Sorry, but my reaction is I don't want to listen to this guy's angry rants at my workplace.
I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
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#12Indeed. Those people obviously never took introductory economics.
Mistakes of this magnitude are never made innocently.
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#13I just want to know which company cried on NPR about skilled labor shortage that made this person so angry.
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#14I literally can’t relate to this on any level. I’m an HM at a company that pays on the order of a FANG and at best matches one of these credentialist barriers and yet we can’t come close to hiring targets on devs.
I don’t get how people can see the plethora of individuals under 10yrs experience in SWE and other tech roles in SV/NYC/SEA with incomes of $250-600k/yr and think this happens without a “shortage” of talent.
Shortage in quotes because it’s hard to define in context of supply/demand but it’s clearly the case that devs have a lot of bargaining power.
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#15As a college student, 1. is the one that worries the most. Automatic filtering is scary, and there's no way to test how these ATS systems are viewing my resume.
Don't worry about it. This post is a load of horse shit.
If you're a competent dev, move to a place with a good tech scene and you'll do fine.
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#17Another broken thing is LeetCode style of programming exercises asked for a job asking 15+ yrs of experience. Not saying we do not solve complex stuff on a day to day basis, but foundational problems are already solved & we have patterns/solutions/libraries available. We do not do DFS/BFS on a day to day. We do have Stackoverflow, Google to figure things out.
FAANG companies - filtering candidates by asking tough LeetCode questions, which is understandable. But what is with Startups? If someone can solve hard LeetCode problems why would they join Startups? They will join FAANG. Startups are blindly copying FAANG before becoming FAANG themselves.
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#18I great many salient points. I've been a hiring manager for many years now, and in the last few years a candidate twice so I've had recent exposure to the 'current trends'. It's difficult to strike a good balance between filtering for candidates that will be a good fit, and missing out on ones that would be great, but don't fall into the job description square box. I also wrote some comments on this problem last year https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-hiring-engineers-rob...
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#19As a college student, 1. is the one that worries the most. Automatic filtering is scary, and there's no way to test how these ATS systems are viewing my resume.
Automatic filtering is annoying, but there are plenty of tools that will scan your resume and tell you what keywords they find. I once spent weeks crafting a catchy looking resume with a fixed width font and ascii art. It didn't get any responses, and I didn't understand why until I put it through one of these scanners and realized that the program I had used to save the PDF had strangely encoded all of the text in reverse, so I wasn't passing any of the automatic filters. The takeaway: test your resume with a scanner!
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#20> The general rudeness is ridiculous. I once had an interviewer ask me if I was a wizard with GO, C++, Rust, and C over the phone. Then when I said I had some experience with rust, he immediately cursed at me and hung up.
> This experience is fairly common.
Is it? I've done a fair bit of interviewing on both sides of the table, and can say with complete honesty I've never heard a curse said in anger in any of them. I've also never heard of it happening from a co-worker or friend.