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Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by jgwil2 »

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #95
aspencer8111 wrote: post #35

Good on you man! You: 1. Dodged a bullet (booo on any company that would reject someone with this level of passion). 2. Created your own product (which you seem even more passionate about) 3. Did all the heavy lifting to make it interesting out of the gate (provided content). Wishing you all the success!

> 1. Dodged a bullet I'd argue that Codecademy dodged a bullet. Calling them out by name is in really bad taste IMO. Let's be honest: if he had launched a coding tutorial website thing and it didn't have the "comeback story" marketing narrative then no one would care.

If it's so easy to build a coding tutorial website, then what advantage does Codecademy have beyond name recognition? So you're not competing with their tech, you're competing with their marketing. You say bad taste, I say good marketing.

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by beepbooptheory »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #86
aspencer8111 wrote: post #35

Good on you man! You: 1. Dodged a bullet (booo on any company that would reject someone with this level of passion). 2. Created your own product (which you seem even more passionate about) 3. Did all the heavy lifting to make it interesting out of the gate (provided content). Wishing you all the success!

> 1. Dodged a bullet (booo on any company that would reject someone with this level of passion). Passion is a double-edged sword: When a person's passions align closely with the company's needs, it's wonderful. But if a person's passions conflict with what the founders want, the passion can amplify the conflict. That's why it's important to understand exactly what the candidate is passionate about. If they're passion…

Is there any room left for someone to just be good at something and a company pays them to do that thing.

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by plondon514 »

FractalHQ wrote: post #108

Can I request a Svelte tutorial?

You certainly can! And thanks for reminding me, I need to add an interest form on the site. BTW the svelte tutorial on the official docs site is really great! https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by krumpet »

jrm4 wrote: post #76
grifball wrote: post #12

>My favorite part of the photographic process was watching prints come to life. I loved starting with a blank sheet of paper and applying various photographic methods to bring the image to life. >I found that building websites was similarly satisfying. For example, click the "Reveal Image" button to watch an image fade in to the blank canvas! I think a lot about why I went into computer science and this is the same c…

Old timer who had an Apple II as a kid, and the experience I try to sneak into every class I teach is: 10 PRINT "John is Awesome"; 20 GOTO 10 This little gem is the beginning of it all. Little me is understanding, okay, so if I'm willing to put in the time and thought, the machine will obey and I I have the literal power of infinity at my fingertips.

10 PRINT "You are correct, sir!"

20 GOTO 10

* Edited for formatting

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by m00x »

efbbrown wrote: post #11
petee wrote: post #6

What does 'rejected' mean, I thought they let you sign up free? Either way, it's always nice to see alternatives, thanks for sharing

I think OP probably means he was rejected from working for codecademy. Their loss judging by codeamigo.

Really? I don't want to be rude, but that site is really awful-looking and looks like something a bootcamp grad would do for their final project.

The complexity though of making something like this though is definitely intermediate+.

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by plondon514 »

inaseem wrote: post #122

Hi Philip, Its great to see codeamigo come to life. Definitely a platform I would use myself to learn more. I am following you from radon's riju project.

Hey! Radon's project is great and powers the languages not executable by the browser! Check us out on discord as we grow the community there: https://discord.gg/UUgEe5MH

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by dimitrios1 »

pkrotich wrote: post #115
mylons wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it best to give Codeacademy the benefit of the doubt? They likely hire by committee, like any tech company. In that scenario it's entirely dependent on who the committee is. It's not like Codeacademy, or any company for that matter, has some idempotent interviewing process. If you changed the interview panels, or some of the questions, the candidate may likely have received an offer.

Have you hired anyone? Asking because your comment make it sounds like there's science to it. I don't like the committee hiring as well but team or manager level hiring can segment the company culture. Also individuals can be biased and hire based on vibes or who is like them etc. - committee brings a check to that, that's why it's common. The truth is - you'll miss some great candidates because they simply interview…

Hiring is hard. We, as an industry, simply cannot interview.

We don't know how to accurately gauge a candidates experience, personality or knowledge. We can only make them perform monkey-see-monkey-do on a whiteboard or through stupid, asinine puzzles and leetcode style exercises.

To make matters worse, we often place our most senior software developers on interview circuits. For better or for worse, engineers trend towards more anti-social traits. It makes the whole process of understanding one's personality, how they think, and whether or not they'll be a fit for the company a complete crap-chute. This is literally the only industry I have been apart of that sucks this bad at a process that is so fundamental to professional life.

I would rather interview at McDonalds or for a call center (having had both of those jobs).

Re: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own

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Post by FredPret »

FredPret wrote: post #72
karaterobot wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never been on a team where having people spread the globe worked well. In fact, just this morning I got off a 7 am (PDT) call with people at 7:30 pm (IST), and as always I was thinking "this sucks for all of us". I don't believe there's a clever hack that can optimize around the circumference of the planet.

Dig a deep hole and build a conference room in the middle of the globe!

…we’ll call it Central Time
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