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Tired of recruiters asking me if I had a BSCS, I went back to college after years working in IT. Had a conversation with the other seniors in a CS 300 class one day, I would say a …

My work status hasn't changed since 2022 when I got all those recruit attempts. I log in at least once a week, thumbs up people's accomplishments and sometimes reply "Congratulatio…

I am a programmer in the US. Linkedin mails to me from recruiters - 2026 - one (recruiter did not name the company, hybrid six month contract in another city) 2025 - none 2024 - no…

I remember Gnucleus and followed the release of Gnutella and used to read the old Gnutella Developer Forum on Yahoo where the major Gnutella clones hashed out the next steps for th…

You are looking at this from your perspective, which is either pass or fail. From their perspective, they might be interviewing, say, six people. As you say, they've already weeded…

I program at a non-tech Fortune 100 company. Our team is on a pilot program to try out AI-assisted programming at the company, and Cursor with OpenAI models are mostly what we are …

I got a gig from who's hiring a few years ago. I also interviewed at some other places which were not a fit. Some places never got back to me. It has been a mix.

I went to a state school (cheap) and took one class a semester - usually at night, sometimes on a weekend. So I'd work until 5, then take a class from say 7 to 830 every Tuesday an…

One thing I do is go to Leetcode, see the optimal big O time and space solutions, then give the LLM the Leetcode medium/hard problem, and limit it to the optimal big O time/space s…

I have been working in IT for over 30 years. What is happening is not new. Late 1999 was a very go-go time, early 2022 was a very go-go time. Alternatively, things were dead in 199…

> Sometimes that means making dumb business decisions like sacrificing an evening to a company that doesn't care, but IMO that sort of thing is worth it now and then. I sacrifice a…

We say grind out Leetcode, because if someone can't do a Leetcode medium (or hard) like finding a cycle in a linked list in a few minutes, it diminishes their chances of getting in…

> it’s much more realistic to start a business that is going to convince enough people to pay you enough to support yourself. I only have to convince one place - Google Ads. Plus b…

Corollary: This role can also be filled by someone of Asian heritage who was raised in the US, and who speaks English very well, as well as some Asian language proficiently.

I live in an apartment building and was given a fob that opens my apartment garage door and doors in the building. The fob takes specific lithium coin batteries and lately has been…

I've been using ChatGPT (paid) and Perplexity (unpaid) to help with different coding stuff. I've found it very helpful in some situations. There are some instructions I give it alm…

I worked in IT for a number of years without a degree, then went back to school. I had a discussion with some CS major seniors around 2011, who tended to be the more promising half…

Something along these lines. Something with Javascript underneath. Probably React front-end. Someone else had the right idea at looking at Linkedin and seeing what people are hirin…

I program an Android app for a Fortune 100 company. Last commit where someone edited a Java file was last week. Most of the new code from the past few years has been in Kotlin thou…

Most shops are doing (theoretically) agile, and specifically scrum. Where I work we are theoretically doing scrum, but it is the worst of all worlds. Tickets (I mean - stories) are…

LLMs have been getting better - they were all pretty poor for my programming purposes a year or so ago, recently Perplexity (even the non-Pro version) and GPT4 have been helpful, a…

> Offering a part-time role is a sign that they don’t actually have enough money to be in the software industry, rather than an indication that they have less than 40 hours a week …

I default to Linux when I can. I have a System76 laptop (running Ubuntu, not PopOS). My current company gives us a MBP or Windows laptop, my team gets MBPs, Linux is not an option.…

I have been told by people working in $200k+/$300k+ SWE jobs to look up at the answers and just be able to regurgitate something along the lines of the Grind 75 answers as a first …

> It's very much not your legacy typewriter keyboard, even though the order of the letters is the same. That random order of letters from 1878 still appearing on my screen is the d…