Very sorry to hear about your case. As a 35 yr old programmer I hear you. Its hard. Praying for the best
Another programming interview I blew
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#12Hi Irishguy - I believe there was a fellow here that was promoting a job board for very experienced (i.e.: non-teenager) software developers. I remember he had 100s of comments after putting together a simple google doc. I am sure there must be lots of jobs on that board already. In what cities are you looking for a new position?
oomph. old geek jobs. now only 2 are specifically for old geeks, the rest are just culled from other job sites.
i've seen some really nice pallet and tarp houses around lately
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#13I think you just need a pair of glasses, even if they are not prescription. I'm in the same position as you and I think glasses are what makes the difference. Almost hysterical to the point of tears, I know, but it seems more true the more I experiment.
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#14Keep at it -- places that don't have a thoughtful enough interview process to ask you something practical and relevant aren't companies you probably want to work at anyway.
You got spunk
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#15My last interview was through a recruiter and I got an email back saying they liked me and we'd hear something the following week then I never heard back from the recruiter. Emailed a week later no response. emailed again another week no response. I did eventually get a job. I've decided to work on getting my loan officer license.
If we started talking about recruiters, I am pretty sure HN would crash due to the longest threads ever made! I don't know if this is just recruiters for software dev jobs that act this way but they make the whole process a lot more stressful than it needs to be.
Because of all the BS involved in building software, I am considering starting my own food truck. I used to enjoy writing code and solving problems...
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#16Bullshit interviews are part of the system now. The only way to beat it is with interview-er accountability.
In interviews today, the expectation is that the candidate should be perfect, do this, that, don't forget to do this. But the interviewer has no such requirement. The interviewer can reject you because "They had a bad day".....seriously, this is what companies say. Look at some answers here: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-possible-reasons-of-being...
So the candidate has to be PERFECT but the interviewer can reject because they are just HUMANS? How the hell does this make sense?
Maybe we need yelp for interviewers. A rating system will weed out bad interviewers and bad company policies.
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#17show me your Github profile or your learning blog, you need to build a personal brand as a developer... :)
I abhor the notion of developing a private "brand" so strongly and resist-fully that it's hard to keep my cool commenting about it. That said, it would be cool to have a service that would take all the code you have and some of the stuff you've made, and make a decent portfolio for you. Like -> out comes a shiny portfolio site
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#18I'm 47, had plenty of shitty interviews. Forget about them, move on. I changed jobs twice last year because one of the companies went bankrupt. All beyond my control. I specialize in mobile app programming. If the interview strays much beyond that I remind the interviewer of the specific type of job I am looking for. If that does not work then I end the interview. If they did not read my resume then they are wasting my time. For the last shitty interview the interviewer was quizzing me about regex - apparently not being a regex expert means I was not worth moving forward with. A couple days later I had an offer from another company.
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#19Be direct and tell them that you aren't interested in answering their random internet puzzles. Offer to complete a programming assignment directly related to what you would be working on in the job, on your own time. (Assuming you are willing to do that.)
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#20Bullshit interviews are part of the system now. The only way to beat it is with interview-er accountability. In interviews today, the expectation is that the candidate should be perfect, do this, that, don't forget to do this. But the interviewer has no such requirement. The interviewer can reject you because "They had a bad day".....seriously, this is what companies say. Look at some answers here: https://www.quora.…
I believe this is why Starfighters was being made; because the system is broken. Too bad it didn't work out(not the CTF or stock game; the idea). I wish there was a site where, in my own time, I can do some tasks to prove that I can actually do what I've been doing for the past 15 years. As in, "here I reversed a string and this is proof. now can we please discuss something relevant to the role or am I being hired to reverse strings all day?"