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Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by thrw42A8N »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #139
thrw42A8N wrote: post #99

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Try to get a job in finance, accounting, marketing, law, or other kinds of engineering. 7+ rounds of interviews, weird pop-psych questions, even getting a reply/meeting is a problem ...

"It's bad everywhere" or "it's worse elsewhere" does not mean it's not bad "Other people have it worse" is not a compelling reason to make people believe their own shitty situation is good Maybe we could improve the interviewing in all industries? But we could start with Software since that's where most of the people on this board work

I don't think SWE interviews are bad. And I have no idea who's the "we" that's supposed to fix it globally.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by lapcat »

tartoran wrote: post #131
lapcat wrote: post #95

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It's interesting how much stereotyping is happening in these replies. The fact is that there's nothing unique about any age group, and the only difference between them is their birth dates. Intragenerational differences are always larger than intergenerational differences. In any age group, there are varying degrees of competence, varying degrees of attitude, varying degrees of personal circumstances (e.g., home, fam…

I think the OP was referring to experience not age. Older devs have seen the landscape change so much and if it makes full circle again that experience will pay off.

Experience can be valuable, but it's not automatically valuable. Plenty of people completely fail to learn from their long experience. Others learn very quickly from their limited experience.

The paragon is talent plus experience plus willingness to learn from experience. Admittedly, more older devs than younger devs will have this combination, but "social promotion" is no guarantee of success.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by randomdata »

greenie_beans wrote: post #121
randomdata wrote: post #105

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> i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true. There is research that has shown that men are, on average, better at single-focus tasks. And, indeed, it was huge news at the time the research was published – at least as huge as being reported in major news publications is. It wouldn't be huge news now. We quickly grow bored and tired of widely reported things from the…

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Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by tartoran »

lapcat wrote: post #142
tartoran wrote: post #131

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I think the OP was referring to experience not age. Older devs have seen the landscape change so much and if it makes full circle again that experience will pay off.

Experience can be valuable, but it's not automatically valuable. Plenty of people completely fail to learn from their long experience. Others learn very quickly from their limited experience. The paragon is talent plus experience plus willingness to learn from experience. Admittedly, more older devs than younger devs will have this combination, but "social promotion" is no guarantee of success.

Yeah, it's not automatic. Nowadays it seems that experience is not only ignored, but almost discouraged.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by kjksf »

greenie_beans wrote: post #93
throw111424 wrote: post #72

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> From my experience there are relatively few women who really get in the trenches. have you ever heard of the word "bias"? > Staring at logs in a terminal and sifting through endless YAML not so much. i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true. and yes, you sound like a reactionary. coward ass throwaway account.

Name a prominent open source project created be and led by a woman.

Who created and contributes to linux kernel, python, c, c++, go, python, ruby, ruby on rails, php, wordpress, ghost, SumatraPDF, zig, oding, nim, nodejs, deno, bun.

I could just keep listing major open source projects because I literally cannot think of a single one created and led by a woman.

And if you find one, it still doesn't negate the 100 to 1 ratio.

Open source, unlike jobs, are pure meritocracy. A woman can create a GitHub account and start coding just as easily as a man. There are no gatekeepers and open source contributors / maintainers are abused by random people as a matter of course.

To me it's reality. To you, somehow, saying that out loud is bias.

And to be clear: I don't think there's anything preventing women from learning to code and contributing at a high level and I've known a few that do. But for some reason they overwhelmingly don't. The stats are brutal.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by throw111424 »

AlexMoffat wrote: post #107
throw111424 wrote: post #72

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The words you're looking for aren't conservative or reactionary they are bigoted and asshole. Best software engineer I've ever worked with is a woman, the rest had exactly the same range of ability as the men. Overall though a much lower level of entitled ignorance than "guys like us".

I don't doubt this. But it's the exception to the rule, isn't it?

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

GenerWork wrote: post #28

I've been unemployed for 4 months. While I have received a job offer, it would require me to move and either sell my house, rent it out, or just continue to pay the mortgage on top of rent. I'm torn as to what to do as I do need a job, but I don't want to leave my friends and family. My thoughts go out to everybody else out there looking for a job at this time.

Damn, that situation really sucks. Hope you’ll be okay no matter what choice you make!

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

friggeri wrote: post #3

One piece of advice I usually give is to avoid applying to jobs through company’s career websites or LinkedIn. Instead, tap your social network: see if there is someone you know/have worked with who either works at the company you’re interested in or is connected to it someone (as an advisor, investor, personal friend of someone in a leadership position) and ask them for a warm intro. Social proof gives you an advant…

Yeah, that’s a good point. I often ask my network for help, and it gets results. But still, I think I get more feedback when applying through the careers page.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

herbertl wrote: post #21
OccamsMirror wrote: post #7

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> Instead, tap your social network Do you have experience with doing this in a way that doesn't come across as desperate or too forward? How close do you need to be with this network? Is Linkedin connection enough, or would you only do this approach with people you've worked with?

I like to think of it more as being intentional, and less as desperate/too forward. You want to know what you're looking for and, just as important, what you're not looking for. In terms of reaching out, here are some things I did when I was job hunting: 1. The classic referral Find the job post and work backwards from there (e.g., is there somebody I know (1st connection) or somebody who knows somebody I know (2nd c…

This is really great advice. Thank you!

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by snapcaster »

mathverse wrote: post #113
briandear wrote: post #101

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The bar has been lowered in many respects. 14 years experience, 5 of them at a FAANG. Successful startup exit for a small company I founded, and and endless array of India-based recruiters that, for example, want me to mention “Ruby 3.2” in my resume when the resume says I have 14 years of Ruby experience including using it daily in my present job. I could literally say “I invented Ruby and have worked with it daily…

Indians,Brazilians,Portuguese,Ukrainians,Russians are possibly the worst clique of discriminative nationalities. You can be 100% assured that you will be driven out of a company/job if more of them take a hold and get into higher up positions. This is not racism. This is a pure fact based on statistical evidence. You will be sold a dream of infinite scalability by hiring "talent" in those countries for cheap and what…

Can you link some of the facts/evidence?
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