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The pattern matching issue with Java or C# is interesting, since all these companies generally do want mobile. So I guess the humorous point of advice for that: replace all occurrences of Java on your CV with Android, and C# with WinPhone, and you'll probably bump your chances of getting passed the pattern matching.
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>> have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard) Wait, what? Is it really this bad in the States?
Yup. 10 days paid time off is the de-facto standard for just about every company based in this country. Some people negotiate additional PTO as part of their compensation package but I don't need to tell HN that engineers are notoriously bad at doing this.
I would love to see this kind of analysis (i.e. Junior Programmer vs. Child Prodigy vs. Rusty + Experienced) as it applies to hiring women. Are there biases against women with different experience and different "culture fit?" Would be a neat way to apply your data and your company contacts.
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I have been hired without experience: that was how my Java career started. Basically it went like this: registered with recruiting agency - got a call a few days later asking if I would like a plane ticket - met up with the company next time I crossed the mountains anyway, told them I knew next to nothing about Java, was told that I looked smart and as long as I picked it up within the next 6 months they would be hap…
> "We’ve seen that most engineers only have the stomach for a limited number of interviews. Investing time in the wrong companies carries a high opportunity cost." I suspect in addition to not having the "stomach" for an unlimited number of interviews, they don't have the vacation days to burn for them. Let's say you are working already and have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard). With these ridiculous all-day…
You can start shifting that extra day around for these occasions, leaving your vacation days for actual vacation ( which is 80% as is the pay ofcouse ).
> "We’ve seen that most engineers only have the stomach for a limited number of interviews. Investing time in the wrong companies carries a high opportunity cost." I suspect in addition to not having the "stomach" for an unlimited number of interviews, they don't have the vacation days to burn for them. Let's say you are working already and have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard). With these ridiculous all-day…
Edit: What I really meant.. Poor choice of words on my part. Take it in this context: "Person X doesn't have a stomach for hard engineering problem Y". "Doesn't have the stomach for" now can be interpreted as a synonym for: * Is not capable of * Is not smart enough for * Is not hard working enough for (!) In the current environment I definitely shouldn't have brought up gender.
You do, of course, have the natural right be offended by anything. That doesn't mean people have the responsibility to not offend you. In fact, in America, home of HN, we explicitly have the right to offend you.
> "We’ve seen that most engineers only have the stomach for a limited number of interviews. Investing time in the wrong companies carries a high opportunity cost." I suspect in addition to not having the "stomach" for an unlimited number of interviews, they don't have the vacation days to burn for them. Let's say you are working already and have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard). With these ridiculous all-day…
That's definitely my perspective. I've been doing this for a very long time and it's evolved to the point where I actually start hyperventilating when thinking about interviews, at least the technical ones. I'm looking now and I don't think I can force myself through more than a few cycles before falling back to marketing/product management to avoid it.
> "We’ve seen that most engineers only have the stomach for a limited number of interviews. Investing time in the wrong companies carries a high opportunity cost." I suspect in addition to not having the "stomach" for an unlimited number of interviews, they don't have the vacation days to burn for them. Let's say you are working already and have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard). With these ridiculous all-day…
>> have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard) Wait, what? Is it really this bad in the States?
This pressure isn't universal, but I'd say the majority of the companies I've worked for hardly anyone ever took more than a week off in a go, and when they did it was the topic of uncomfortable conversation with managers kind of acting like the person taking the time off was doing something wrong (even if just kind of half-joking about it).
It really is an entirely weird situation, for all the talk of meritocracy and such the day-to-day reality is you are pressured not to take real PTO (paid time off) and instead just do the Office Space thing where you're at work almost every day even if there are periods of time where you aren't really doing anything productive for a large chunk of most days.
I'd really like to know what it is about a resume or in an interview that makes someone seem like more of a 'product programmer'. Is it the particular things they have worked on at other jobs, i.e. their experience, or is it the way they talk about what they want to build? I'd be really interested to hear how I can make myself sound like more of a product programmer.