From my conversations with them, a lot of them hire in non-traditional areas too, because they know they can't compete with FAANG. So look broadly for their posts.
Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
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Re: Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
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MSFT Teams -- my condolences.
I see this sentiment online, but using MS Teams at work, I have a great experience. 2-n way chat threads and video calls, team bulletin boards, and integrated apps like sharepoint, excel, custom internal software, etc. I use slack, zoom, and discord for a mix of school and personal use, and appreciate what each of these offer, but wouldn’t wish to switch off of Teams for work. I do wish you could message yourself on…
However, the product is really rough around the edges and lacks the quality you'd find in other products (well, the other product, but there are also open source alternatives* that are worth looking at as well imo).
* https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/fokrr7/opensour...
Re: Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
#53Don't want to sound negative, but there needs to be at least some value proposition. An employer isn't going to be super impressed if the pitch is "I'd like flex hours, training, open to anything, gimme gimme gimme". Everyone is "willing to learn"; the difference is who talks the talk and who walks the walk. She needs to have some sort of target role and be at least able to demonstrate passing familiarity with some p…
My friend's father works with COBOL. Apparently it's quite lucrative. It isn't used much, but it's also hard to hire people for those jobs so they tend to be well paid.