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Does anyone else feel like OP is having to do waaay too much to land a job?
by NTDF9 9y ago
Does anyone else feel like OP is having to do waaay too much to land a job?
- draw_down 9y agoThat, plus all the companies bellyaching about how hard it is to recruit, should tell you all you need to know about our industry.
- NTDF9 9y agoI have been pretty vocal about how retarded their hiring processes are, including on hacker news. You should see how many downvotes and comments I get from people supporting current hiring processes. I sometimes wonder if people working in these companies are genuinely deluded about how stupid their processes are.
- jccalhoun 9y agoI don't know anything about what it is like to get a job in the tech industry in the bay area but I am surprised that working at Apple for a few years doesn't make it much easier to get a job.
- wheaties 9y agoThat's because "we only hire the best." Also "we have not invested in our own hiring process so it's a total crap shoot but we aren't even cognizant of this fact."
- ryanSrich 9y agoActually no. The industry has changed a great deal in just the last 5 years. I think the days of just having Google or Apple on your resume and getting another gig are over. The only thing having a high profile company on your resume says is that you likely need a high salary. It's just cheaper to higher the new CS grad for $80k year.
- discreteevent 9y ago"The only thing having a high profile company on your resume says is that you likely need a high salary" - It might say that you have some experience that could save the new company a lot of money. "It's just cheaper to higher the new CS grad for $80k year." - $80k is only the debit side of the balance sheet so so "cheaper" is correct. But "more economical" might not be.
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- javier2 9y agoI recently changed jobs, and most I realized companies are atrocious at hiring. I came from a bigger company that invests heavily in hiring. They spend tons of cash and employee time in activities to spur hiring, and it's the only place I've worked full time. I found it a bit surprising that many other companies only do a few interviews, use only external recruiters and have never tried to do any form of publicity nor recruiting event. Many of them had not even looked at my Github profile.
- ryanSrich 9y agoI don't disagree. You give hiring managers too much credit though.
- sonofaplum 9y agoI'm sure the OP would have no difficulty picking up another QA job, but thats not what he wants. He wants to move to highly specialized fields.
- pragmatic 9y agoExperience > Education? It always blows my mind to see QA or DBA or Sysadmins with great degrees. Maybe that's the job they want OR they got siloed because of their first job.