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From personal experience: possibly Twitter. Having a presence there has given me several serious offers to interview, for jobs worth having (FAANG and similar).
by patrickkidger 4y ago
From personal experience: possibly Twitter. Having a presence there has given me several serious offers to interview, for jobs worth having (FAANG and similar).
The folks in my field (ML/applied math/scientific computing) are all on there, and moreover those reaching out to me are always technical folks rather than recruiters.
(Twitter gets a bad rap, but the academic/dev parts of it are the single best way I've found to track the Zeitgeist of fields and topics I'm interested in.)
- kingkongjaffa 4y agoI had the opposite experience. 'tech twitter' is full of junior developers, developer advocates, and students, all trying to sell e-books to each other or virtue signal their way into a dev advocate role. I only found content creator and tech influencer sales pitches.
- cyberlurker 4y agoThis is definitely true, but then I also see more experienced developers and researchers tweeting about these people making fun of them and calling them on their bullshit. I think tech Twitter quality is heavily dependent on being thoughtful of who you follow.