Lyft Engineering - Medium

Written by Savelii Kolesnikov, Jay Patel, and

Several people have asked me what the qualifications are for junior software engineers to be hired these days. This level is often referred to as “new grad,” but people with lots of different backgrounds, not just recent university graduates, can use the entry-level software engineering role as their first job in big tech.

For example, in my early career I worked as a g...