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I'm a software engineer with 12 years of experience currently working at FAANG. I've been working with Ruby for a long time and really enjoy it. Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote:…

Great points. I appreciate it. >and idiots who show up for interviews late in gym shorts and a Metallica t-shirt who don't know what the company they're interviewing at does This m…

There are valid reasons to want to talk to the recruiter after a rejection. For example, you might not have passed the bar for a certain seniority level, but might be willing to re…

I recently joined a FAANG company and moved to North America (from South America). Up to the week before I updated my Linkedin, I consistently got usually 3-5 recruiter cold messag…

Thanks everyone, great advice. For all those saying "get a new job": not that simple. Immigration. If things are real shitty (which they aren't!), I'll get a new job anyway and mov…

Totally agree with all your points except >there's not a lot of empirical evidence to support claims that automated tests will improve developer productivity or code quality. If yo…

I recently joined a big tech company. I'm slowly realizing our codebase is too lax regarding automated tests, and frankly code quality in general (e.g. no teamwide style guide). Th…

I'm a senior software engineer at an SF-based company. I work remotely from elsewhere in the world. I'm a few years into my role and my compensation is very generous for local stan…