799 rejections... but he got the job! Braydon Coyer developer interview [Podcast #179]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Braydon Coyer. He's a software engineer who started building mobile apps in high school – one of which even out-sold Angry Birds for a few days. He dropped out of his computer science degree program once he landed his first web developer job and never went back.

We talk about:

• Mobile app development VS web app development

• Strategies for applying for developer roles

• How useful is a CS degree really?

• Sane ways to integrate AI into your developer workflows

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Braydon's awesome custom website: https://www.braydoncoyer.dev/

• Fruit Ninja game development documentary:

• Raycast tool Braydon uses to automate prpcesses on his Mac: https://www.raycast.com/

• Tana note taking tool Braydon uses: https://tana.inc/