Hi, I recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science. I’ve been having a difficult time trying to find a job, but I finally found one as a deployment engineer where I would be dealing with shell scripting, AWS, SQL queries, and some C# framework related stuff.

At the end of the day I would like to go into DevOps, cyber security, or programming.

Is this role a good way to get my foot in the door and kickstarting my career and would it help me achieve my goal for any of those roles?

  • annoyed-onion
    4•1 year ago

    Yep, fair, is all good experience but your first job is really just to get something on your CV that says “Yes, I’m employable. I can work in a professional environment, and I can work well with others”.

    Beyond that specific skills don’t matter as much as your attitude: willingness to learn, demonstrable interest in subject area, open source contributions, e.t.c.

    Good luck though, sounds like decent scope there with that role to explore a few different things to help you figure out what you want to specialise in!

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•1 year ago

      Thanks. And I do have about a years worth of software engineering internship experience (that sadly didn’t have any openings) but feel that having an actual career would be 10x better than an internship for experience.