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Average/normal != bad It's not that you're a bad programmer, but after reading the article you're doing the nerd-at-the-dance fallacy and doing the old spray a
by aliqot 4y ago
Average/normal != bad
It's not that you're a bad programmer, but after reading the article you're doing the nerd-at-the-dance fallacy and doing the old spray and pray. Do the work to identify a fit, then go there and make the case for why you fit. Places where you'd just be a number are not for you because you're not a leetcoder and you don't do politics, which is totally fine.
Nerds at the dance don't identify a fit, they either don't shoot their shot, or they shoot every shot and see what lands. When you haven't identified a fit saying "I see you have a square hole there, check me out I'm your square peg" people know, and that type of limp introduction is received more as a "alms for the sick" type of interaction where you're asking for them to bequeath you with labor.
Also, lift some weights. Sounds like the rest of your life is in order, financially, skills, etc, but no mentions of fitness. When you're physically pushed to your limits, the trivial parts of life become a lot less uncertain. That confidence is exuded from every pore. What you have right now is a mind problem, a me problem, and misaligned expectations.
In your mind you're saying: They dont want me I'm a bad programmer
In reality: I have not found my square edges, I wouldn't know a square hole from a dimple or why I'd want either one.
In your mind you're saying: Other people dont have these problems, it's just me, the imposter who got themself into this programming nonsense.
In reality they're saying: Other CEO's dont have these problems, it's just me, one manager, sifting through all these flighty leetcoders who practiced the test, but not tested the practice.
In your mind you're saying: I expect a suboptimal outcome because I am suboptimal, so why try.
In reality: I feel suboptimal, I look suboptimal, I will now perform suboptimal because everything I put in my gastank was suboptimal. Stop that nonsense.
Stop listening to yourself and be better. Go find you a hole, and pick up something heavy along the way.
- JohnBooty 4y agoDo the work to identify a fit, then go there and make the case for why you fit This sounds great but in reality it's incredibly glib. It is almost never possible to have that sort of insight into a company until you're already working there and even then it's a challenge.
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- eulers_secret 4y agoAgreed, it's also a waste of my time to do a bunch of research, figure out of I'm a "fit", customize a resume, go through the onerous application process (already have to do this) to just be rejected by the HR world filter or something else asinine. I could use that time to apply to more companies instead, or to do a leetcode problem and stand a chance at passing an interview. Or just to watch an episode of Bob's Burgers, that would be time better spent lol.
- JohnBooty 4y agoI think parent poster's intent is that you like... do all of that stuff, except then skip HR and the leetcode shuffle. And then presumably you... I don't know, show up outside of the CTO's house one morning? Or something? Email them directly and hope a spam filter doesn't block you? Hire a skywriter? And ask for a job? The "you just have to network! don't be a sheeple!" folks are always vague on that part. I have gotten jobs through networking. Most of them! It happens! It's just sort of unrealistic and glib to assume it always is possible.