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When I see posts like this, I think either I'm doing something wrong or they're doing something wrong. I never wrote hundreds of applications. When I'm looking
by captainmuon 2y ago
When I see posts like this, I think either I'm doing something wrong or they're doing something wrong. I never wrote hundreds of applications. When I'm looking for a job, I investigate a couple of companies where I'd like to work, write a handful of thought-out applications, and generally get at least a response, in most cases an invitation for an interview. Granted, I have a university degree but I guess many people here have one, too. I also live in a medium-sized German town, but if anything that should make it harder to find a job, not easier.
Isn't there right now a shortage of skilled tech workers? I feel like right now the hiring criteria in many places is "whoever comes through the door". I know we'd probably hire anybody who knows how to code, is reliable, and can work in a team.
- casenmgreen 2y agoI suspect Germany is different. I see here work is much more word-of-mouth, and so I think LLM spam hasn't taken off, because most jobs are not much advertised as they are in the UK/USA. People are like "I know someone who can do that" and then a friend let's you know there's some work you could do.
- pjmlp 2y agoI also live in Germany, and my experience is that while there might be a shortage, unless the CV experience from the last year reflects what HR is asking about, it doesn't matter, even you happened to do that lets say five years ago. Oh, and better have those recommendation letters free of any negative stuff disguised as positive feedback.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoThere is an abundance of tech workers. There is a shortage of good tech workers. It is incredibly difficult, at the resume stage, to tell the difference. When you post a job online, you get hundreds of applications in a few days. Imagine you are a good tech worker. You applied to a company, along with 200 other people. Your resume gets swept into the trash because they had to automatically delete several applicants and your resume somehow didn't make the cut based on a simple heuristic, or maybe you got unlucky and they just delete the bottom half without looking at them What do you do now? Do you spend a lot of other time and repeat this process next week, or do you just lower your standards and apply to 200 other companies?
- dennis_jeeves2 2y ago>There is a shortage of good tech workers. I wish someone quantified what 'good' is. Ask 2 tech workers to rate each other and they are most likely to rate each other mediocre by each's standards. Each would nitpick on what the other didn't know.
- jdhdbdbdn 2y agoThis does not match my experience. Most of the time it's quite clear who is a high performer/multiplier in a team
- dennis_jeeves2 2y agoMissing the point by a large margin...
- chamomeal 2y agoAt the resume stage?
- rockemsockem 2y agoAt the interview stage
- rockemsockem 2y agoIf they're both nitpicking then they are in fact both mediocre at best.
- dennis_jeeves2 2y agoYou cannot say either way. There was a point I was trying to get at: Devs access each other just as several religions people do : one's own religion is the best, and that there cannot be any other right way to do things. This why the whole hiring/interview process is broken.
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