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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?

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I'm in bio research and not programming. Moral of the story is to cold-email people who are friends of friends. I have never got a job through my CV/resume. Current job I got via word of mouth and an email. My boss used professors he trusted and knew me to check I was okay. Previous job I got from a friend mentioning I should ask them. I emailed them and they gave me a job. Back before University I got two jobs in re…

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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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post #97

I'm in bio research and not programming. Moral of the story is to cold-email people who are friends of friends. I have never got a job through my CV/resume. Current job I got via word of mouth and an email. My boss used professors he trusted and knew me to check I was okay. Previous job I got from a friend mentioning I should ask them. I emailed them and they gave me a job. Back before University I got two jobs in re…

Are you the same ImaCake who once used to play Soldat, Minecraft also, cats?

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You've posted about this numerous times before. The first, extensive discussion may have had some intellectual curiosity, but at this point it's becoming repetitive and tedious. Please don't keep bringing it up. Edit: actually, I've banned this account because repeating this turns out to be all it's been doing. Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed here, and when you repeat something as much as this one has, it's in…

Thank you.
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