[segmondy]

I just hired 3 PAID interns that can turn full time, and they have 0 experience in the industry. These positions are out there, go knock on as many doors as you can. I've also hired many entry level developers.

What do I look for? I look for "can you code" as an entry level developer. I don't expect you to understand design patterns and all that crap. Can you hack your way around and get the damn code running? Great, you are better than 50% of the candidates. Have you taught yourself any new tech recently? Great! Do you know more than one language? Great! Have you finished any online course? coursera, udacity, udemy, whatever, just something or a book? Awesome. Can you show me some of your shitty code for a silly side project? Awesome. Are you passionate and willing to learn? Great! Do you know other things that you need not know such as Unix, DB, RESTful API, git, etc?

You already met everything I need in tech. The only other thing is to at least pretend to be a decent person during the interview be nice, polite, respectful, punctual, clean.

Go knock on doors.

[tudelo]

Not to be that guy, but emphasizing that it's paid? Is that really necessary? What are the chances that it wouldn't be...

[camhenlin]

Well there are lots of unpaid internships out there, and the OP is looking for a paying job, so I think it was worth mentioning that the internships were paid

[tudelo]

I guess it depends where you live. I have never heard of or known anyone doing an unpaid internship in real life. I have only heard of it in whispers on the internet.

[sotojuan]

Outside of engineering and (maybe?) finance, the vast majority of internships are unpaid.