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Oh 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…
(S)he's not very likable so I wouldn't bother if were you.
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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.
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Most recruiters are terrible. The other day I was asked to fill a form (skills, work experience, personal details, the whole thing - in great detail) before the recruiter would even tell me the name of the company he is trying to hire for. I knew arguing with him is futile, so I didn't. Job search in general is a depressing experience, even when it is easy. Good recruiters are extremely rare :( My funniest experience…
I'm a great recruiter! My approach is to help both sides understand the other side's needs completely before signing on the dotted line. I'm only happy when everyone else is. I also only work with people I would want to work with in the future, and that goes for both sides :) Are you looking for something right now? If you are, I'll dig through your HN comment history and try to understand your needs and desires. If…
I love this, but it could go even further: Blaine Cook was "rejected" from Twitter after years of hard work. But he faced an insane scaling problem, and most of us would look bad if we faced the same set of problems. Steve Jobs was "rejected" by Apple after years of hard work. Or my all time favorite: John Lasseter was fired from Disney because he was too enthusiastic about cutting edge digital animation (rather than…
TBH, I don't think that Lasseter would be able to do what he did if he stayed at Disney. So one could argue that Disney's decisions were good for them in the long run.
How many talented people have been fired or never hired, but you never hear about them because they don't make a spectacular come-back?
If hiring is as random as it seems to be, there's going to be a massive pool of wasted talent.
It's interesting how all these top companies insist on JS expertise, I didn't know that it was so important for an interview and that's something I need to work on.
Dude you'll always have to do something with HTML/CSS/JS. Even if its not your main gig. Luckily all three are fairly simple. Just go make a simple webapp without any libraries and from that you'll pick up 99% of what you'd need to know.
I 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…