josecodea

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by josecodea 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | WORLDWIDE Freelance Web Developer. Full-stack. With a decade of experience as SDE. Location: Costa Rica (LATAM). Remote: Yes, any timezone (I reside in CT/UTC-6, EST/CST timezones). Languages: Spanish, Engl
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by josecodea 1y ago
I also have this question, ads for remote should include either timezone requirements or geographical requirements, otherwise everyone wastes their time
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by josecodea 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | WORLDWIDE Freelance Web Developer. Full-stack. With a decade of experience as SDE. Location: Costa Rica (LATAM). Remote: Yes, any timezone (I reside in CT/UTC-6, EST/CST timezones). Languages: Spanish, Engl
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by josecodea 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | WORLDWIDE Freelance Web Developer. Full-stack. With a decade of experience as SDE. Location: Costa Rica (LATAM). Remote: Yes, any timezone (I reside in CT/UTC-6, EST/CST timezones). Languages: Spanish, Engl
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by josecodea 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | WORLDWIDE Freelance Web Developer. Full-stack. With a decade of experience as SDE. Location: Costa Rica (LATAM). Remote: Yes, any timezone (I reside in CT/UTC-6, EST/CST timezones). Languages: Spanish, Engl
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by josecodea 1y ago
I am sorry to hear that. It is high time that us engineers learn the lesson and refuse to work with any company that asks for unpaid work. There is no other way, but this only works if we are brave enough to act as activists, so that other
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by josecodea 1y ago
It seems like half of the commenters here believe they could implement a Golang TUI that sends and receives emails in less than 2 hours. Clearly they have never tried to build a TUI, let alone consider any kind of the issues that might occu
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by josecodea 1y ago
> even fixed-width font and compact layout would likely be enough Your assumption is that a better font-choice and some CSS would have made the difference for a back-end role.
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by josecodea 1y ago
Yes, no one took the time to talk with me on a call.
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by josecodea 1y ago
> lack of respect for the power dynamics is appalling. Yes! That's exactly it. It is mighty convenient for interviewers to feign ignorance of the power dynamics at play.
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by josecodea 1y ago
> If your app can’t be spun up and tested with a simple "docker compose up —build", then you are doing something wrong. It can be spun with a simple "make live", I mention this in the first line of the README. ¯\_(ツ)_
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by josecodea 1y ago
They asked for too much, and I am at fault for delivering? C'mon.
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by josecodea 1y ago
Postmark is a real SMTP provider, what are you saying?
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by josecodea 1y ago
I hadn't thought about this, but you are 100% correct.
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by josecodea 1y ago
To me, it is difficult to concoct a plausible explanation for the behavior from this recruiting manager. Assuming that the manager is not a technical professional and is therefore clueless about my emails is one of the few explanations that
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by josecodea 1y ago
> suss out what a stakeholder actually wants, but isn't saying due to incomplete information and/or office politics What you are saying sounds a lot like this: "it is common for engineers to communicate properly, but peopl
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by josecodea 1y ago
This is very speculative so I left it out of the blog post. But... 'market research' is typical endeavour for companies breaking into an unknown space, the decent ones will carry out focus groups with experienced professionals and
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by josecodea 1y ago
My brother on Earth, if I wanted to work on a new hobby... unpaid coding for a company wouldn't be on the list even if I had to think of a thousand hobbies.
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by josecodea 1y ago
You might not know this, but implementing Templ with PocketBase is non-trivial. It is actually impossible to do so unless you can read the source code for PocketBase yourself. Pocketbase is a golang framework that doubles as a library, Pock
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by josecodea 1y ago
I built an email client, it sent emails, it also received emails, it had an intuitive and speedy user interface, and it touched on fundamental topics for a web-application with users, quintessential topics for a back-end engineering role. S
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by josecodea 1y ago
Imagine your Jira card at the job: - Title: Make something fun for the customer. Then your performance review: - Manager: We cannot tell you why, but you failed at your job.
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by josecodea 1y ago
Exactly! You are actually considering all the possible ways in which your approach might be wrong and in which the time would be wasted. You are assessing risk before you take action. You are analyzing the subtleties in communication, you d
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by josecodea 1y ago
Reading your comment felt more tedious than writing my blog post.
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by josecodea 1y ago
> Anyway in 2 hours I’m pretty sure I can write some Go code that would get me an offer. This is not about the amount of features, it’s about giving them what they want. Please do it, get the offer that I didn't, maybe you could eve
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by josecodea 1y ago
> They didn't care as much about the details of the submittal as they did about seeing what the candidate would do without specific requirements. This would be acceptable in a world where time is infinite. The reality is that they
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by josecodea 1y ago
> Sure, it would be possible I have to be blunt, you have no idea what you are talking about. I am just going to say this: A terminal app is completely at odds with an online web client. If the interviewer is as clueless as you are, that
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by josecodea 1y ago
I deployed the app to my own domain and the functionality was without flaws. It took me forever. Included extra features typical of a backend role such as authentication and Infrastructure as Code. My efforts led to an empty rejection email
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by josecodea 1y ago
hi :) > To him, submitting a long design doc where you go "I am going to use Galactor. I will make sure the project is florp-ready. I will fleem." is the exact opposite of cool. Am I supposed to guess this much? Do they expect
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by josecodea 1y ago
Should we feel bad about the hiring managers? Hiring manager: - Gets paid to perform the interviews - Spends a 15 minutes answering emails and reviewing the solutions Candidate(s): - Does not get paid for their time - Spends anywhere betwee
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by josecodea 1y ago
> As someone who works at a university this is very reminiscent of students who don't understand the assignment then complain when they get an unexpected mark. This is such a lazy and convenient conclusion for someone that is giving

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