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And reach out to 460 people for professional networking. And 230 public commits on GitHub. And various unspecified other criteria (which are present in the PDF
by minimaxir 5y ago
And reach out to 460 people for professional networking. And 230 public commits on GitHub. And various unspecified other criteria (which are present in the PDF linked by sandofsky, including always being available for interviews and job hunt audits).
- smelendez 5y agoGitHub is certainly gameable, but reaching out to 10 people a week for networking is ridiculous. Also, the requirement that you follow up with each job app by email/phone/text, which is almost never what employers want.
- betterthanlast 5y agoI finished a hiring round a few months ago and I’m going into a bigger one now. We were flooded with applications, 90% of them real bad fits. We were also hounded by HR to move quickly. I already couldn’t do my job and was expected to. A follow up after an interview is absolutely fine. A follow up right after an application before hearing back either way will likely get you dropped.
- holonomically 5y agoI guess they really want people to apply to a lot of jobs but 460 still seems like a very large number. If someone applied to 5 jobs a day (a very high estimate) then it would take them at least 3 months before they would be able to claim a refund. This is assuming they weren't doing anything else other than applying and interviewing.
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- MivLives 5y agoI graduated from Lambda. I did... pretty much exactly that. I hit 250 applications total, did that five days a week, spent a sixth writing a medium article on the sixth, and the seventh I spent away from the computer. I targeted around 3 jobs a day, and would do that first thing, any interviews/coding challenges I managed to get were right after. It was incredibly demoralizing, especially as I watched other people I knew get hired, or worse not get hired.