TLDR: Employers don’t hate “new” people; they hate “untested” people. If your portfolio is full of the same “Weather App” or “To-Do List” that everyone else built in a weekend, you are invisible.

How Cansu Skipped the Line: Cansu didn’t do “homework.” She took on a massive, terrifying problem: Predicting the health of aircraft engines.
She used her past: She already worked in automation, so she applied Data Science to a problem she actually understood.

She built a “Solution,” not a “Project”: Her thesis determines the “life ratio” of an engine. That isn’t a school assignment—it’s a multi-million dollar business insight.

The Amsterdam Tech (AT) Value: We don’t want you to be a student; we want you to be a specialist. Cansu’s 2.5-year journey was hard because real work is hard. But while other graduates are begging for a chance, Cansu is already a master of “remaining useful life” logic.The Bottom Line: If you want to break the “No Experience” loop, stop building toys. Start building things that save lives or save money.