4 ms·

Don't give up on 10x too quickly. > You're experience went a little further than mine, I got no offers. Friend of mine (more experience than me, less than you

by kanzure 13y ago

Don't give up on 10x too quickly. > You're experience went a little further than mine, I got no offers. Friend of mine (more experience than me, less than you, well known on Hacker News) was in their first round and also got zero offers. Frankly, I think it might be literally random. I don't have enough data to prove this. > I was surprised by how few companies actually viewed my profile. They provide the list at the end of the auction and it was interesting to see how it matched up with my own. They didn't notify me about the list at the end, but they did show me a hidden page near the beginning which continued to be populated. I was also able to see about 200 other companies based on logos. I think not every company had logos. > DeveloperAuction uses Craigslist and LinkedIn to hire their own also angel.co > It is exhausting to go through each company, follow-up, schedule interviews hate this > The code on github is never looked at. hate this too; i wish someone would actually read my code for once. > willful ignorance and lackadaisical interviewing attitude more hate. The interview process is a terrible experience that I would never wish upon my closest friends or family. I would be absolutely ashamed of admitting I did this to other human beings. There needs to be dramatically more transparency upfront about salary (hell, let me negotiate in advance) and how long the hiring pipeline is. How the company treats people moving through their hiring pipeline is a big indicator for how the hell they treat employees. I want a place that treats me with dignity and respect, and if companies can't offer that, I'll stick with consulting, thanks. > RGBDS RGBDS hates me. Thank you for your efforts on RGBDS. It is probably the one tool I regularly use that causes me the most trouble (crashy). I am not sure anyone has run such a large project through it before. Hey we could be hatred buddies!

justinlloyd 13y ago
re 10x: I filled out the profile more completely and then emailed one of the founders to say "I'll supply references if we both decide to move forward with this." They said they would be in touch. Not too worried about 10x. I am used to picking up freelance and consultant work and do my own marketing and sales, it would just be nice to have another channel of dealflow to smooth over the feast/famine times. re No offers: I was wondering if I was to be the first on DeveloperAuction that would receive no offers. Glad to hear I am not the only one. Agreed on the randomness -- if the stars align just right -- and the opacity does not help. I was contacted by one of the founders of DeveloperAuction to ask if they could use my profile in their marketing, but when I pointed out that I was probably not going to receive any offers, should they really be holding up my profile as an example of what to do. I heard nothing back from them after that. re List of companies: I got the list at the end. I took a screenshot and saved it off. re Exhausting: I don't think it will ever change really. "This is how it has always been done" and whilst the system is utterly broken, there is a long chain of component people with only a few of those components willing to change. re Github: "Github is the new resume" is a lot of bollocks. However, it means I can just direct people to the code rather than having to email it. Though I still hear "We don't know how to use github, can you just email me a .zip?" and the best one "What do you mean all of it? No, that's not right, you must have used someone else's code to base this off of" which usually dovetails in to "Oh, you only work on your own projects? Well that's not good, you really need to learn to work in a collaborative environment." You can do nothing but roll your eyes at statements like these. Whilst I am not volunteering to patch RGBDS, I am surprised it is "crashy" for you. Like all bad customer service: "I am sorry to hear of your plight but there is fuck all I am willing to do to fix it." Or would you prefer I invoke the OpenSource mantra of "You've got the code, you could fix it yourself!" :) RGBDS has quite a few quirks (it started as a hack because the GG tools sucked big time). I would guess you're probably pushing it to the limits on the Pokemon games. The tool was used to ship hundreds of games but probably not on the magnitude that you are stretching it to with those particular games.

by kanzure 13y ago

justinlloyd 13y ago

re 10x: I filled out the profile more completely and then emailed one of the founders to say "I'll supply references if we both decide to move forward with this." They said they would be in touch. Not too worried about 10x. I am used to picking up freelance and consultant work and do my own marketing and sales, it would just be nice to have another channel of dealflow to smooth over the feast/famine times. re No offers: I was wondering if I was to be the first on DeveloperAuction that would receive no offers. Glad to hear I am not the only one. Agreed on the randomness -- if the stars align just right -- and the opacity does not help. I was contacted by one of the founders of DeveloperAuction to ask if they could use my profile in their marketing, but when I pointed out that I was probably not going to receive any offers, should they really be holding up my profile as an example of what to do. I heard nothing back from them after that. re List of companies: I got the list at the end. I took a screenshot and saved it off. re Exhausting: I don't think it will ever change really. "This is how it has always been done" and whilst the system is utterly broken, there is a long chain of component people with only a few of those components willing to change. re Github: "Github is the new resume" is a lot of bollocks. However, it means I can just direct people to the code rather than having to email it. Though I still hear "We don't know how to use github, can you just email me a .zip?" and the best one "What do you mean all of it? No, that's not right, you must have used someone else's code to base this off of" which usually dovetails in to "Oh, you only work on your own projects? Well that's not good, you really need to learn to work in a collaborative environment." You can do nothing but roll your eyes at statements like these. Whilst I am not volunteering to patch RGBDS, I am surprised it is "crashy" for you. Like all bad customer service: "I am sorry to hear of your plight but there is fuck all I am willing to do to fix it." Or would you prefer I invoke the OpenSource mantra of "You've got the code, you could fix it yourself!" :) RGBDS has quite a few quirks (it started as a hack because the GG tools sucked big time). I would guess you're probably pushing it to the limits on the Pokemon games. The tool was used to ship hundreds of games but probably not on the magnitude that you are stretching it to with those particular games.