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by anon50118810 4y ago
Could you please talk a little more about the ease of hiring for these positions? For example it looks like Bishop Fox has around 400 employees, and on their careers page at https://bishopfox.com/careers they're hiring
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I didn't actually ask for personal advice in either the other post or this one. The other post was to raise awareness, start a discussion and possibly generate some sympathy toward job seekers. This post asked for general advice on fin
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I understand what you mean about looking beyond job sites. One problem with that though is that I'm not interested in extremely small startups, because I think they would be a terrible fit for me, so by the time an employer is large en
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I appreciate the instinct to try to help me personally, but as I said in another comment I'm keeping a lot back for privacy reasons so it's difficult for me to engage in that sort of discussion. There are issues with my overall si
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by anon50118810 4y ago
It's an idea. In the past I haven't had good luck with these sorts of vetting situations. Also Toptal/Turing seem aimed at employers who I suppose would reject me now if I applied directly, so applying through these sites fee
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by anon50118810 4y ago
These are the same kind of listings you can find on LinkedIn or many other job sites, not really answering the question of finding especially available jobs.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
This might work for some people, but it's not really a substitute for salaried work for me, nor would I hope to stick around long enough for my rates to rise to something approaching the low end of the U.S. FTE market.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Toptal is the opposite to the sort of answer I'm looking for. Their model is to vet the "Top 3%" of employees to prescreen them for prestigious employers. Turing is similar. I'm looking more for how the bottom 50% can fi
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I see. I've applied to some places like that and I don't think they're much different from other FTE positions as far as availability.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Thoughtbot only has two jobs listed at https://thoughtbot.com/jobs , so it's not really a "job shop" if I understand what you mean. Could you please explain a little more?
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by anon50118810 4y ago
My own requirements almost never play a part, in the very large majority of cases I either get no response or rejected after the application or ghosted or rejected after a pleasant conversation with an internal recruiter. However my require
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Ask HN: Fallback remote job options for an experienced developer in the U.S.?
30 points by anon50118810 4y ago|44 comments
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by anon50118810 4y ago
You're in a good position to try to answer the question yourself since you're actually working in ML now. Would a master's help you at your current company? Why or why not?
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by anon50118810 4y ago
An experienced software developer in the U.S. might make $150k/year and provide $500k/year value or more to their employer. The one-time $25k fee a recruiter made from placing that developer is so minor compared to all that that i
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm not an entrepreneur or into jewelry so I hope this advice isn't out of place. Your jewelry is too inexpensive to be really handmade. You have a metal charm bracelet with several parts selling for $6. I'm assuming you&#x27
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm struggling to find a job without timezone issues. It's just a tough market right now. Have you tried applying to places closer to home? There are billions of people within a few hours of you in either direction. You're wi
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by anon50118810 4y ago
That makes sense, in fact I wrote about something similar recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33775048 and following. Are you uncomfortable asking for $90k? Even $90k can be too low depending on the circumstanc
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by anon50118810 4y ago
What do you mean by "Getting interviews is hard without requesting a $90k+ salary"?
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by anon50118810 4y ago
It's about making it clear what you want as an employer and hiring fairly. Employers should decide on whatever (legal) requirements they want candidates to have and then hire the first person who comes into the funnel who meets those r
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but yes, requiring LeetCode mastery also skews hiring in the same direction.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Sorry, I'm keeping this account anonymous and I don't want to mess around with creating a throwaway contact point, and I also don't want to commit to reviewing this later. Fair question to ask though! I'm glad you found
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Asking someone to calculate the mean of a group of numbers is so basic that it's admitting that your prescreening process to that point is broken. I hope we're talking about Zoom interviews and you're not actually bringing pe
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by anon50118810 4y ago
So far I'm mostly limiting my search to organizations with single page applications, and unfortunately over time I've gotten comfortable with filling out applications through specific ATSes. So, for example if an employer uses Gre
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I've been lucky enough not to have seen that happen, though I have seen at least one candidate tragically fall apart on a more complex question, and that can be painful for everyone. Why do you keep using these agencies that send you u
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm actively in a job search so here are some things that I want and problems I've seen on your site. I don't know if this is a serious project for you or not so please take this at whatever level of seriousness you like. I d
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I don't think anything can substitute for actually passing at least a small test. In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0 Gordon Ramsey says he asks new cooks to make scrambled eggs, and if they can make a good
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by anon50118810 4y ago
For most of the hiring funnel you want to evaluate everyone the same way so that you can compare each candidate apples-to-apples and so the hiring team builds expertise in the interview process. This means a standard set of interview questi
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Enterprise hiring is a mystery to me. Big companies, especially banks are so flush with money that they should be able to hire any number of decent developers in any general area just like turning on a faucet: allow remote work and offer to
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Theoretically it shouldn't vary much by either industry or technical role, since qualified tech people are basically fungible in the sense that they can train themselves to basic competence in any area, so the fast hiring side should b
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by anon50118810 4y ago
From the employer side it's like being a consumer shopping for reliable goods, such as clothing or appliances. You don't want something suspiciously cheap but you also know the marginal gains at the high end are probably minimal o

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