How to become a software engineer (without a 40-page funnel)

Ship things, show them, apply to junior titles that exist this week.

The sequence that still works: learn enough to build, publish a small project with a README, get one person to review your code, then apply to intern and junior listings that are actually dated.

Bootcamps and YouTube roads are optional. A Git history is not. If you cannot explain your own repo, you are not ready for a panel.

Use the internships and entry-level hubs on this site as a filter, not as a guarantee. We are not a school.