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Re: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

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Post by Salgat » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 6:44 PM UTC

jdmg94 wrote: post #354

Salgat wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is one of the few companies that has enough talent applying to be able to turn away perfectly good candidates. All those hoops you jump through ensure you're willing to go above and beyond a healthy level to "serve" the company.

Google is not some special company, its a big company and it has shitshows to fit their big company status. Just because they can keep throwing money at their recruitment department doesn't mean this is something worth replicating or that they get the absolute best talent (if that was the case their messaging apps would not get deprecated after a year)

They're special in one specific aspect: they have their pick of qualified applications. It's not like your typical mid-sized company with a limited budget that has to spend months to find a good quality candidate and can't afford arbitrary reasons to turn those candidates away.

Re: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

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Post by nunez » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 5:13 AM UTC

amazing that the email chain was the entire article.

Re: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

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Post by rentfree-media » Fri, Sep 09, 2022, 5:01 PM UTC

koonsolo wrote: post #290

What industry is this? For front-end developers, if you're not fast enough as a company, the best candidates are already gone. Talking about Europe here, not sure how it is in US.

The US predominantly posts job openings for which no one will be hired for compliance.

They actually hire H1B visa workers or contractors to churn out the code solely based on cost.

Re: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

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Post by thecolorblue » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 2:49 AM UTC

I have noticed more companies trying to schedule a whole day of interviews instead of spreading a lot of interviews out. It is only slightly better, as all of the stress and mental cost is fit into one day.

Re: If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

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Post by cjohnson318 » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

dave_sullivan wrote: post #247

cjohnson318 wrote: post #203

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Dumb question, have you tried shorter term contracts? Have you tried networking with your peers from your bootcamp? I get that it's better to have Big Stable Names on your resume, but there's a lot of places that just need things done, and any experience is better than nothing.

Do you have any leads on short term contracts? Would accept one in an instant. The problem is upwork takes a 20% cut and has bad terms and has a very flaky client base, while everything that VC money touches pays way better but hires non-contract fulltime only (fine) and has these rediculous interview cycles that I never seem to pass through. I think if you put me in a stack of candidates that did leet code, i am bas…

Oops, I didn't see your response; I'll shoot you an email from connor[dot]labaume[dot]etc.

I've never interacted with UpWork. My experience is that smaller companies pay fairly well, the interview process is usually easier, and you can learn a lot more about development, and that particular industry. The down side is that office politics matters more, you might have challenges with setting realistic expectations, and you might have trouble with comparisons to the last programmer they hired/fired.