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Always remember there is zero job security if you lack significant equity ownership, and there is no safety net except the one you (or collective action) demand or create.
>After he was rejected for the sales job, the company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,” according to the EEOC. And that's why companies don't tell you why they didn't choose you.
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I have had multiple companies tell me they are looking to hire female or PoC developers during an interview before, I never knew I could get 90k for it!
That discrimination is often explicitly legal, although one wonders how companies in the United States get away with such things since the US has constitutional protections against institutional racism.
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So much this. Once you learn a particular programming paradigm (functional, OOP, etc.), the differences between languages in that paradigm are mostly syntactic, and learning a new syntax is pretty easy. And there are only a small handful of different paradigms. If you've been developing long enough, you've probably become competent in most, if not all, of them.
> learning a new syntax is pretty easy. Going from C++ to eg Python or Java isn't much fun. Try going to Haskell or Rust, with the borrow checker.
I can switch to another programming language and write the For Loops and branching logic and all that jazz no problem. But there's often a lot of nuances that you just don't know and it takes a while to accumulate that knowledge. Those are usually referred to as "Best Practices" and there usually isn't a single source of truth document out on the Internet or anywhere to learn all of them.
They just come with experience and time, and maybe if you're lucky mentorship from a more experienced dev who knows those practices.
This is very clear to me having watched Java devs flounder their way through building JavaScript microservices using all of the old Gang of Four patterns and basically zero of the modern ES functionality.
>After he was rejected for the sales job, the company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,” according to the EEOC. And that's why companies don't tell you why they didn't choose you.
I have had multiple companies tell me they are looking to hire female or PoC developers during an interview before, I never knew I could get 90k for it!
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Unfortunately many companies make use of their ATS mandatory when applying for a job and those systems usually require start and end dates for all but your current job. Even if ATS doesn't requirement, HR likely will when they do employment verification.
You mean they're going to make me put on a resume that I bagged groceries at Food Lizard in the mid 1980's? No. No they're not.
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How are you filling out an application in your 40s? Shouldn't you be getting poached from every job due to former colleagues wanting to work with you?
Yes, but be careful. If you have an interview and the offer comes too easily, due to internal referral or whatever, it should raise a red flag. You may be stepping into a big pile of crap (based on personal experience where this happened a couple of times.)
>After he was rejected for the sales job, the company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,” according to the EEOC. And that's why companies don't tell you why they didn't choose you.