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I get 2-3 emails per day in LinkedIn. I read all of them. It gives me confidence that I'm hot and it's easy for me to just move on from my current job. When I
by msoad 14y ago
I get 2-3 emails per day in LinkedIn. I read all of them. It gives me confidence that I'm hot and it's easy for me to just move on from my current job.
When I see Twitter, Facebook, HP, Google and Apple are reaching out to me, it gives me confidence.
I sometimes use small but rich startups that can afford high salaries as a tool to get a raise. Just by bringing their offer to my manager's table if it's required. This year I'm targeting $180K salary. It would be impossible without recruiters help.
- username111 14y agoJust a heads up, confidence is the correct noun to use. Confident is the adjective form.
- msoad 14y agoEdited. Thanks. I am not native English speaker. :)
- aaronblohowiak 14y agoNeat obscure language thing: adjectival is the adjectival form of adjective.
- Odin9 14y agoHow did you go from "started programming (for real) about 2 years ago" to recruitment offers from Google/Apple and "targeting $180K"?
- msoad 14y agoI'm just really good at it I guess. I went to software engineering school in my homeland country but both quality of university and my desire to learn were not there. After I moved to the US all of sudden I felt in love with programming. The reason I'm not responding to big companies yet is that I don't have enough english and US work history. I failed at Yahoo! just because I was not able to speak good English(they said it).
- StavrosK 14y agoYou can get recruitment offers without knowing any programming (fake profile) and you can technically target $180k if you're making $5k. I'm not saying that's what the GP is doing, but it's not impossible!
- azth 14y agoOut of curiosity, where do you work? :) And what's your home country?
- general_failure 14y agoSarcasm is lost on the internet