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Once I’ve gotten a job, a question coworker asked: how did some of these other people around me get through the interview process.
GoDaddy rejected me a year after I applied and only realized it when a recruiter was trying to input me into their system. I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process. Because of that experience, I make it a point that every single candidate deserves a yes or no response…
> I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process. I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares. As a candidate your only option is to move on or write a bad glassdoor if you are so inclined and move on.
Just give yourself some time to go through the sad period, and then power through the next one.
Luck is a high factor in getting a job anyway.
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Deputy Director jobs in the UK Civil Service aren’t actually that senior. They tend to pay around £75k, or $100k US, which is a pretty decent wage for the general population but not quite at levels.fyi rates.
Sorry since when is over double the median wage 'decent'. Some people on this forum have their head in their arses when it comes to money.
I can't even remember the 80-85 jobs I've applied for in the last 7 months.
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I'd argue that not being able to program in C marks someone as not serious about programming, but that's mostly because I know and like C.
I didn't say it was the only criteria, just that it is one.
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Out of hundreds of applicants I screen, very few even have the skill to implement a standard algorithm with recursion in a language of their choice that I explain meticulously.
If it's really that standard, then wouldn't we just use a library for it to cut out a large portion of the development, testing, and maintenance?
Susan Tan Rants and Ruminations From A Job Applicant After 100 CS Job Interviews in Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzz5AaCWMps
My recent job search adventures https://medium.com/@arctansusan/my-adventures-in-job-searchi...
I really liked the airtable at the end of that post: https://airtable.com/shrL4aSSKldQHTtM3
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>USD $100k is ~4 year experience software engineer salary. Not in the UK, though.
Point still stands. UK software engineer median wages are above UK national median wages.
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Honestly I think recursion is overrated. Does anyone here really write recursive functions in production? I mean it takes up stack space (which on some systems is a systemparameter), creates functioncall overhead and has rarely advantages. Trees have more natural recursive structures, but then you basically always have cache misses making your program orders of magnitude slower than if you can fit the data in a linea…
If you can take a problem where I'm thinking of a recursive solution as the interviewer, but you can come up with an iterative solution and explain why you think it's better, I would give you full marks.
Of course I will be embarressed soon, when it is only me who doesnt use recursion in production. :-)