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Post by GoToRO » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

reallydontask wrote: post #299

GoToRO wrote: post #291

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It's not about believing, it's about knowing. You have to couple that time interval with the company they worked for. At one company it took them 2 weeks to set-up my email, 3 months to decide on which project to work on and in about 6 months I was delivering something. So 6 months "experience" actually meant zero. I was ready to deliver from day 1 but... At another company I had all the accounts created by the end o…

it seems you've presented a single data point, yourself, and decided that this universally applies, which seems unreasonable. I think most people's experiences of onboarding in new companies are somewhere in between, thus the tenure length provides another data point. Furthermore, some hiring managers look for people that stick around for various reasons, e.g. hiring in that company is difficult due to bureaucracy, s…

Post by alexjray » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

_andychung wrote: post #47

alexjray wrote: post #20

Things I like. - projects and feature section. - Simple clean design, easy to edit - printable Things I don't like - Super buggy - no support for company lookup/reference (need to build company DB and connect the social graphs, this is why Linkedin is so valuable/has a moat i.e. your biggest challenge.) - No ability to add a custom section to my profile. - I would like to add things non-work related like music i'm li…

Have definitely been thinking about how to make sections more customizable as I'll never be able to make the defaults cover every use case. What bugs are you encountering?

Post by jhatemyjob » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #307

schwartzworld wrote: post #293

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6 months is a write-off? By the time I was 6 months into my first software gig I had 5 months and 2 weeks of being a contributor. It was made clear to me that I was as entitled to voice wrong opinions as anyone else, and also entitled to own as much responsibility as I wanted. I found a niche that nobody else wanted to own and learned way more than I would have being spoon-fed the way you describe. Then again, I gues…

Yup, 6 months is a write-off. I'm guessing you had the luck of joining a new project, or a company doing very small projects very fast. I personally only know one developer who seems to be able to onboard himself in a week or two, and that's in frontend webdev. In my experience, even if all the bureaucracy and ops goes smoothly, any kind of reasonably sized existing project will take weeks to months before one can re…

Post by cubano » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 1:18 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #217

cubano wrote: post #169

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Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination. Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed. But no...of course that's not what happens. Managers go through the Kabuki dance with the potential employee just trying to find a small "chink in the armor" to quickly disqualify them. It's called the "initial screen" of course, and…

> Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination. Either you mean that "everyone discriminates illegally", in which case I'm glad we've never worked together, or you're equating "differentiating people at all" with discriminating against $PROTECTED_GROUP ", in which case, no. > Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed. ..…