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You're speaking from a position of great privilege where putting in a month or two of free labour doesn't impact your life much, maybe because you have money, o
by cess11 2y ago
You're speaking from a position of great privilege where putting in a month or two of free labour doesn't impact your life much, maybe because you have money, or because you don't have kids.
Whether someone demonstrates a willingness to dive in deep and learn things I catch with an entirely different technique, like putting them into contact with a new programming language.
Filtering out people with experience from "FAANG" will likely get rid of some people that think they are "too good to put in the work", because they have that line on their resumes. And those I've met were absolutely insufferable and incompetent.
- unoti 2y agoActually I put in that work myself, while working, and while raising kids. It took me a lot longer than a month or two. It took a ridiculous, embarrassing amount of time. > And those I've met were absolutely insufferable and incompetent. I understand this last part, and annoying and insufferable people absolutely do exist. But consider that you may be generalizing and discriminating against a pretty big pool of people using a small sample size, and give some of those people a chance-- as long as they're not being insufferable and are treating you the way you want to be treated. Those people exist in FAANGs too.
- cess11 2y agoNo way. If someone has worked in one of those companies and tells me about it, then they're tainted by it, similar to how they would be from having worked at Raytheon or whatever. If they have the sense to try and hide their "FAANG" background I might consider them.