The title made me hope he had written a bot to literally to a million jobs.
For a second I thought he indeedd built a tool to apply to a million jobs at once. That would have been impressive.
Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
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#222Tossing CVs down an HR portal (to nowhere) isn't a way to find jobs. You find jobs by knowing people . I'm sure there are some developer/designer meetups in Paris. Find one (or many) and start going. That doesn't mean sit in the back silently. You need to network. This doesn't have to be cheesy. Make small talk. Get to know them and their interests. Maybe you'll have the same favorite CSS framework. Talk about that t…
> Why I am so confident in this answer? 1) I've gotten every one of my jobs through networking (either from meetups or from former coworkers and friends)
This doesn't mean people don't get jobs through normal HR means. I've gotten the majority of my jobs through just applying on a website, although I do agree that knowing someone is better.
Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
#223I do pretty much the exact same thing as you and I am approximately the same age. Almost EVERY job I looked at in NYC precluded remote workers and non-citizens/non-greencard holders. Jobs in SF seemed to be a little more open to sponsorship. Maybe try looking there?
You'll need to look for jobs in Europe, or look specifically for jobs that will sponsor you. Your problem isn't your skill. It's your location.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe you guys are being overly harsh and strict, you probably don't realize it but to me you sound like you're criticizing for the next Jony Ive position. I find OP's work impressive and his design skills are great, he handles minimalism with grace, and that's not something a programmer could achieve without previous design principles. His website's concept is exactly what it should be (being a T shaped professi…
Well, although I don't want to be harsh and strict on someone who just asks us for some advice, I must be honest that my opinion of his design skills match more closely to the posts above than to yours. The designs shown are not compelling enough for me to recommend, hire or work with OP if it were for his design skills. And somehow that is in fact what he communicates as his biggest skills. Then again, maybe my opin…
I think the OP's design skills are great for a developer, but not necessarily for a product designer. He should market himself as a web developer instead of a product designer.
Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
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#226I would highly consider revising your js/time.js if you want to be consider for a javascript development position, there are some painful issues here. http://o23.io/js/time.js please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I am aware of toLocaleTimeString() but I chose to do it manually because I wanted to display time in this particular format, regardless of the user's locale, and because of oddities like this one for Safari users: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471508/javascript-on-mac...
You really don't need to be displaying your user's time at all. It's kind of distracting.
Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
#227Have you been working with any recruiters?
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#228I want you to know you are not alone... I have been doing the same thing with the same results for the last 6 months. I have applied to over 168 jobs (I used LinkedIn and it tracks them all). Of that I got about 25 recruiter interviews (level 0), about 15 Hiring Manager interviews (level 1) and about 10 second stage calls or on-site (level 2). None have yet panned out or even look close... It's hard out there right n…
I applied for jobs this year and last year. Last year I applied to 323. I got 5 screening calls, 2 interviews, and 0 job offers. This year I applied to 26 jobs. I got 11 screening calls, 3 interviews, and 1 job offer.
I've learned that the trick is quality over quantity.
Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
#229I would highly consider revising your js/time.js if you want to be consider for a javascript development position, there are some painful issues here. http://o23.io/js/time.js please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I am aware of toLocaleTimeString() but I chose to do it manually because I wanted to display time in this particular format, regardless of the user's locale, and because of oddities like this one for Safari users: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471508/javascript-on-mac...
when you pass the local "en-us" that means you use that, and not the user's locale.
the formatting you desired, can also be easily defined with the options argument. see (https://jsfiddle.net/prn4823b/1/)
but these methods, are pretty new, so say we disregard them for a minute.
The serious issue to take note of here, is that you are defining everything, in a function you are calling every second.
you don't need a new date object every second, you don't need to redefine those arrays, you also instead of doing one conditional for amPm, and hour formatting, are doing each in their own ternary.
I'm not trying to be hyper critical, but I did to you, just like I do with most candidates that apply with me, and seeing this, it would make me doubt your statements about javascript.
I would also argue, that showing the time here is a bit odd, as typically for something like this, it would be the time of the contents last update, not their own time, they have a clock already.
Best of luck with getting a gig.
Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
#230Have you thought about Canada? In particular, Montreal has a vibrant tech scene, and they have a connection to French culture that might work in your favour. Canada needs lots of working-age people!
This guy is clearly aching to live in New York, so this advice isn't great...