spearingthehead

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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I have applied to consulting firms, although just sparingly in the past. Didn't put a hard focus on them. Several months ago, I sent cold applications to two software developer positions at Deloitte, and one at Infosys. They were all r
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I need to find a recruiter that is really hands-on with their candidates as you say though it takes effort. Most recruiters I've met just want to fill the role regardless of who it is because why would they spend time trying to improve
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Ask HN: How can I earn money in the workforce with a interview “disability”?
4 points by spearingthehead 4y ago|6 comments
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
For me it sort of fell on my lap as I wasn't really going out of my way to find a remote job. I was just in need of more work. It was 2013 and was still using Craigslist for job hunting, mind you. I was looking for a better opportunity
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Ask HN: Is extended WFH/remote weakening soft skills for my job prospects?
3 points by spearingthehead 4y ago|1 comments
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Presumably a Masters (but not PhD) might be suitable as a "booster" for an ailing career, on top of being a career-changer. But I also see OP doesn't seem to doing terrible on their own. I only suggest it as a way to pull you
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
How do you find discipline without structured education? Especially when you lack anyone else to keep you accountable for your work?
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Like the author of this article, I have a bad sleep schedule. It's something that came about from over 2 years of unemployment (and still job searching). I kept a log of my job applications from last year. Going over them recently, I n
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (conditional) Technologies: JavaScript, Node, PHP, MVC frameworks, Ruby, .NET, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Docker (basic), Apache Résumé/CV: on request Email: chris.caja
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I will never learn anything for free or paying money for it again because it has become ineffective from my own experience. Now, I require a binding guarantee that something has to pay off.
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Web design agencies and software body shops like WITCH are also tech companies. They may not 100% own their own software work, foster a poor software development culture and probably build on spaghetti inherited from some offshore firm they
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Ask HN: Is avoiding unpaid career prep/learning a viable path when unemployed?
3 points by spearingthehead 4y ago|3 comments
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
It's especially worse when they are required by TOS to not engage in communication with bidders/clients outside the platform. This would be like, for example, if you set up a job interview from a listing at Indeed, and then Indeed
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
It does happen a lot in physical collectible markets. It is what happened with WATA Games and the lawsuit against their employees for market manipulation through auctions. Or the Nike scandal with a VP's son using her CC and employee d
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I tend to look at bi-modal as two bell curves that are close at a few parts, but not quite merging together, and tri-modal as three curves. Wouldn't it be more sensible to treat each curve as one sub-category of the industry? It would
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Hmm... A little over a year ago I enrolled in an interview prep program that was open to all levels of experience. I don't have as many as 17 years, but around 8 years which is still past junior/entry at this point. Part of the pr
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (conditional) Technologies: JavaScript, Node, PHP, MVC frameworks, Ruby, .NET, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Docker (basic), Apache Résumé/CV: on request Email: chris.caja
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Does this exempt Amazon as well? I heard from an ex Amazon employee saying that 50-60 hour work-weeks is the norm there, and they work you to the bone, but he also didn't specify if that was for his particular team/department only
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
However, if you can't get far, there should be some way outside of work to build up your broad skills. "A" you can build up on free time, but it's also mostly isolating. "C" is harder to come by outside of work
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Ask HN: Interview prep area with a greater focus on soft skills?
1 points by spearingthehead 4y ago|0 comments
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Whether or not 10 applications is inadequate, I found it to be very subjective and dependent on their resume and performance factors. For me, just like you conclude, 10 is indeed very little, because I've submitted nearly one thousand
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
It is a strange problem indeed. I'm in a similar job seeking position as OP having difficulty convincing some companies that my lack of certain concrete knowledge should be a non-issue, when you consider the true spirit of what a softw
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (conditional) Technologies: JavaScript, Node, PHP, MVC frameworks, Ruby, .NET, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Docker (basic), Apache Résumé/CV: on request Email: chris.caja
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Also, the landscape changed a lot since the time you started pivoting at 2008. That's just one year after the time I started my career, competition was less fierce. Now I'm curious it it's become more difficult in the present
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Just been given the software engineer title at a few jobs, which I know is just a job title at this point.
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I'll have to work my experience to my advantage, then. Squeeze out every last drop I can get, even if it's not much. Or go for one of those bootcamps. I have to show that I'm still better than less experienced bootcamp grads,
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
Yeah, I get loads of emails from recruiters every week. Usually for contract senior positions. I ignore most of them and may ask one to filter me for junior jobs if it's possible.
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
>Just stretch out your freelancing entry. I also did that and it got people to wonder, in resume reviews, why my freelance content is so short given the amount of years. I have done ~18 months worth of work in the time spanning from 2015
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
I haven't applied to all the ones I know, but my application to Infosys in 2020 was rejected (full stack Java dev). I had assumed these body shops just train you to fill in the gaps. It's been 2 years so I'm gonna give it ago
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by spearingthehead 4y ago
This all sounds good to me. I'd prefer companies that would give me the benefit of the doubt. In addition to what you've suggested, I also want to avoid displaying all the red flags (or minimize them, at least) that user "cod

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