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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 snapcaster »

joshuaturner wrote: post #62
rsanek wrote: post #57

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If you're giving remote interviews, your loop should assume candidates can use AI. it's like giving a take home math test that assumes people won't use calculators at this point

I disagree. We pretty explicitly ask candidates to not use AI. While it's fine when doing the job the purpose of the interview is to gauge your ability to understand and solve problems, while AI can help you with that you understanding how to do it yourself signals that you'll be able to solve other more complex wider-spanning problems. Just like with a calculator - it's important for candidates to know _why_ somethi…

>We pretty explicitly ask candidates to not use AI.

This doesn't work, because regardless of what the rules say if i think all my competitors are using AI (and you won't be able to reliably detect it) i'll feel pressured to use it as well. This is true of any advantage (spending extra time on 2 hour takehome assignment is the classic version of this)

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by throw111424 »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #122
throw111424 wrote: post #72

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It's so peculiar that the man who thinks few women are willing to "get in the trenches" never sees women really getting into the trenches. It must definitely be because that's just how all women are. And definitely not because most women choose not to work with you or a company that perpetuates that idea.

> It's so peculiar that the man who thinks few women are willing to "get in the trenches" never sees women really getting into the trenches.

I have seen women in the trenches but I don't see how that contradicts my claim that they are relatively few and there's probably a reason despite all the efforts to bring more women into tech.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

trentnix wrote: post #13

I’m going through a similar experience after being laid off back in July for the first time in my career. The jobs advertised are quite often less-than-inspiring, the hiring processes are weird and opaque, and the hiring team is frequently disorganized and unprofessional. An interviewer last week was straight out of a Silicon Valley storyline, asking a “if you were on an elevator with Marc Andreessen” question and ex…

Good luck! Hope we both find something suitable soon

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by greenie_beans »

kjksf wrote: post #145
greenie_beans wrote: post #93

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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…

go ask claude to give you feedback about this comment, because it shows a misunderstanding of how a male-dominated society works if this is what you think about women in tech.

edit: nvm i did about this entire comment thread: https://claude.site/artifacts/b1f6e916-a21b-420b-9081-dec62b... and specifically responding to all of your claims: https://claude.site/artifacts/401d407d-ef53-4cdf-84fd-cd79b5...

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

greenie_beans wrote: post #87

all of these posts make me feel grateful that i've been able to pick up work. it also makes me wonder what i'm doing right and what all of these bloggers are doing wrong. bloggers are clearly good at marketing and communicating what they can do for a company, which is what a lot of software developers struggle with.

Yeah, my marketing background helped me land my first tech job

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by skaplich »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #4

Good luck, Sergey. In my case, the process became so awful, humiliating, and hostile, I just gave up, and retired, ten years before I had planned. I’m very fortunate, that I could afford it. I now develop software for free, for outfits that can’t afford people like me. It’s tough, but looking for work after 50, especially when pivoting from management, back to IC, is unbearable. My heart goes out to those without the…

Thanks, Chris. Love your story!

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by svilen_dobrev »

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.

move temporarily. 3 months. 6 months. ..

do not do any other drastic changes (selling houses, divorcing, whatever).

Decide what to do then.

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by greenie_beans »

skaplich wrote: post #155
greenie_beans wrote: post #87

all of these posts make me feel grateful that i've been able to pick up work. it also makes me wonder what i'm doing right and what all of these bloggers are doing wrong. bloggers are clearly good at marketing and communicating what they can do for a company, which is what a lot of software developers struggle with.

Yeah, my marketing background helped me land my first tech job

yep. saying, "data engineer who can turn your messy data into a data visualization or interactive map" is so much more powerful than saying "data engineer with 10 years of experience leading projects with python, aws, kubernetes"

Re: Looking for a Job Is Tough

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Post by randomdata »

greenie_beans wrote: post #157
randomdata wrote: post #143

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RIP

dang, i guess i'll die never knowing the truth

I assumed you were already dead by the time I got to reading your response. One does not normally tell you that they are dying if they expect to still be around for a long time. Shame on me for assuming. What is the expected lifespan for someone diagnosed with your condition?
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