With Rust growing into more tech stacks, companies are now considering senior developers with ZERO Rust experience but already confident in languages like C++ or Go — as long as you’re genuinely interested in learning of course! 🚀 Great way to demonstrate your interest and (importantly to the company) that you can pick up new things quickly could be GitHub contributions! Many companies are interested in seeing some ‘proof-of-work’ instead of long, drawn-out live coding sessions. Otherwise, completing online courses from Udemy/Coursera or adding some interesting books you’ve read into a small, visible section of your profile or maybe even your CV might help you to demonstrate your passion (emphasis on SMALL - shouldn’t be more than 3-5 maximum otherwise the CV would look too much like a list and the manager will skim over it instead). 📙 Could even get a small reference from an experienced Rustacean/mentor you’ve worked with (make sure to use a sentence to highlight key takeaways if adding to a resume!). 🦀 Any other ways/links to resources that you would recommend to a senior developer looking to break into the Rust scene?👇 #Rust #Learn #SoftwareDevelopment
The Exercism Rust track is a wonderful resource for studying Rust for free https://exercism.org/tracks/rust. It's a nice addition to the Rustlings excercises https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings.
Alex Jahani, it's good to hear information like this. This is a bad view of hiring just senior rust developers because finding them in the wild is not easy. :)