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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah, it's horrible; I deleted my Facebook a decade ago because I hated what social media interaction was becoming and it was doing a number on my mental health. I deleted my old Twitter a few days ago, and I haven't done anythin
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by _swfb 1y ago
I have noticed that, at least in the Java world, people lie a lot about stuff going "faster", and I think it's just justification to not fix their terrible code. I have written a lot of JMH benchmarks in the last year to
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by _swfb 1y ago
I suppose what you're saying isn't "wrong" but can we agree that this sucks? Now every asshole has to try and co-opt "influencer" tactics and if you're not constantly writing bullshit that talks about how
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by _swfb 1y ago
To paraphrase Hunter Thompson: we will never know for sure if there's a heaven or hell, but I do know for sure that if there is a hell then it's being stuck having to read through LinkedIn for eternity. LinkedIn is easily the wors
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah, I don't think I disagree with anything you said. I was a little upset when I created the Ask HN, because I was pretty convinced that I was going to get this job and accidentally started getting preemptively excited. I try not to
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by _swfb 1y ago
That's generally what I do, I bring things up just to handwave them away and acknowledge that they're there. The problem is, of course, that even handwaving things away, there's still a near-infinite number of potential cavea
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by _swfb 1y ago
You're not wrong. That's why I was happy enough to delete all my posts.
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by _swfb 1y ago
I didn’t say I wanted to lie about my personality. I said I wanted to tune my personality so that I do better in interviews. It’s subtly different; I wanted advice on putting my best foot forward, and I was wondering if people had ideas f
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yep, definitely think that’s a pretty good idea.
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by _swfb 1y ago
I agree that's what it should be, but that absolutely not what it is and it hasn't been that way for many years. People treat LinkedIn like Facebook and post their opinions on things. Most of the potentially worrisome stuff I&#x
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by _swfb 1y ago
I gotta admit that it saddens me a little to think that calling myself a "wannabe-intellectual" or "eccentric" would have any connotation other than very mild self-deprecation, but I suppose it won't hurt to make it
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by _swfb 1y ago
It's not just this one employer. It's been months and I've had pretty limited success. This has happened with dozens of employers and after a certain point I have to assume I'm doing something wrong.
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by _swfb 1y ago
Oh my. I'm not sure why that would be suspicious. If I were planning nefarious stuff, it's not like it would be hard for me to make have a social media presence to fly under the radar.
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by _swfb 1y ago
I actually more or less did air all my dirty laundry on my first date with my wife, and we've been together since 2013, so at least that worked out ok. Still overall I think I agree with you. I think most techy people tend to like me
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by _swfb 1y ago
> If I'm hiring someone, I want to like working with them, and if I find them ranting online, I just mark them as negative and pessimistic. I can't help it - that's human nature I understand this, but we can agree that thi
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by _swfb 1y ago
I do a fair amount of public speaking (I've spoken at Lambda Days six times, the Clojure Conj once), and I was a university lecturer, so that stuff isn't too hard for me. I'm definitely guilty of rambling though; it's pr
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by _swfb 1y ago
Oh I know, I will keep applying and hoping for the best, obviously. I don't really have the privilege of being able to give up, as I need to pay my mortgage. It's just a bit discouraging sometimes. I don't really think I&#x2
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by _swfb 1y ago
It's just tough for me, because I kind of take pride in being accurate and technical questions often have a lot of edge cases and caveats that I feel compelled to point out because I don't want to say inaccurate stuff. But of cour
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah that's fair. It's probably still better overall to have no social media compared to social media with edgy takes.
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by _swfb 1y ago
Outside of some jobs requiring LinkedIn, I've never actually heard of anyone being declined for not having social media. I haven't had a Facebook account since 2015, I don't have an Instagram and I hadn't updated my Twit
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by _swfb 1y ago
I feel defeated now primarily because I really thought that I was going to get an offer on this job, so it kind of felt like a punch in the stomach when I got rejected this morning. I think I was feeling confident enough during the interv
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah honestly it really is something I hadn't considered much, especially my old Twitter which I haven't logged into for years and the last posts were when I was in an extremely bad state mentally. I completely forgot about it ev
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by _swfb 1y ago
This company doesn't have fifteen employees so I don't think I'd have much recourse regardless, but it was over the phone and it wasn't recorded. It would be my word against theirs. I did end up reporting them to the NYC
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by _swfb 1y ago
As it stands I don't really think I'm putting on an act during interviews. I am a very bad liar and if I lie people can tell almost immediately so generally I tend to be pretty brutally honest, and my personality more or less shi
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by _swfb 1y ago
I was declined from a job recently specifically because I wrote a blog post about my history with depression and medication for it [1]. That's not me justifying after the fact, they actually told me this. I took down most of the posts
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by _swfb 1y ago
In this particular case I actually have a phone call with the recruiter scheduled today to ask why they passed on me. In general they don't tell me when I do ask though. I understand that; they don't want to risk me suing them if
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by _swfb 1y ago
> Beyond this, comes the counter-intuitive position of being far more skilled than an interviewer. This can definitely work against you at times as well for a number of reasons. Just because you are the most technically adept for a posit
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by _swfb 1y ago
I mean, I don't disagree in principle but in practice I don't have years to spend waiting for the perfect job. I have decent savings so if I need to survive I can for awhile, but not forever.
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by _swfb 1y ago
I'm actually surprised that they gave you a reason. Usually I get some email like "while we were impressed by your skills and enjoyed talking to you, we do not believe that you're a good fit for CompanyX".
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by _swfb 1y ago
> Well I see the problem already. That was a joke. I did ask ChatGPT how much trouble I could get into by saying their name and it wasn't clear but honestly the problem is bigger than one company so I don't really need to thro

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