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Ones I got interviews for and didn't get

• olalonde 4y ago
  Even more impressive. Inspired me to get more fails under my belt.
• giantg2 4y ago
  I can't even get 10% of the number of interviews. I feel like you have little justification to say "In fact, almost everything I have tried to do has failed". Clearly you've been very successful in general. Much more so than people like me.
  • jimhi 4y ago
    I mean the interviews are like 1 out 400 applications.
    • giantg2 4y ago
      Still, seems like you move up. I'm over a decade in and still a shitty midlevel.
      • testmasterflex 4y ago
        It's pretty evident that Mr Steinberg is extremely conscientious
      • reidjs 4y ago
        (Assuming you're a software engineer) You are being paid to write code, don't forget that, it's a dream to many people.
        • giantg2 4y ago
          It's a nightmare to some
      • circlefavshape 4y ago
        My dad never got promoted in 40 years of work. When I got my first promotion (to team lead) I had been working as a dev for over 15 years and I kinda felt like I had let him down
      • madamelic 4y ago
        What are you doing to move up? I don't think I am anything special nor was I a super go-getter and I've moved up fine in the same time span (came in as an ~associate, moved up to senior in ~2 years, got principal in 1.5 years, sat around high-level senior / defacto tech lead for a few years until I finally got a break with an actual lead title). You are either in too big of a pond (ie: you should work in a smaller place to have a bigger impact) or you are too focused on your own work to appear as someone worth bringing up. I am not a boomer but if you are a software engineer who is wanting to move up past associate and especially senior, you need to be looking out for others, mentoring, writing documentation on why certain decisions were made; something more than just nose in the code. The adage of "dress for the job you want, not the job you have" is kinda true. You don't even have to kill yourself for it either. I did the 10+ hour days for a year as a junior then I realized no one I wanted to care cared nor saw it as a point of pride.
        • giantg2 4y ago
          I'm not doing shit now. I gave up a few years ago. I was an acting senior dev for a year and a tech lead for another. I had great reviews and was performing beyond my role. I was involved in stretch assignments/groups too. I even had a tech lead from another team I was working with send an email to my manager praising my help. Then that project was outsourced and I helped bring the sourcing team to speed. I went to another area of the company and volunteered to be a security champion (above my level at the time) which turns out I was the only one for 6 teams across 2 departments. I had awesome reviews from the people I worked with on this. I volunteered for other assignments too and "won" (asshole manager would give teo people a task that one person could do to see who would step up). I was a regular attendee and contributor at the tech lead and manager meetings (like a design/architecture/SoS for the app). When I was leaving that team one of the tech leads asked what role I was taking on a different team. I told them it was a midlevel dev. They then asked why I was taking a demotion - they thought I was a senior dev the whole time. Maybe just to be polite, but a few others echoed the same sentiment at hearing that. The security and tech lead years were a lot more than being in the code. In fact, I was focused on a lot of PM related stuff during the tech lead year and feel my lack of coding actually hurt me in the future because I was no longer coding on a daily basis but doing stuff like coordinating, troubleshooting, etc. So then I wasn't as fast at actual coding.
    • hughdbrown 4y ago
      In 2016, you had 45 failed interviews. At a 400-1 ratio, you're saying you put out 18000 job applications that year? That's staggering. Even at 20-1, that would be 1000-ish applications.
• andrewstuart 4y ago
  It should say that in the blog post. It reads like a ridiculously long list of jobs you took and failed at.