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I feel like Google / Amazon / IBM / any of the larger companies would love to have you on board. Maybe look bigger instead of going for start-ups which are ofte
by honkycat 8y ago
I feel like Google / Amazon / IBM / any of the larger companies would love to have you on board. Maybe look bigger instead of going for start-ups which are often run by children.
Anymore people like hiring young inexperienced devs they can abuse and pay poorly. And then they wonder why we have to take months and months to pay off technical debt...
Hiring managers and inexperienced management think anybody can learn to code so they just hire who they think is cool. It's a bad trend. So tired of working with people who are fresh out of code bootcamp and are basically useless.
I've posted about this before so I'll repeat myself:
> More than anything have learned that education and training are hugely important and hiring to train leads to mediocre staff who think their two years of development work stack up to your 4 years of college and 6 years of professional experience.
> They take forever to start writing productive code, if they ever bother leaning at all.
> I will never hire someone without a degree or equivalent experience again. Even for Jr. roles
- anonOver60 8y agoI've applied to Apple several times over the last 10 years for jobs requiring some very specific and rare skills that I have. They have never responded. I've gone through the interview process at Google twice and was "close but rejected".
- Permit 8y ago>Maybe look bigger instead of going for start-ups which are often run by children. If you are personally having difficulties interacting with people <30 years old a good first step would be not to patronize them.
- raarts 8y agoI know what you mean but you'd be surprised about how your managers think about you, or how you would think about your younger self when you're 50.
- TheAdamist 8y agoIBM has been sued for mass lay offs of workers over 40 in pursuit of making their workforce younger, i wouldn't put to much faith in them hiring anyone older. https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-ibm/ibm-laid-off-older-workers-in-push-to-recruit-millennials-lawsuit-idUSL2N1W401K https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-ibm/ibm-laid-off-...