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Hi Bertil! Nice to meet you.

If you don't have any work experience, in my opinion, you need to apply to junior or entry-level positions.

There is no amount of side projects that can replace professional experience.

It's very important to know that managers and recruiters do not consider "years of knowing how to code" the same as "years of experience working in a tech team".

That said, you could definitely supplement your experience by freelancing in the meantime. I've hired four junior developers, and two of them started by freelancing.

I never had to hire a junior without any "paid experience" because frankly the market is competitive. Companies get to choose from hundreds of junior candidates.

Hope that helps! And good luck with your job search!

"If you don't have any work experience, in my opinion, you need to apply to junior or entry-level positions."

First, i want to say that, theres difference between Fresh grad, and self-taught and coding bootcamp and the thing is that, none of 3 of em can have accurate answer about of good the person is. and yep, they are all having no work experience when they are gonna start apply, because how to get work experience before even land a job?

I disagree with u monica. I think a person still can land a job at mid or senior level without work experience company nowadays' job description doesnt being written like candidate has to have 3+ or 5+ years of experience, even though its senior level.

A good mindset programmer with ability to adapt is definitely what every great company are looking for, rather than having (no offense) 10 - 20 years of work experience.

When they are in workplace, they can definitely still ask online forum to other senior programmer who have been working for 10 - 20 years.

And also i dont think its a good idea to start freelance, its not easy unless u want to find client offline by going there and there IRL if u want to find online, then u have to have kinda celebrity status in the field (thats not fun).