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I'm sorry - my brain says "recruiter" when I read your message for some reason. I'm not sure what it is pattern matching on. If you can assure me that you're not a recruiter I'd be…

There should be a market for people like us. My personal network is not large enough to build a practice around. Have you had any ideas on this?

I do like the DC area but we have kids living in the Bay Area and my wife doesn't want to move away from them. If there is some way to work with you with that constraint I'd be int…

The advice I've given to younger generalists like me is to force yourself to become an expert on something. That's what people are used to seeing when they are hiring. Pick somethi…

The main reason is we have 4 kids living in the Bay Area and my wife doesn't want to move away from them.

OP: Not sure why you are down-voted. The HackerNews Community seems to dislike telling the truth if it is surrounded by even a hint of negativity. Can you be more specific about wh…

Actually, I would appreciate some advice on this. I truly don't know what services to sell. I can set up machines, design databases, write graph algorithms, train machine learning …

I have run into this in the past. Usually a Technical Lead or Director of Engineering is grumpy, gives me a very perfunctory 5-minute interview, has clearly already made up their m…

OP. I'm originally from the midwest but we'd like to stay in California for now. I'll keep you in mind, though.

Absolutely not! It's a slippery slope when one starts fudging "just a little".

VP of Engineering at a startup is probably the best fit. Managing small (< 10) software teams is probably next. Anything with lots of novel and/or interesting problems is next. I a…

Well, I'm not very social. My personal network exists but most of them have been at the same job for 10 years or longer. A few are at FANG-CxO level where I'm not sure they'd be he…

I've applied to Apple several times over the last 10 years for jobs requiring some very specific and rare skills that I have. They have never responded. I've gone through the inter…

My whole team was laid off two years ago. Last year I did a startup that unfortunately folded when my business partner had a major family tragedy. This year I've been contracting a…

These are all very helpful. My next resume is going to be much shorter...

I started out in Math, realized I liked to build things, switched to EE, and took all the CS courses I could for fun. When I was done I had enough credits to get all three degrees.…

I'm curious - what are engineering managers seeing on my resume that makes them apparently routinely reject my resume? My summary: 35 years in Silicon Valley; 3 STEM undergrad degr…