You Don’t Have to Be a Unicorn: Landing Your First Tech Job as a Self-Taught Programmer

Melissa Schmitz
11 min readApr 4, 2020

Make the most of all of your experiences.

Just as I was about to graduate college for physics and chemistry, I had shelved the idea of graduate school until I decided what I really wanted to study. I spent most of college doing purely academic activities, meaning research instead of internships. And like many…

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Melissa Schmitz

Research engineer in emerging tech (prototyping XR, UX, autonomy). ✦ http://linktr.ee/melissa_xr