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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#72First job was through an advert in a local paper, after that every job and eventually contract came through contacts I made at previous employers.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.
I failed a FB loop a few weeks ago despite studying really fucking hard and doing pretty damn well on the questions I got. I’m afraid I’ll be stuck at Amazon, which nobody is actually impressed by, if I’m lucky and not PIPed out.
One day you will be appalled at dancing for others.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#74Hm, I guess I should mention last two jobs, because I am just two months in with my current job.
Previous: Started as an intern during first year of my 2-year masters. Went to their recruiter during their open-house. Told me there would be an entrance exam on some date, if I am interested. I was, did well enough on the exam, then started in the QA part of the organization, later upgraded to full time epmloyment, and spent 6 years in the company :)
Current: a friend of mine was complainig over beer that they are looking for more senior QA people. I joked that I might actually send them my CV. In the end I did, and they gave a me good enough offer. So I switched companies.
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#75Nothing exciting here. I found the job online and submitted my application. One interesting bit though is that I initially tried to intro my way in - there was someone at the company whom I worked with several years ago. I reached out to ask for an intro. Did not receive a response even with follow up.
Generally speaking intros are more important as the company gets bigger. More noise for recruiters to shift through from official channels.
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#76I moved from Australia to Sweden a bit under six years ago because I wanted to work in games again and Australia didn't have much of a game dev industry at the time. From there it was pretty normal/boring: applied for a job through the company's website listings, got a call about a week later to set up an interview, came in for the interview, royally messed up surprise test during the interview. The interview went ok otherwise and I asked to take the test sheets home with me to review. After getting home I realized how simple this thing is and I was just too nervous to see it in the moment. Wrote another email to the in-house recruiter with my solution to the test, requesting that they pass it on to the interviewers. Thankfully they did and I got an offer about a week later. Overall from moving to applying to signing a contract took a bit under two months.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I could pass a Facebook interview I could finally be happy. I envy you.
As someone who works at Amazon and has been rejected by Facebook, don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision. There's a lot more to life, and you deserve to be happy regardless of whatever else happens.
Absolutely. I encourage the previous poster to get yourself to a point where you are happy with your current situation. Do more things that make you happy in your day to day, find things you can get lost in "flow", invest more in important personal relationships / give more, start a gratitude journal, etc.
Ironically once you can be happy without Facebook, you are actually more likely to get into Facebook or whatever company because you'll be more detached from the outcome and more able to focus.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#78Became interested in a startup's technology and joined their developer community. I build some small examples and offered my help here and there.
After helping out (paid) they kept asking for more assistance. I asked to formalise my relationship with them and got the job.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
#79I attended a local hackathon. I spent around 3/4 hours creating a real-time collaborative music maker (it was super basic, but pretty cool).
Unbeknownst to myself, whilst I was demoing my app my boss to be was watching and my simple music maker and was rather impressed. 18 months later when a suitable role opened up he reached out to me on LinkedIn and asked me in for a chat. A month later I started.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> don't hinge your happiness on something as random as an interview decision This is easier for senior folks. At some point you just know the rejection was a failure of their interview process and not your ineptitude. I have failed several interviews at different companies where I was one of the best people _in the world_ for the job due to my domain expertise. It's a roll of the dice for everyone, but earlier in my…
I’m not there. I think I’m not the smartest guy around but I want to achieve my dreams and achieve upward class mobility. But today I’m stuck.
Keep trying, and don’t take it to your heart. The whole interview circus is stupid and everybody knows it. The only people who think they’re the smartest around are the ones who never worked with folks who are truly, freakishly gifted. I’ve been lucky in that regard, so I no longer have any illusions about my intellectual prowess. Over time you will see that intellect isn’t everything, nor does it guarantee success. Stay in the industry, change jobs every 2 years, put yourself in the path of serendipity, and do a good job. Mobility will come eventually.