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by ineedausername 2y ago
Have a calm discussion with them, make it in-depth technical but also talk to them in a friendly manner. No need for take-home tests or leetcodes, and no need to be a robot also. Why can't it be as simple as that?
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by ineedausername 2y ago
I'm 6 years into this "career" (more like a job than a career but anyway) and now I'm coding probably 4 hours per day. It wasn't that different in the beginning though.
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by ineedausername 2y ago
It looks like "ai generated" is the problem.
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by ineedausername 2y ago
> Currently, 79% of SWEs are seeking their next opportunity. You mean in the US, right? Still hard to believe.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
what money...
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by ineedausername 3y ago
It matters because it feels better.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
A person that loves this one must be a total degenerate, and it looks like IQ doesn't correlate with that. Intelligence is a broader term, of course there are no such tests, only IQ ones... which is to say, i was kind of kidding. But I
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Any measurement of an adults intelligence should include a test to determine how highly they think of this billionaire creep.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
I've spent about 2 years cumulatively doing absolutely nothing at "work". There was a funny case where I was assigned to a project that had almost no work and no meetings at all. And in another case I was in a dev support tea
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by ineedausername 3y ago
It's funny because arguably you achieve less safety routing your traffic through someone else's servers.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
VPN isn't exactly supposed to provide safety though.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Wait, do you just tell it "please be more concise" to whatever you ask of it?
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Should we cry now or something?
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by ineedausername 3y ago
I also want to hurt Javascript.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
I also have no clue. This Twatter way of communication and it's purpose are things i haven't managed to fully comprehend yet. It's disturbing tbh.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
What is this abomination.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Respectfully, I'm simply not paying just for some swe classes. It seems ridiculous to me nowadays and others share this sentiment I'm sure.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Good luck. Are you interested only in remote? Lots of companies are doing the hybrid thing, in EU, and won't accept fully remote anymore.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
So they see ~20 YOE and they're running? I'm curious about the location, you can share your area if you wish, or just country. Are these applications for positions that are flooded with resumes? (can be seen on linkedin)
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Can you please share what is the main reason you believe you're getting rejected or passed on?
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by ineedausername 3y ago
You mean to tell me that they don't wanna hire seniors in your area? Idk the market seems to be looking mainly for senior+.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
So i heard. How are they gonna find seniors in the future if they don't invest in juniors now, i wonder.
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Ask HN: How's the Job Hunt Going?
45 points by ineedausername 3y ago|55 comments
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Most emus i found are in C. Writing it in Rust is a good way to learn the lang too i guess, it's become quite a popular lang lately, unexpectedly for me.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Gonna dig this. Cool. Why Rust btw?
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by ineedausername 3y ago
We cannot draw exact lines on what constitutes intelligence.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
First the general doc then the tests.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
a hashcode
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by ineedausername 3y ago
Are you talking about USA based companies/market? Fully remote isn't enough info.
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by ineedausername 3y ago
True only to some extent, the knowledge you need to be a competent devops is huge and i think most techies prefer dev route though i don't know the stats.

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