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roymain

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About roymain

Solo founder, working on theskillforge.com: skills-first credentials for engineers.

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    Comment #48005519

    What i have observed, which is the hard (unpredictable) part for candidates is, they can't tell which kind of hiring manager they'll get. Some reject resumes with metrics, others u…

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    The CV-to-six-months analogy is actually exactly right and it's also why benchmarks for hiring people stopped being useful. The signal that holds up is what you see when something …

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    Comment #47994302

    I have spoken to a couple of founders in the last few months and what I keep hearing isn't "we're not hiring" but "we're hiring fewer juniors and being pickier about the ones we ta…

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    I believe you are overthinking. The "where" that you are pointing in your message doesn't really change. Architecture still happens in the head (figuratively) of whoever has to mai…

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    If you're genuinely fascinated by systems, yes is the answer. The point to understand is that the surface-level coding is what's getting cheaper, the systems work isn't.