(S)he's not very likable so I wouldn't bother if were you.
Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
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Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#112I have to say, after inheriting a code base from Max(@mxcl), its sad that anyone would reject him. Hes pretty much the guy that gave me the first sane introduction to cacoa programming. - That being said, I was rejected from a company because I hadn't used binutil in python. - I find I can pass any interview with a confident low voice more consistently than by showing my technical expertise. - People are interested i…
I agree. I was rejected not too long ago by a startup with a reason that they thought I belonged in a more corporate environment (I never indicated so). In my experience if a company really needs someone they are much more receptive, otherwise they just come up with a BS like that and worse.
> they thought I belonged in a more corporate environment
That's their way of saying they either can't afford you or you are too smart to be worked to death for 0.0001% stock.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> multi decade slave train If you want to have "made it", go start a startup. Being an employee generally means working 40-60 hour weeks for other people's dreams.
Working for 2+ decades while making something like $150k+ a year on average over the long term , and retiring with substantial savings , without having worked 100 hour weeks on the startup lottery , sounds pretty awesome to me. Don't know maybe I'm not elite founder material.
Different strokes for different folks. Some people use airplanes for transportation, others go skydiving. The start-up lottery is a very fast way to learn a lot and probably not earn much, think of it as a school rather than a money making machine and it makes a lot more sense. If you then later apply all that you learned during those years in a non-start-up context you may still come out ahead.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#114Oh no, highly skilled mostly white males experiencing temporary setbacks, won't anyone think about how hard they have it? They made it eventually and you can too! Never mind the dozens of stories without a happy ending as whole groups of people get funneled into the "discouraged worker" pool to keep them out of the U3 unemployment rate. I wish more effort like this was put into mentoring/training/recruiting underrepr…
There is a latino guy there. Did you not see him?
Is not most of the western world populated by white people? I'm not apologizing for being a white, male developer, my grandfathers fought the Nazis so that I could sit in a warm office and write code.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#115I recently interviewed at very hot container startup. I had 1 phone screen, 6 on-sites, and 2 follow up phone calls. I did well in the phone screen to be invited onsite. Apparently, I did great on the 6 interviews onsite and then they wanted to have a follow up phone call with a manager (30 mins). That was positive too. But, the last phone call was set up with the SVP who determined that I was not a good "culture fit…
starts with D, btw.
Sounds like it ended with a D. Ba-Boom-tish!
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#117I live in Zurich and I used to code for a living. Now, I hire engineers for different startups in Switzerland. As I got deeper into IT-recruiting, I realised that candidate filtering at the top of the funnel is fundamentally broken. Especially in Europe companies expect a CS degree and don't appreciate self-taught skills as much as in the US. I am trying to change this. If you look for a tech-job in the most liveable…
Could the difference be due to education being cheaper and thus there being fewer reasons to forego it?
More people have degrees in Europe as it does not cost money. Also, the standard of education dropped and the exams are easier to pass.
I know from experience that a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (considered a very good school) was harder to get before 2008 than it is now.
In the killer-subjects like discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science and algorithms we had failing-rates of 80%.
I can image the German government asked for "more CS grads" and after this the professors started to introduce one problem in each exam that anyone could pass who practised a bit and / or wasn't entirely stupid. The other two to three problems were still on a high level, and if you wanted a top-grade, you still had to solve those. As a result the failing-rate for the mentioned killer-subjects dropped from 80% to 20-30%.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could the difference be due to education being cheaper and thus there being fewer reasons to forego it?
More people have degrees in Europe as it does not cost money. Also, the standard of education dropped and the exams are easier to pass. I know from experience that a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (considered a very good school) was harder to get before 2008 than it is now. In the killer-subjects like discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science and algorithms we had failing-rat…
> As a result the failing-rate for the mentioned killer-subjects is dropped from 80% to 20-30%.
Do you have any links to back that up?
I'm not studying at TUM but I'd be really surprised if there's a 80% pass rate for those subjects.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#119Many years ago I had an interview for a job I really wanted - all day event with chats with multiple people including the CEO. Pretty sure it was my chat with the CEO that killed my application. I was absolutely gutted.
8 years later the same chap was the first angel investor in the startup I co-founded and worked with us as Chairman for a number of years before the company was acquired.
I never did ask him if he remembered rejecting me!
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing wrong with JavaScript, as long as we are talking about ES2015. And even when WebAssembly comes along, the best language to program it in is one that naturally requires asynchronous programming, because web browsers are heavy on network traffic and UI interaction and both those things need asynchronous programming. Other languages like Python have asynch programming but I would suggest that the pervasive natur…
JavaScript is a perfectly fine language but... I find the 'ecosystem' unpleasant. Every time I turn to JavaScript for something, the barrier to entry for non trivial work rises. JavaScript feels to me... As a programmer working 8 hours a day in Python much significant portions of it doing Django, and a few hours a week learning Elixir, C and Rust... Like the whole world is rolling up a giant katamari daciamacy ball,…
> As a programmer working 8 hours a day in Python much significant portions of it doing Django, and a few hours a week learning Elixir, C and Rust
I think that you've already made your priorities loud and clear and JS isn't one of them.