Get Django, Get Hired - An opinionated guide to getting the best job, for the best salary, fast
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The document is a comprehensive guide on securing a job in Django development, covering essential skills, preparation steps, and the job application process. It details learning paths for programming languages, frameworks, database management, and specialized knowledge areas. The guide emphasizes the importance of understanding job requirements, crafting a strong resume, and effective negotiation strategies.
Get Django, Get Hired - An opinionated guide to getting the best job, for the best salary, fast
- 1. Get Django, Get Hired An opinionated guide to getting the best job, for the best salary, fast.
- 2. Section 0: Why? • Knowledge vs Experience • Confidence • Swagger • Tool Chest
- 3. Section 1: Learning Look through job boards Create an outline of skills Research tutorials and libraries for each skill Create a personal project Integrate each skill learned into your personal project
- 4. Section 2: Preparation Create a github repo for side project Create a dev account on major social networks Create a dev account on amazon, heroku, cloud providers Keep notes
- 6. Section 3: Learning Basics Language & Framework Models/QuerySets Views Auth Templates Testing
- 7. Learning: Language & Framework Python: basic modules, language Django: basic framework features Python: standard library, collections, itertools Django: DRY, contrib, utils, features, docs Python: internals Django: deep knowledge of 3rd party lib ecosystem
- 8. Learning: Models/Querysets Build basic models, relations Query Performance, table structure, usage patterns Deep profiling, extra/raw SQL, alternative ORM
- 9. Learning: Views function views specialized Class-Based Views(CBV), mixins & generics, forms, uploads exotic content-types, API views
- 10. Learning: Auth local passwords OAuth, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), API keys exotic 3rd party providers/endpoints
- 11. Learning: Templates basic syntax: blocks, tags, context, extends, includes building templatetags, filters, context processors incorporating 3rd party engines like jinja2
- 12. Learning: Testing No tests (oh noooo) Nose Jenkins, Continuous Integration, git integration, etc
- 13. Section 3: Learning Basics Language & Framework Models/QuerySets Views Auth Templates Testing Not-So-Basics Databases 3rd party data sources/APIs RESTful APIs Tasks & Email NoSQL and Alt. Backends Hosting/Deployment/Assets Search Frontend
- 14. Learning: Databases Basic setup (create, drop, auth, etc) Query optimization, caching Routing, replication
- 15. Learning: 3rd Party Data Sources/APIs Basic requests using 3rd party libs Deep site integration, error handling, tests Streaming, high-performance and/or async integration
- 16. Learning: RESTful APIs returning JSON responses using basic REST framework (Django-REST- Framework, etc) Advanced REST interface w/custom auth, api keys, etc
- 17. Learning: Tasks & Email synchronous async w/RQ async w/Celery or Amazon SQS
- 18. Learning: NoSQL & Alt. Backends None memcache, redis MongoDB, Cassandra, PouchDB, DynamoDB, Kinesis
- 19. Learning: Hosting/Deployment/Assets Local only, or Heroku w/effortless setup Production system, manual setup (gunicorn, nginx, local storage, fabric) Production system, scaled bigtime (uwsgi, nginx, shared file storage, CDN, CI)
- 20. Learning: Search Database queries Whoosh (python solution) Solr/Elasticsearch/Cloudsearch (externally- hosted solution)
- 21. Learning: Frontend Basic HTML/CSS/JS Bootstrap or Foundation, jQuery Sass, Angular/React/Ember/Backbone, Grunt/Gulp
- 23. Section 4: Specialties • DevOps • Big Data • Machine Learning • Web Scraping • GeoLocation • AWS & Cloud Providers • Social Networks • Real-time Apps
- 24. Section 5: Getting The Job
- 25. Section 5: Getting The Job • Review job requirements • Resume • Interview • Negotiation
- 26. Getting The Job: Job Requirements • Ignore the BS filler requirements • Focus on core technologies they use • Come prepared to talk about their requirements • Prepare questions in advance. Their business model, their tech, their goals, their past employees
- 27. Getting The Job: Resume • Focus on real-world, production usage of your skills, technologies used, APIs • (But doesn’t have to be commercial) • Tune resume to highlight the exact things they asked for, using the words/phrases they used • Update your LinkedIn
- 28. Getting The Job: Interview • Ask what is most important to the, then speak to those points • Talk about overlap: needs/experience • Familiarity with tech landscape as a whole • Push back against riddles, quizzes, “gotcha” questions, things that don’t reflect real-world challenges
- 29. Getting The Job: Negotiation • Don’t feel guilty about money. Companies won’t feel guilty about asking for overtime. • Research comparable job positions, then ask for that much (at least). Bring examples. • Research their funding beforehand, in case they claim to be broke • Slightly overcharge so they can negotiate down.
Editor's Notes
- #30: Know what other companies are paying for someone with your experience, then charge that. Slightly overcharge so they can negotiate down. Negotiate their funding beforehand, in case they claim to be broke Come with examples of companies of a similar size paying a similar amount. As a technique, agree that the first month will be probationary at a lower rate, and after 30 days they can bump your rate to your preferred one if they think you’re worth it
- #31: Resources https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python