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Is that an offer? :) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimhunziker/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimhunziker/ One hit was for making machine guns target humans better

Is that an offer? :) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimhunziker/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimhunziker/ One hit was for making machine guns target humans better. (I rejected the in-person interview.) Another dropped me because they wanted cloud experience. A YC company changed the job from remote to SF only before we talked.

solipsism 6y ago
Where's the 20 YoE? Your linkedin says 10. And it only shows 6. What did you do between 1998 (when you earned your degree) and 2014 when you started doing the consulting? That's a super long time to leave undocumented. That makes potential employers nervous. What subject was your degree in? It's strange that it doesn't say. I think you should take a look at the resume of other people with 20 years of experience in the software engineering industry and compare and contrast. When I look at this, I think... "What did this guy do for all this time? Did he advance in any meaningful way?" In 20 years, I want to see * Advancement * Variety * Leadership I don't know your story, and I have no real reason to think you're not an accomplished engineer. But your CV isn't doing a good job of showing it. Good luck to you.
- landtuna 6y ago
  I think it must be limiting what you can see to connections if you're not a subscriber to the LinkedIn service. That's all in there!
user5994461 6y ago
How big is Bernardsville, New Jersey? Is it New York basically or is it elsewhere, countryside? One really bad thing about the industry that's rarely talked about is how the jobs are concentrated in a few cities worldwide. If you're in SV/NYC you're fine but if you're in a small city there might hardly be any opportunity. I would had some numbers in the resume. When you say large amount of data for example, how many sensors? how many GB per day? You're saying you're a consultant? I think it could turn off some companies who are looking for a permanent employee. Also, it's really uncommon for a consultant to work at the same company for 6 years. If you've worked mainly for two clients, you could describe that as two separate jobs. That would add way more content and show more experience. The resume is quite empty right now for 20+ years. P.S. Can see all the experience going back to 1999. There's no problem of linkedin hiding anything for me.
TensorDrew 6y ago
Would you consider moving away from the north east? Because you would probably be able to at least get interviewed at a national lab. But only Brookhaven is in NY and that is one that I have very little experience with. If you were willing to entertain the idea of New Mexico then the labs might be an option for you.
chillacy 6y ago
I suspect that even though you have a lot of experience programming, recruiters aren't counting it as applicable experience to the jobs you want. You essentially have even less experience with cloud/ML than most college grads who at least took classes where they have applicable project experience. Changing job areas is hard, the best way imo is to find a company that does both what you currently excel at and what you want to do, then do an internal transfer to build experience. I've seen it done before where a friend of mine joined one team building internal support tools, switched to a different team doing data science, and now gets job offers for data science.

solipsism 6y ago

Where's the 20 YoE? Your linkedin says 10. And it only shows 6. What did you do between 1998 (when you earned your degree) and 2014 when you started doing the consulting? That's a super long time to leave undocumented. That makes potential employers nervous. What subject was your degree in? It's strange that it doesn't say. I think you should take a look at the resume of other people with 20 years of experience in the software engineering industry and compare and contrast. When I look at this, I think... "What did this guy do for all this time? Did he advance in any meaningful way?" In 20 years, I want to see * Advancement * Variety * Leadership I don't know your story, and I have no real reason to think you're not an accomplished engineer. But your CV isn't doing a good job of showing it. Good luck to you.

landtuna 6y ago
I think it must be limiting what you can see to connections if you're not a subscriber to the LinkedIn service. That's all in there!

user5994461 6y ago

How big is Bernardsville, New Jersey? Is it New York basically or is it elsewhere, countryside? One really bad thing about the industry that's rarely talked about is how the jobs are concentrated in a few cities worldwide. If you're in SV/NYC you're fine but if you're in a small city there might hardly be any opportunity. I would had some numbers in the resume. When you say large amount of data for example, how many sensors? how many GB per day? You're saying you're a consultant? I think it could turn off some companies who are looking for a permanent employee. Also, it's really uncommon for a consultant to work at the same company for 6 years. If you've worked mainly for two clients, you could describe that as two separate jobs. That would add way more content and show more experience. The resume is quite empty right now for 20+ years. P.S. Can see all the experience going back to 1999. There's no problem of linkedin hiding anything for me.

TensorDrew 6y ago

Would you consider moving away from the north east? Because you would probably be able to at least get interviewed at a national lab. But only Brookhaven is in NY and that is one that I have very little experience with. If you were willing to entertain the idea of New Mexico then the labs might be an option for you.

chillacy 6y ago

I suspect that even though you have a lot of experience programming, recruiters aren't counting it as applicable experience to the jobs you want. You essentially have even less experience with cloud/ML than most college grads who at least took classes where they have applicable project experience. Changing job areas is hard, the best way imo is to find a company that does both what you currently excel at and what you want to do, then do an internal transfer to build experience. I've seen it done before where a friend of mine joined one team building internal support tools, switched to a different team doing data science, and now gets job offers for data science.