does he know the so-called jobs he applies to do not even ask him about the course, let alone the marks he got. Nevertheless, he continues to look for it; and one day finds a company. The company calls him for an interview; excitedly, he hangs up the phone and tells his family; they want him at someplace sometime tomorrow for an interview. The family congratulates him for finally getting a chance to go work for a company. He leaves for the interview scheduled for some time; and finally gets to someplace, waiting in line for the interviewer to well; interview him!. The interviewer asks where he lived, and how he planned to commute to the office, and then asks about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and steadily asks about JavaScript (JS), and finally asks, when will you be able to start. With lit-up eyes, he answers, tomorrow sounds good to me.
He happily returns home to his family and tells them he got selected for the job. Once again, everyone congratulates him for his accomplishment and his mother brimming with joy; asks him about his working hours, to which he replies by saying from some time to some other time; that’s too long says the mother. Following the excitement, his father being nonchalant, asks how much is your salary? The atmosphere suddenly changed, all the excitement disappeared, the company never told him his salary. The company was a start-up and hired him as an intern for six months; there was no pay; he had to use his own money for transportation, lunch, and according to his work hours, breakfast. To add insult to injury, he had to give the most valuable thing that he could give, his time. Most of the people I know go through this at the beginning of their careers as software developers. They work for FREE. The only thing the company gives them for all their hard work is a mediocre experience letter, which is not fair. Instead of earning money, they are losing money. The one benefiting from this is the company; granted the interns do get some real-world experience but 6 months of their lives are worth much more than that.
