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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by steve_coral »

yodsanklai wrote: post #176
uVacCXNiiJCTnYB wrote: post #124

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Honestly, Facebook has tried to hire me like 3 times now and every time I got a completed offer at a different job by the time they finished organising their 8-step interview process so I never finished it. FAANG might be interesting but their interview processes kill it for me. I have no idea how people find the time to do homework for it + are willing to spend months in this lengthy interview pipeline. (Also there…

FAANG is mostly 3 steps. 1. chat with the recruiter 2. screening interview 3. on-site interview You normally get an offer after 3. EDIT: I'm downvoted, but this was my experience at Google/Facebook. There were exactly three steps. There can be more if they ask a follow up if you're borderline in some of the interviews but it's not the default.

What about the team-matching portion of the Google interview? I had several post-"onsite" (it was all remote) interviews with interested teams and your performance in these can sink your chances.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?

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Post by janee »

I'd say start with industry sector or company size. Go directly to the company rather than a recruiter, a good ol email showing genuine interest goes a long way.

E.g. be the first dev hire, or look for IT related work in Antarctica...heck go all in and become a co-founder with someone.

I think there's lots of interesting work out there, it's just often reverse correlated to your long term wellbeing haha

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Post by npteljes »

epr19 wrote: post #134
7373737373 wrote: post #43

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Interesting downside of human psychology/market dynamics, if many want to help others e.g. as nurses or teachers, that positive trait is punished financially due to the high number of applicants

Yeah, the "passion tax" is real unfortunately. :/

100%. And we don't need to look far for examples: game studios treat their staff rather poorly too. Supposedly for the same passion tax reasons.

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Post by mxuribe »

uVacCXNiiJCTnYB wrote: post #99
mxuribe wrote: post #51

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> ...I recently got rejected at one job at the CV stage for "not having enough React experience" because my last job was in Vue so I wasn't technically using React in recent years (even though it's an extremely similar area of expertise)... Ah, yes, the same old story that HR (or hiring manager) took the job description waaaay too literal, and missing the idea that a halfway decent technologist or developer can/shoul…

Yeah, I'm pretty bitter about it too. I've seen it in both industries I've worked at, it's so bad. Actual technical recruiters will contact me and be interested despite me barely matching their stack, and I once god hired on a job doing a technical test on a language I had (almost) never used before. But if I try actually applying to a job with my CV? Often rejected because I don't have keyword X. The same company wo…

Yeah I once got a job that way (and believe it or not, minus the test). Job hunting is broken period. /sigh

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Post by brigandish »

7373737373 wrote: post #43
mcv wrote: post #8

The weird irony of our society seems to be that the most useless jobs pay the most, while the most essential jobs pay the least. A lot of important work is being done by volunteers and charity organisations. The best paying jobs are often parasitic. Like stock manipulation.

Interesting downside of human psychology/market dynamics, if many want to help others e.g. as nurses or teachers, that positive trait is punished financially due to the high number of applicants

Isn't the truth really that those are simply jobs a lot of people can do and hence, don't attract much compensation? I would also wonder if there's a way to differentiate oneself in the market so that a good teacher could improve my salary much beyond that of the mean, than an average teacher.

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Post by hgs3 »

uVacCXNiiJCTnYB wrote: post #184
sicp-enjoyer wrote: post #175

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Unsolicited advice: I think you're right, nobody will pay you for it. Every serious programmer interested in game dev writes engines as a hobby. Just search through GitHub. It's partly because it's just tech exploration fun.. If you're serious about games you should make a game. Build an engine too, but only build what you need for the game. This will guide you in making the countless tradeoffs necessary to build an…

I worked in the game industry for years and left it, I've made games before. The engine I'm making is for a very specific need (initially made to help someone else make a specific game), a few people have been using it to make their games, but it's a pretty niche thing for narrative games - https://get-narrat.com/ I'm making it for fun, but I don't expect something like that to ever make money, for that I'd need some…

Don't be discouraged. You're more likely to succeed by targeting a niche.
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