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@Aboel3z@programming.dev do you plan on ever interacting with the community or do you post your links to drive Medium engagement?
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Submitted 10 months ago by Aboel3z@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
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thesmokingman@programming.dev 10 months ago
devlemming@programming.dev 10 months ago
Got laid off last summer. I haven’t started looking until recently, and I’ve only had one technical interview so far. I went through it, and going by the feedback of the interviewer, I solved the problem. He told me I was done, so I stopped working on it.
The next day, I got a reply back from the company saying my skills weren’t “senior enough”. I guess they were looking for someone who could either solve the problem faster, or more confidently.
karlhungus@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Interviews are a crapshoot, and feedback from them is usually valueless. Good luck to you in your future interviews
YaBoyMax@programming.dev 10 months ago
My company has on multiple occasions brought in applicants to interview who aren’t qualified for any positions we have open. I’m not 100% sure why that is, but it’s led to us rejecting candidates who everyone otherwise felt pretty positive about.
devlemming@programming.dev 10 months ago
That might be part of it too. I got interviewed because I was friends with someone there. But there was no formal job description, just what people would describe to me during the interview. I only have ~5 years experience, and it was for a senior-level role. It was a little odd they made that decision during the tech interview though.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah…We do it beacuse we’re cheapskate bastards, trying to get more than we’re willing to pay for.
Source: I worked for a cheapskate bastard, at one point.
iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I started developing software professionally, i.e. for a salary, about 20 years ago. I didn’t have any education beyond high school. Today I’m a freelance software consultant, currently working for a central bank in Europe. You know how I got here? By studying. Learning to use SQL, C#, PowerShell, bash, JSON, etc. I never learned computer algorithms and to this day I can’t write an efficient quick sort in either language. Along the way I learned the value of human interactions and efficient communication, vital to a freelance consultant wanting to be successful.
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 10 months ago
Scary, this dude does more than 3 times as much stuff as me. I don’t even work on open source projects. I wonder how I’ll ever get a new job.
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The worst part for me about this is: I know from 12 years of work now that I am good at what I do, and that I have a few skills that are useful in getting products to market and making sure we catch issues in design and implementation early. But the hiring system makes it nearly impossible to get a job with a company, as all they’re interested in is puzzle solving ability and memorization. Not problem solving, problem analysis or solution planning. Nevermind actual soft skills for project work.
rekabis@programming.dev 10 months ago
Companies have also become so adverse - and I would even characterize it as hostile - to investing any effort into new hires that they want to have any new hire to “hit the ground running”.
Ergo, they interview over and over again, using wildly diverse testing methods, and getting tied up in analysis paralysis in their attempt to find the “perfect candidate”.
With the very predictable result of all the good candidates withdrawing for other opportunities - because the smart companies don’t conduct torture via incessant interviews, they jump to provide offers once basic thresholds have been met - leaving only the mediocre and substandard applicants.
This is why you hear certain companies lament the low quality of applicants, or descend clear down to “bUt No-OnE wAnTs To WoRk!!1!” when their toxic interview methods chase everyone away.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s so weird. The company I was working at earlier this year went bankrupt so I had to find a new job. I did a lot of interviews and ultimately the one that made an offer and I accepted was the one that had one interview. They took a look at my previous experience, did one test exercise to verify my expertise and then made an offer that I accepted. But for that one offwr I had a lot of interviews at other places where it came down to me missing “it” whatever “it” was. It all felt pretty demoralizing and I ended up spending more time maintaining a healthy mindset, to not become like the author, than I did searching for a job.
My favorite hiring was a company that had me do a recruiter interview after a recruiter had already recommended me (why?). Then I got a poorly worded practice exercise that they refused to elaborate. After that I had a team interview and after it a HR interview (yes, in that order). I would’ve had two more interviews with the head of the dept and one more with some suit. All that for a position that wage-wise was just above entry level and well below my paygrade. I pretty much grilled them on the last meeting for having such a long and stupid hiring process because out of all their hiring processes no other process had wasted my time as much as this.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There are plenty of good jobs out there, but they often don’t advertise. They don’t have to. Word of mouth gets them all the candidtes they need and partnerships woth decent recruiters and schools gets them all their other employee needs. If you’re looking for a good job, I can recommend looking up a good recruiter in your area. Not a corprate recruiter, but a personal recruiter. One who finds you a job that fits your needs.
CatUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Are you serious? That sounds exactly like the punishment-reward system of the education system around the world.