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Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by mhitza »

AznHisoka wrote: post #71

>> The second problem is that it is not possible to get only the latest ads (in LinkedIn) for example ads that are less than a week old. So I ended up having to page through a lot of ads I had already seen This is by far the worst thing about searching for jobs in LinkedIn. It is horribly inconvenient to simply find the most recent jobs posted in the past 24 hours because all of the old promoted jobs are taking up 90…

There is a filter to only show jobs posted in the last 24 hours. But even when I had searches saves with the 24 filter applied, I still had to manually enable it when going back into the results page.

Probably because that way they can sell companies the idea "look your job post was viewed over 9000 times" even if it's noise for people briwsing these ads.

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by Clubber »

eloisant wrote: post #30
Clubber wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when on-site interviews were an hour and that was it. All this stuff companies do now is insane. If a person isn't performant, you'll know within 30 days, but you'll never know by interviewing them. I haven't had to cold interview in 20+ years. I hope I never have to based on how it works now. I get all my jobs from previous colleagues. Companies are closing the door to a lot of great talent based on this…

I interviewed at Google nearly 15 years ago and it was already phone screen + a marathon of on-site interviews. Maybe 4 in a row.

Ya Google kinda pioneered that. It helps that Google makes millionaires out of many of its employees over 15 years. Would you go through that process for say Baskin and Robbins corporate?

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by brailsafe »

sunsunsunsun wrote: post #4
arter4 wrote: post #2

>For a typical job there were four or five interviews: an initial interview with a recruiter, an interview with a hiring manager, one or two technical interviews (either live coding, or going through a take-home assignment). There could also be an interview with a product manager, and/or one with a CTO or founder. All in all, quite a time commitment. This is not news at this point, but it is pretty crazy.

We have lost candidates at my company which we had pretty much already decided were a fit after 1-2 interviews but we're still forced to go through the rigmarole of these extra interviews over several weeks. It's not just crazy it's also a waste of time and resources.

I've lost out on numerous jobs after the 5 interview mark, often only receiving an automated "thanks for your interest". In one case it was multiple consecutive shorter interviews with random people on the team, after a take home assignment, etc.. it's incredibly defeating.

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by xdennis »

willsmith72 wrote: post #87
neilv wrote: post #74

> Key Elements for Job Search Microsite > * Have a professional profile picture I don't do this, for two reasons: 1. Being a photographer taught me that I'm much better on the buttons side of the camera, not the lens side. 2. Photos really don't belong in hiring in the US. Due to the long history of unfair prejudices, which are still ongoing in some ways. Even better would be if we could remove names, for being cues…

Yeah I was shocked by this as well moving from Australia to Germany, it's a euro thing. Some will even put "single" or "married" on their cv, though I'm told that's dying out

> it's a euro thing

Yep. The Europass CV standard still uses photos on the CV.

Examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=europass+cv+example&t=lm&iax=image...

I don't think tech people add photos though. (I don't.)

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by oortoo »

angarg12 wrote: post #103

I'm a ML Engineer at FAANG and I have been passively looking for the last half year. Common wisdom might make you think that I should be having companies throwing wads of cash at me, but my experience has been very different. * It's true that my profile attracts many messages from recruiters. However ghosting is the name of the game. More than half of recruiters have ghosted me at different stages of the process. Ove…

Obviously, learning all popular tech stacks is not entirely realistic, but IMO when a SE or any engineer is looking for work, at least 1-2 months of researching and getting proficient with the full breadth of what's out there for your interest is going to pay off.

Unless you are moving jobs to just do the exact same thing somewhere else (who wants that) you kind of have to take it on yourself to show up the the interview appearing like an expert in skills you hope to get to really grow comfortable with on the job. You may even need to exaggerate your experience.

Ultimately, specialization should be more about how you think than what facts you know, but the hiring market won't see it that way, meaning you need to just get really good at faking it and not be afraid to back it up later after some late-night study sessions.

The other half of this is that 'levels' don't always translate across environments. Just find work that resonates with you, and you will move up. Obsessing over the level (or even the pay) is probably limiting.

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by flavius29663 »

bradly wrote: post #57
cdelsolar wrote: post #29

what's the database timeout answer? i would say something along the lines of 5 seconds max.

I lot of times questions like these are to see how someone thinks about problems. What questions do they ask to clarify the problem. I'm not saying this is good question for that, but I wouldn't assume questions have a "right" answer.

Exactly, this is a pretty bad sign for a senior dev, to just blurb out a number. What is the connection used for? End users, a backoffice tool, or a batch process? then he should have asked: what is our SLA? What's in the DB, how big are the objects, the queries? How frequent are they?

Even so, I wouldn't venture any number if you don't do some profiling or at least some tests with the most common data, and with edge cases. It can be anywhere between milliseconds and full seconds, maybe more?.

Reminds me of an interview once, I asked: the website is slow, you're in charge of it, what do you do? He just said "buy more servers"...slow down there, Rockefeller.

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by cabalamat »

> In the first one I failed, I had to write a limited chess program, that only supported two kinds of pieces. It needed a project structure, a data model, valid movements for the pieces, and tests. I started from nothing, and had to be send the solution in within two hours.

I've written programs to play chess and I doubt I could do this in 2 hours. If I did do it, it would be horrible buggy code.

Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by smileson2 »

BadHumans wrote: post #36

Bit of a rant but I also have been job hunting after a layoff and their experience sounds like a dream. I have only gotten email rejections thus far and only 1 phone screen. It feels like most of my rejections are just automatic emails. Some of them come same day. The most demoralizing thing happens when you get rejected for a job and then see a new listing for that same job go up just moments later. You were rejecte…

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Re: Finding a new software developer job

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Post by piecerough »

angarg12 wrote: post #103

I'm a ML Engineer at FAANG and I have been passively looking for the last half year. Common wisdom might make you think that I should be having companies throwing wads of cash at me, but my experience has been very different. * It's true that my profile attracts many messages from recruiters. However ghosting is the name of the game. More than half of recruiters have ghosted me at different stages of the process. Ove…

As a FAANG employee, working with ML, what do you want to get from other companies, besides more money?

It's hard to have more chips, for example. You run less experiments, you have less throughput in an already computationally tight environment.

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