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Holy cow, you can't get a job? What?! That makes me feel better about not being able to.
by ghoward 4y ago
Holy cow, you can't get a job? What?!
That makes me feel better about not being able to.
- foomatic 4y agoI don't feel better. What hope is there for me then!? Fuck-em and their stupid snobby jobs anyway.
- hnuser52395 4y agoIt makes me think that the r/cscareerquestions tack of forgetting everything else and focusing on just leetcode may actually have merit. For what it's worth, I think Chris Marshall looks like a great developer and a professional I aspire to emulate. However, a lot of companies do make decisions based on metrics, keyword searches, and standardized tests like leetcode (aka stuff that misses out on the human element), so it makes sense to try and balance both if one hasn't done so already.
- ghoward 4y agoI'm sorry. There's no hope for me either; I'm not a "good cultural fit" most of the time. I agree with your last sentence, although I would word it a little differently. :)
- xupybd 4y agoFrom your blog I expect that you'd be a cultural fit for the kind of place I'd like to work in. Unfortunately those places are not the that common.
- ghoward 4y agoUnfortunately, you're correct that they are not that common. In fact, my last job was at a place where the salesman told me to not fix a bug I found until a customer ran into that bug so that "they'll remember why they need us." I was appalled. I'm glad there are more programmers like me out there though. Thank you. :)
- irvingprime 4y agoI have been in the software industry, mostly writing code, for longer than some of the people interviewing me have been alive. It took me about a year of hunting to find my current job. I rejected a couple of offers. I walked away from a couple companies with too many red flags. And I got rejected over and over and over again. It's just the way things are. Shrug it off. Don't take it personally. Move on.