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Tbh though a lot of companies I've been at don't hire juniors at all really. This is terrible of the companies.

Agreed. Genuine networking (not artificial schmoozing) is what broke me into the tech scene.

I had one tech recruiter inviting me for an interview, because she said she liked one of the published side projects of mine 🙈 But it can also be dangerous, if that’s what’s taken as the measurement of “how good you are” - learned that the hard way as well 🤷‍♂️

Side projects are really valuable when done right. I skipped junior level entirely, having spent a few years in a students club building web apps with other folks. It's not the same as working, but you can learn a lot this way.

I was addicted to playing osu! for a while and I want to play it with stylus. I don't want to pay for another wacom so I made vtablet. I learn flutter, go and windows api with it. These are not really perfect, but I am proud of them and HRs can feel my passion for this job from it.

Oh.. to get experience that way when you're not hired. Yeah kinda makes sense. Helping around even a bit can be a major step up for everyone btw.

it’s equally bad for experienced folks, even one’s that have oss experience. it’s a question of luck for most people at this point oss shows experience but will still not get you an interview since a lot of companies don’t really care about it.

Sounds like, he is cold-mailing them 💀.