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I would recommend you don't do that. Nobody who is reviewing candidates has time to write a client to get your raw information out of a database. If you build

by wdfx 6y ago

I would recommend you don't do that. Nobody who is reviewing candidates has time to write a client to get your raw information out of a database. If you build the client, and a web page/app and also document how you did it and also show us the code, that'd be much more useful.

rad_gruchalski 6y ago
I'm sorry, what. If you can't query that, why should I work for you? ;)
- _jal 6y ago
  I wouldn't expect much from going this far, but yes, too many HMs either forget or never realized they're being interviewed, too. Saw this more before I started refusing interviews with the HugeCos, but the strangest flavor of this I've run in to was at an early startup - I suspect dude was acting out an arrogant genius script, hoping to convince people he was one. (It came out as very weird, not in a good way.)
- wdfx 6y ago
  My point was regarding the following: - usually the first person to screen or introduce you won't be a developer or perhaps not even technical, so you've put yourself out of the running early on. I can query it, but many who might be in a position to put you forward might not. If you want to do that though then fair enough, that's your choice. - reflecting on my current situation where I'm busier than normal right now and I want an easy run on non-development tasks ;)
mfenniak 6y ago
Write a client? Just use psql, or any of a dozen other interactive DB clients.
leejoramo 6y ago
I once applied to a local job ad in 1996. The ad read: “PUT text webmaster resume 123.123.123.123” So I PUT in my resume to the actual IP address, got an interview. Alas they were a strict Windows shop, and at the time I was a Unix Perl dev
gitgud 6y ago
> "If you build the client, and a web page/app and also document how you did it and also show us the code, that'd be much more useful." So a website resume, like literally every other candidate... I think you've missed the entire point of the idea... which is to stand out with a different approach
- wdfx 6y ago
  And, with respect, you missed one of my points, regarding the code. Sure websites are normal, but if you present me with the source and you wrote it (i.e. it's not just a wordpress site) and it's something worth looking at then I can already see that you can do something interesting and of value.
Igelau 6y ago
Is this an interview or a consultation?

by wdfx 6y ago

rad_gruchalski 6y ago

I'm sorry, what. If you can't query that, why should I work for you? ;)

_jal 6y ago
I wouldn't expect much from going this far, but yes, too many HMs either forget or never realized they're being interviewed, too. Saw this more before I started refusing interviews with the HugeCos, but the strangest flavor of this I've run in to was at an early startup - I suspect dude was acting out an arrogant genius script, hoping to convince people he was one. (It came out as very weird, not in a good way.)
wdfx 6y ago
My point was regarding the following: - usually the first person to screen or introduce you won't be a developer or perhaps not even technical, so you've put yourself out of the running early on. I can query it, but many who might be in a position to put you forward might not. If you want to do that though then fair enough, that's your choice. - reflecting on my current situation where I'm busier than normal right now and I want an easy run on non-development tasks ;)

mfenniak 6y ago

Write a client? Just use psql, or any of a dozen other interactive DB clients.

leejoramo 6y ago

I once applied to a local job ad in 1996. The ad read: “PUT text webmaster resume 123.123.123.123” So I PUT in my resume to the actual IP address, got an interview. Alas they were a strict Windows shop, and at the time I was a Unix Perl dev

gitgud 6y ago

> "If you build the client, and a web page/app and also document how you did it and also show us the code, that'd be much more useful." So a website resume, like literally every other candidate... I think you've missed the entire point of the idea... which is to stand out with a different approach

wdfx 6y ago
And, with respect, you missed one of my points, regarding the code. Sure websites are normal, but if you present me with the source and you wrote it (i.e. it's not just a wordpress site) and it's something worth looking at then I can already see that you can do something interesting and of value.

Igelau 6y ago

Is this an interview or a consultation?