Ask HN: How to find a new role as a very senior software engineer?

Post by robomartin » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:25 AM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #22

robomartin wrote: post #7

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Please don't take this personally, it isn't aimed at you at all. You simply provided the trigger for the thought, likely without intention. It's not "principle", it's "principal". Other examples of this exist, "your", "you are" or "you're", etc. As someone who has hired many engineers, let me tell you (plural) why I think accuracy in written communications is important. It's quite simple, really: Software development…

I know very good engineers who have dyslexia.

How is that an impediment? Are you saying a person with dyslexia is incapable of authoring a resume that makes a good first impression? I disagree.

Dyslexia does not preclude someone from doing a good job at all. Spell check. Use grammar tools. Get someone to proof read. Not that hard.

If I were interviewing someone who told me they have dyslexia and their resume is perfectly written, I will know, without a doubt, they will be detail-oriented while on the job. Once again, the resume is a valuable opportunity to make an excellent first impression.

Post by Jugurtha » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

simplerman wrote: post #30

Jugurtha wrote: post #29

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> Large corps with work with other large consulting companies or hire. We've worked with large organizations and the large consulting companies these organizations hire as well. Tectonic cracks are big enough for a tiny human to get in there. When a large organization wants something done fast for $100,000-$200,000, it's not really a job for a huge consulting company, because it's basically pocket change. But for a s…

This is great advice. Your company is a small consultancy though, not an individual consultant. I read your Twitter thread. It makes sense but I am still not sure how I as an individual can get my foot in the door. It seems you are saying I should incorporate and work as a company. But my current company and pretty much every company I worked for has a process to vet vendors. They would easily see that this LLC is a…

>But my current company and pretty much every company I worked for has a process to vet vendors. They would easily see that this LLC is a brand new company with one owner/person.

You're right, but if you hit on enough doors, you might get lucky. We had our first client, a large multinational, before having a company.

Furthermore, it depends on what you are selling: selling a payroll, procurement, or HR system that changes the entire process of an organization or requires adoption, training of all of their employees, and tight maintenance requirements, is harder than selling a product that is more contained to a small team or can be used to accomplish something without impacting everything.

>But it was rejected because they said his company was too young, and had too few employees (it is just him and his wife).

Sure. Then your friend talks with another company, and another, and another. If they want to work with large organizations, that is. There are many who don't like it after a bad experience or for other reasons.

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