Career-changer JavaScript developer who joined Semios after a reset hiring process
No prior professional engineering experience; ~200 Indeed applications led to a Coop offer at agritech company Semios after a 1.5-month process reset.
JavaScriptデベロッパー · Vancouver · Semios
Profile
Career changer into a JavaScript developer Coop at Semios (agritech / IoT for agriculture) in Vancouver. Attributes list company Semios; confidence on metadata is low, but the interview names Semios explicitly.
Current role
JavaScript developer on Semios’s internal web/mobile team (~10 people). Roughly 80% frontend / 20% backend including API work; Docker used as needed though not listed in the job posting. Mostly remote after two office visits for hardware. At interview time he had been in role about seven months. Customer-facing vs internal split: he sits on the internal sensor-control side; another Frog alum (Taishi) was already on the customer side.
Japan experience
Prior professional engineering experience: none (career changer). He used a Japan employer as one of three references (document-based check). Nature of that Japan job, years, and company name are not stated in the provided source text.
Path to Canada / North America
CICCC mobile track (Swift); wanted web but COVID forced remote study from Japan and the web schedule was overnight Japan time. Self-taught frontend for the Semios role; company mobile stack is Android, so school iOS skills were not a direct fit. Job search started around early March aiming for May Coop; offer mid-June; start July 1. About 200 Indeed applications, four interviews, one offer. Hiring: HR phone screen → take-home JS/React coding → silence → proactive follow-up → process moved from customer to internal track → reference checks (instructor, Canadian part-time employer, Japan employer). Canadian part-time: web-service site renewal. Portfolio included a skateboard hobby app. Work authorization: Coop + WHV covering about two years; visa duration asked lightly by HR.
Outcome
Landed Semios Coop/employment despite no past professional coding experience and a prolonged, reset process. He advises asking when pipelines go silent and practicing interview stories—even school projects—framed clearly.
Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning (partners / employers). Original interview (Japanese)
Japan job details largely absent from provided intro/factHits. attributes.confidence=low but Semios is named in article body.