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Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by byebyetech »

billconan wrote: post #13

I want to work for a position that requires domain knowledge (for example, deep learning which is what I'm currently interested in). Or a job that I can make theoretical breakthroughs and those breakthroughs are connected with industry, can be productized . I'm sick of solving engineering problems. I'm working on a large code base with lots of people. the difficulty of my job comes from unfamiliarity and complexity.…

We software developers are practically knowledge trash cans. The knowledge we acquire decays faster than unrefrigerated meat. If wish I paid attention on my math classes, I would have been doing something cool like Deep learning rather than pull my hair, debug unknown codes and plug apis. The only intellectual stimulation I get is when I am preparing for technical interviews.

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by byebyetech »

deckard1 wrote: post #10

Money. Remote work (freedom). Location. Equally important, IMO, is what I stay away from: Ping pong/pool/foosball offices. Free soda offices. Creepy culture cults. Open floorplans. Basically, all the infantile ways IT companies like to placate younger, naive employees while cargo-culting Google and Facebook. If your office resembles a college dorm, then you probably need to grow up.

I could take 10% cut in my salary if they offer me my own office.

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by byebyetech »

djb_hackernews wrote: post #24
bbcbasic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open floorplans? I'm yet to see a company that offers your own office for a Engineer position. Exception is one that used to until they scaled up. I am yet to see a cubicle office plan, everything I have seen is open. Where I work now it is 10 or so people in a room so being open plan isn't too bad. Previously had 300 open plan that wasn't fun IMO.

I work for a well known software company and have my own private 120sqft office (4 floor to ceiling walls, door, personal thermostat, etc). All engineers have their own office. Sometimes they are double offices, most interns have 5ft? tall cubicles. This isn't so uncommon once you get out of the "startup"/frat house employers.

Which company ?

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by sotojuan »

byebyetech wrote: post #31
billconan wrote: post #13

I want to work for a position that requires domain knowledge (for example, deep learning which is what I'm currently interested in). Or a job that I can make theoretical breakthroughs and those breakthroughs are connected with industry, can be productized . I'm sick of solving engineering problems. I'm working on a large code base with lots of people. the difficulty of my job comes from unfamiliarity and complexity.…

We software developers are practically knowledge trash cans. The knowledge we acquire decays faster than unrefrigerated meat. If wish I paid attention on my math classes, I would have been doing something cool like Deep learning rather than pull my hair, debug unknown codes and plug apis. The only intellectual stimulation I get is when I am preparing for technical interviews.

Heh, I feel like this sometimes. Unfortunately math also bores me :/ I've tried many times.

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by ThePawnBreak »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #18
bbcbasic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open floorplans? I'm yet to see a company that offers your own office for a Engineer position. Exception is one that used to until they scaled up. I am yet to see a cubicle office plan, everything I have seen is open. Where I work now it is 10 or so people in a room so being open plan isn't too bad. Previously had 300 open plan that wasn't fun IMO.

Remote or bust. There are so many remote gigs now, there's almost no need to take an office gig unless the money is off the charts.

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ThePawnBreak wrote: post #36
toomuchtodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remote or bust. There are so many remote gigs now, there's almost no need to take an office gig unless the money is off the charts.

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by ThePawnBreak »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #37
ThePawnBreak wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.

Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and most things you would expect a good CS graduate to know about.

I am Romanian, but I would say my English skills are quite good, so communication shouldn't constitute a problem. I applied to about 30 remote positions and didn't get any interviews. I'm going to leave my country soon for this reason (trying to get a job at Google atm).

Re: Ask HN: What do you REALLY look for in a new position?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ThePawnBreak wrote: post #38
toomuchtodo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.

Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed sys…

Sorry to hear you're not getting much traction with those remote positions you've applied for. My advice would be to keep trying. Always Be Interviewing; it costs you time, but the reward is enormous. Good luck with Google; if it doesn't work out, here are some resources to use:

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

https://remotebase.io/

https://whereverjobs.com/

https://weworkremotely.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

https://www.wfh.io/

http://jobmote.com/

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