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Really I have gotten the impression from my experience that employers tend to be irrationally picky and arbitrary about employees. They dismiss perfectly good
by Nasrudith 7y ago
Really I have gotten the impression from my experience that employers tend to be irrationally picky and arbitrary about employees.
They dismiss perfectly good canidates for "culture fit" or able to bullshit flatter their ego enough or for not having magical 2-5 years of experience for entry level.
Yet if you have them or have a full time job they dogpile you with recruitment attempts - and spend years trying to fill a short term contract or you acknowledge that Cost of Living affects the salary you are willing to accept.
It seems the great recession broke their fragile HR minds.
- Jugglerofworlds 7y agoGod forbid you make a small mistake on a technical interview or don't know the "trick" to answer a leetcode question. Any small mistake is enough to crucify you, and previous employment experience is ignored in favor of basing 100% on technical interviews.
- sage76 7y ago> Any small mistake is enough to crucify you Completely true. If you don't immediately and perfectly know the most efficient algo to solve graph inversion or whatever random problem they found on leetcode that day, kiss any chances of a callback goodbye. Oh and be prepared for a hundred rounds of relentless grilling. I don't know why it gets peddled around that it's easy to find jobs in CS. It seems as hard as finding a break in hollywood.
- simplebuilder 7y ago> It seems as hard as finding a break in hollywood. Well put!