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Change the strategy. These days, HR people are hunting for deveopers of any kind. Make yourself a nice LinkedIn profile, put all the correct words there, DO NOT
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
Change the strategy. These days, HR people are hunting for deveopers of any kind. Make yourself a nice LinkedIn profile, put all the correct words there, DO NOT emphasise that you are currently unemployed...
... and when the inquiries will inevitably come, just politely reject doing interviews with code questions, etc., and turn on the offence! Ask them yourself about the task and if it might interest you enough, so you will be motivated to work on it. Your ideal interview should be more about THEM, not about YOU. It might take a while to master this skill, but used right you can totally dominate the interview process and hire yourself into almost any company which is desperate for developers.
- m0llusk 6y agoNo, they are not. The whole reason there is a perception of a lack of developers is the screwy criteria and process applied to applicants. I'm a developer with more than 30 years experience including some well known products from big companies. The same is true of my circle of friends but only two still have traditional tech jobs. The rest have gone independent out of necessity.
- camjohnson26 6y agoThe biggest mistake people make when I give a coding question is not asking for help, even though I always tell them to treat the question as collaborative and use me as a resource. While I’ve been on interviews where the company expected me to code with no help, usually the culture at those places wasn’t a good fit anyway. All that to say I’d suggest candidates be more willing to ask for help. Interviewers are people too and if you can code a solution easily after getting unblocked they might forget you ever asked for help, or respect you more for it.