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With juniors, I'm looking at a few things: 1. Bullshit. Juniors are mostly blank slates and anyone who hires a junior can train. But you can't fix a liar. 2.
by muzani 5y ago
With juniors, I'm looking at a few things:
1. Bullshit. Juniors are mostly blank slates and anyone who hires a junior can train. But you can't fix a liar.
2. Potential. The variance for a junior is a lot higher than a senior. It's sometimes a bit of lottery.
So I do indeed look for people who can be amazing over people who can get the job done. A chess game would be a hint of amazing. Many great devs started with a game.
I hired one junior because she made a crappy robot. It didn't matter that the robot was crappy. It mattered a lot more that robots aren't a software developer "thing". The first page of her resume was typical, but the crappy robots on the second page onwards were interesting. She turned out to be an excellent programmer and I paid her about 30% more than the usual, but alas we couldn't afford her for long.
What's interesting was that nobody else gave her an interview, so from a statistical view, she did poorly. But she got some above average jobs from it later so ultimately she succeeded.
There's a lot of dumb "rules" around applying for jobs, but I'd say it's a lot like dating. Don't dress for who you expect to meet. Dress for who you want to meet.
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- greenie_beans 5y agoi suspect i got discarded as an entry level developer because somebody thought i was lying about some web design work done for a now-defunct web business in a tiny town. i made a website as a freelancer for the business, and the sites had vanished whenever somebody with hiring power asked to see them. he ghosted me. in retrospect, i'm glad it didn't work out because he invited me for coffee but it was really a job interview, just unstated. talk about not being honest. but it sucked, because later i had another "coffee" with the CTO for company who was friends with that guy. i mentioned to the CTO that i had met with his friend. later, after the meeting, he basically backtracked on the potential for working for them. i've always wondered if the two dudes talked and i got passed on because of my presumed dishonesty. i'm doing fine without them, though. both of those dudes are pretty gate keeper-y in this small city tech scene, but i’ve made a network with some co-workers from my first job as a developer, since those are the ones who really know what’s up anyway.