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Do practice interviews at companies you don't really want to work for. It takes the pressure off and makes the real interviews easier.
by joshbetz 8y ago
Do practice interviews at companies you don't really want to work for. It takes the pressure off and makes the real interviews easier.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWho has time for that if you have a full time job? Do you spend all your vacation in interviewing?
- rhinoceraptor 8y agoYour first job is your job, your second job is working on OSS on github to make yourself look good, and your third job is interviewing :^)
- maxxxxx 8y agoMost interviews are during my work hours. Do you take a day off for each?
- yardie 8y agoYou have 2 choices. You can do it discretely; after work hours, no the may not contact my employer. Or, you can do it openly; multi-hour lunch breaks, lots of personal time off, and your LinkedIn profile is super active. The latter will either get you a salary increase or you'll be shown the door. Ask me how I know.
- me_love_animes 8y agosounds pretty sad imo
- RubenSandwich 8y agoI don't want a second/third job. I want to spend my time off with my family and loved ones.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoSorry, you're rejected for not being passionate enough. Also, you have a family, so you're too old to work here anyway. But we can't say that last part out loud.
- Cyph0n 8y agoIs this serious advice? Because this sounds to me like a great way to get burned out...
- rhinoceraptor 8y agoNo, it's a joke.
- ravenstine 8y ago> your second job is working on OSS on github to make yourself look good Sounds good on paper. In practice, what people do on Github is worthless. I've only one company ever actually looked at what I made on GitHub. Otherwise, they'll never check out what I've done even if a project is listed on a resume. Nobody has the time or amount of shits to give to actually review your own code. Very few people I know who are working as software engineers even have any serious projects or contributions on GitHub. As much as I love doing side projects, the idea that companies care what I do on GitHub is some of the worst advice I've encountered. Now my profile is full of trash I've forked along the way and it hasn't made a lick of difference as to how many interviews I've gotten.
- mattchamb 8y agoI had a look at the github of someone we were interviewing. He had azure credentials committed in one of his projects. We have him a pass.
- coolwhhip 8y agoIt’s a bit extreme to say putting projects on GitHub is worthless when it comes to generating job opportunities. In my experience, if you’ve got a project that delivers a ton of value to a suffiently large set of people, somebody usually will reach out.
- IggleSniggle 8y agoI’m not frequently involved in hiring, but when I’m looking at a resume for a potential coworker I will check their github. If it’s shit, that doesn’t matter at all to me, but if it has some neat stuff I will look deeper, and the bar for “interview” and “hire” can be substantially lowered for the in-person interview. Basically, I’m looking for good signal, but that can show in a lot of different ways for different people. If OSS or side project or whatever is something you enjoy doing, or if you’re not working full time and struggling to prove that you can bring the goods, these sorts of things can help you.
- titanomachy 8y agoNo, because I have a job I like now. When I had a job I didn't like... Yeah, changing it was a pretty big priority. Why wouldn't it be?
- draw_down 8y agoNobody’s saying you have time for it; I don’t think anyone imagines the current state of affairs to be ideal. Grandparent is offering practical advice, not telling you what you might want to hear.
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- kevinconaway 8y agoRecruiting is a time consuming task for all involved and for you to casually waste peoples time in that manner is horribly disrespectful
- idontpost 8y agoSure, but that's a two way street. Companies disrespect candidates by making them jump through irrelevant hoops. The job candidates didn't create this problem.
- kevinconaway 8y agoYou're right, it is a two-way street. Candidates go in to the process hoping to get a job and employees go in to the process hoping to get a co-worker. Both are acting in good faith Most companies disclose what their process is up front and you're free to opt out at any time. Intentionally wasting the time of the recruiters and engineers at companies you don't want to work for just to "practice" just seems really rude
- idontpost 8y ago> Most companies disclose what their process is up front That's funny. You should do stand-up.
- Ensorceled 8y agoMultiple, full day interviews are horribly disrespectful.
- BeetleB 8y ago>Recruiting is a time consuming task for all involved and for you to casually waste peoples time in that manner is horribly disrespectful The argument cuts both ways. If the company rejects most people they bring for an on-site interview, then they are OK with wasting a lot of people's time. It is the company's responsibility to screen their candidates better. Among the FAANG companies, 7 different recruiters contacted me this year (including multiple recruiters from the same company - for different divisions). I didn't apply to any of them. I got past their screen and they brought me on site.