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Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…
Pretty bad. I’ve got a lot of experience as an IC, manager, and leader, and it doesn’t seem to matter; companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in ”) or wedded to cargo cult methods (the leetcode places). I haven’t extensively tapped my network for referrals, but I get a bad vibe from those, too. I’ve hit up about six folks and they all came back empty - no opportunities, e…
> The only success I’ve heard is from folks grinding it out and playing the numbers game I'm still early in my career despite rising rapidly, so I've never had a job search that wasn't "just" a numbers game. But it's given me reasonable success, and something I've always wondered is: instead of painstakingly cultivating your resume for each job posting you come across, why not just write 1 accurate one and put that e…
ChatGPT can generate a custom resume and cover letter for each position you apply to that's hard to distinguish from the real thing. This makes all 100-1000+ applications look like rock stars.
How does a recruiter filter through all of that? How does a hiring manager?
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I like the idea of a resume canary. Can you share the gist of it?
It was a random (and facetious and probably bad) idea to include a bullet point that would elicit a “wait, what?” response from anyone who would read it. My resume highlights, as an academic achievement, that a professor once suspected me of illegal research. If someone brings it up, I’ll know they read through my resume. If they don’t bring it up, it may mean nothing. The former is a green flag, to me. I’d suggest s…
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That's definitely an awesome mindset. What helped you land your current job more? The network you already had or the cold messages?
Network I had. I add everyone I connect or work with at every job I have. Export a list of all email recipients, and Slack recipients, dedupe. Manually add everyone. I do this once a year.
I've been at the same company for 15 years. Last year we got a new line manager and he is a bully and makes a lot of our lives miserable, recently he started targeting me. I thought it'd be fine because I can move on with my experience but because of the market I feel trapped and I've now got depression from the stress and being unable to sleep. I take pride in my work and put in more hours than the team but there is no pleasing him and upper management don't care because they love his reports.
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I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…
I hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens. Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?
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Is there any chance you do this group virtually? I tried organizing a group a few year ago and almost got traction but it fizzled out as people moved on. I'm guessing you're in the bay area. I'm in SoCal, but would love to learn from someone like yourself who's been grinding it out and learning. Currently looking for a new position after several years at a company, but taking the long view (it's a marathon and not a…
i'm in socal and I work at FAANG, what are you interested in?
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I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…
The jsonip website has some odd behavior, if you add additional characters to the URL it looks like the server tries to run JSON.parse on the extra characters plus a payload. Wonder if there's a way to pollute the server or get remote code execution.
`https://jsonip.com/mortalcombat` `mortalcombat({"ip":"2601:645:4001:1b57:5832:dcb9:c236:59e4"});`
There's no parsing happening. If you are talking about something else, I'd love to know about whatever it is.
Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…
Looks like you expose your git repo in your web root, rookie :) geuis.com/.git/config