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> I’ve been judged by prospective employers based on reported app size being seen as correlated to complexity. This judges the prospective employer more than i

by rixed 5y ago

> I’ve been judged by prospective employers based on reported app size being seen as correlated to complexity. This judges the prospective employer more than it judges the candidate, doesn't it? This is actually nothing new. Back when I was at uni some students claimed to do the same, adding code that served no purpose to inflate the resulting program executable size. And if my memory serves me well, at this time when windows was still young and software was swapped around on floppies, software sizes started to skyrocket and I've heard then that the secret reason for this lack of care was that size was the easiest way to impress users and the tech press (all while making piracy more inconvenient).

vmception 5y ago
> This judges the prospective employer more than it judges the candidate, doesn't it? Easy to say, rhetorically suggesting that its revealing a toxic mangement environment, but no, not really. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive with great teammates and great managers, and a hiring decision maker that was otherwise completely hands off of what I was doing for the rest of the project. A hiring decision maker that probably left within 3 - 6 months of me joining, or who was randomly called to do an interview last minute and had arbitrary evaluation metrics. Maybe that is what you mean, but it had nothing to do with the day to day experience, once on board I found every place to be very similar with the mobile team pretty much on autopilot, which is the desired experience. Even quicker paths to leadership roles and higher compensation. They all have interesting-enough projects at the time, or fulfilled some other interest of mine, or money without being a bad environment. Interview gaffs really don't carry as much weight as people think, it requires a special kind of privilege to think it matters that not all of us have or had.

by rixed 5y ago

vmception 5y ago

> This judges the prospective employer more than it judges the candidate, doesn't it? Easy to say, rhetorically suggesting that its revealing a toxic mangement environment, but no, not really. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive with great teammates and great managers, and a hiring decision maker that was otherwise completely hands off of what I was doing for the rest of the project. A hiring decision maker that probably left within 3 - 6 months of me joining, or who was randomly called to do an interview last minute and had arbitrary evaluation metrics. Maybe that is what you mean, but it had nothing to do with the day to day experience, once on board I found every place to be very similar with the mobile team pretty much on autopilot, which is the desired experience. Even quicker paths to leadership roles and higher compensation. They all have interesting-enough projects at the time, or fulfilled some other interest of mine, or money without being a bad environment. Interview gaffs really don't carry as much weight as people think, it requires a special kind of privilege to think it matters that not all of us have or had.