I am a CS student in The Netherlands. Here it is pretty common for students to have a part-time job. Most of them just work in the supermarket or in a restaurant, but I thought it would be nice to put my programming skills to good use.
After some searching and a couple of interviews, the main obstacles I found are:
1. Many companies underestimate your skills and want to give you trivial and boring tasks (e.g. find and escape all SQL queries in an ASP codebase, ugh)
2. Big companies don't offer part-time jobs for professionals, let alone students.
3. Some companies have whole teams of incompetent people (e.g. a friend of mine gives lessons to one of those teams! Yes... it is the same one of #1)
4. Startups don't have the previous problems, but are often unable to offer a good salary.
5. Because I am a student, my network is pretty limited.
Should I just accept #1 and hope for an improvement in the future?
Do you think #5 could be solved by going to meetups or something like that?
After some searching and a couple of interviews, the main obstacles I found are:
1. Many companies underestimate your skills and want to give you trivial and boring tasks (e.g. find and escape all SQL queries in an ASP codebase, ugh)
2. Big companies don't offer part-time jobs for professionals, let alone students.
3. Some companies have whole teams of incompetent people (e.g. a friend of mine gives lessons to one of those teams! Yes... it is the same one of #1)
4. Startups don't have the previous problems, but are often unable to offer a good salary.
5. Because I am a student, my network is pretty limited.
Should I just accept #1 and hope for an improvement in the future?
Do you think #5 could be solved by going to meetups or something like that?