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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by xandrius »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #79
xandrius wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point was that even getting 1 interview can take ages these days.

Yeah, it's a lot of work, I agree. You have to spend 2-3 hours a day filling out applications. More if you can muster the patience for it. But if you commit to 5 applications per day (admittedly that's a heavy workload) that's 150 applications a month. You should be able to get at least 5 offers to interview out of that. And of those 1/10 will offer you a job. Which means you will be picking from 4 job offers. That's…

That heavily depends on your situation: if you have an unusual setup (say non-US remote senior looking in the US), the numbers go down quite significantly. I currently just got 1 interview out of 600+ applications (counting Easy Applies and such on LinkedIn).

Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by n4r9 »

haiku2077 wrote: post #55
n4r9 wrote: post #23

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I'd be curious to know what tea they think is better, and what kind of tea they're drinking. When it comes to English breakfast tea, it's normally a blend of black tea leaf fannings from India, Sri Lanka, and Africa. Imo there's not that much objective difference in quality between brands like Yorkshire Tea, PG Tips, Twinings, Red/Gold Label, Tetleys etc... . A lot of it comes down to subjective taste. For example, t…

I've got some single-source tea in my fridge that's significantly better than the supermarket blend. It's different every season though. https://obubutea.com

You keep the leaves in the fridge? Does it make a difference?

Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by fred_is_fred »

Frankly this guy sounds exhausting and I can't help but think that his snarky and superior attitude is causing him problems in his job search.

Also - who does this?

> so I call their front desk to get ahold of the person that's listed on the job application, and then it all gets weird.

Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by trimethylpurine »

xandrius wrote: post #81
trimethylpurine wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's a lot of work, I agree. You have to spend 2-3 hours a day filling out applications. More if you can muster the patience for it. But if you commit to 5 applications per day (admittedly that's a heavy workload) that's 150 applications a month. You should be able to get at least 5 offers to interview out of that. And of those 1/10 will offer you a job. Which means you will be picking from 4 job offers. That's…

That heavily depends on your situation: if you have an unusual setup (say non-US remote senior looking in the US), the numbers go down quite significantly. I currently just got 1 interview out of 600+ applications (counting Easy Applies and such on LinkedIn).

Okay. I understand the difficulty now. I'm very sorry, but that's a clear indication that your skill set (or value prop) is not in demand (i.e. the market is saturated).

Add skills to your offerings. Change career paths.

Start by looking at what people are hiring for and who is making money. You can find statistics from tax agencies, government labor departments, etc.

Good luck.

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Post by mariusor »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #73
mariusor wrote: post #72

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I got that, but my question was "why?" on both accounts.

I can think of a lot of answers. 1. You don't care what others think. 2. GitHub is trying to be social media. 3. Lots of code is useless because it serves as some specific compatibly for an ad hoc process that someone a long time ago automated wrong. 4. Publishing code to GitHub requires effort in making it look readable to someone who isn't doing what you're doing. 5. If you don't do #4, you'll clutter up search res…

> Save the vanity for Facebook. We're trying to solve problems here.

Are you sure that's what you want to say to me as a closing comment? That's a terrible conclusion, and it paints you in a very unflattering light.

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Post by trimethylpurine »

mariusor wrote: post #86
trimethylpurine wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of a lot of answers. 1. You don't care what others think. 2. GitHub is trying to be social media. 3. Lots of code is useless because it serves as some specific compatibly for an ad hoc process that someone a long time ago automated wrong. 4. Publishing code to GitHub requires effort in making it look readable to someone who isn't doing what you're doing. 5. If you don't do #4, you'll clutter up search res…

> Save the vanity for Facebook. We're trying to solve problems here. Are you sure that's what you want to say to me as a closing comment? That's a terrible conclusion, and it paints you in a very unflattering light.

How so? Are you maybe adding some specific interpretation to my statement that would make it about you?

Try reading it like this: We can save the vanity for Facebook...

Or like this: I'd save the vanity for Facebook...

Or: Job seekers should save the vanity for Facebook...

I'm guessing you filled in the blank like this: Mariusor, you need to save the vanity for Facebook...

Always assume the best intentions. Hard to do in text.

Let me know if I'm missing your meaning.

Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by xandrius »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #85
xandrius wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That heavily depends on your situation: if you have an unusual setup (say non-US remote senior looking in the US), the numbers go down quite significantly. I currently just got 1 interview out of 600+ applications (counting Easy Applies and such on LinkedIn).

Okay. I understand the difficulty now. I'm very sorry, but that's a clear indication that your skill set (or value prop) is not in demand (i.e. the market is saturated). Add skills to your offerings. Change career paths. Start by looking at what people are hiring for and who is making money. You can find statistics from tax agencies, government labor departments, etc. Good luck.

Thanks!

From the various feedback I got, it seems that while remote US is rather common nowadays, remote non-US (by a US company) it's really not. And having worked for a US company in the past few years, it's really hard to change after that.

Re: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing

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Post by throwaway5959 »

itsoktocry wrote: post #75
throwaway5959 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand. Especially where technical leadership can’t rely on engineers to do anything but code with very strict guardrails.

> Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand. Understand what? This guy is contributing to horrible environments, not just a victim. Why are do so many tech people have such low agency?

I never said I would work for a place like that again. Just trying to explain why he may feel frustrated.

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Post by udev4096 »

surajrmal wrote: post #53
udev4096 wrote: post #36

The beauty of engineering cannot be found in a "corporate world". It's in the open source ecosystem, where the innovation happens

Interestingly, its open source projects that are largely led by corporate entities which I find the most beautiful.

It might be true to some extent. But there are quite a lot of projects, such as corejs, which gets tiny funding for the amount of significance it has on various large scale services
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