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Ask HN: How to sell myself to a company downplaying my holes in experience?
6 points by ccajas 8y ago|5 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
The point of whiteboard interviews are supposedly to understand a person's thought process when they're solving a problem. They're supposed to explain step by step so the interviewer can pick their brain a little. If an inter
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by ccajas 8y ago
To be honest I am surprised of the tolerance levels between quality of work and quality of the interviewing. In some engineering fields, I'd expect that such inconsistency in hiring practices would result in hiring someone that causes
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by ccajas 8y ago
>The compelling reasons 'patio11 offered were that it will cost a lot of money and years of opportunity cost. Your return on investment on a Masters CS degree will come over time. For example, once you finish the degree, you should
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Ask HN: What government contractors would you recommend for work?
3 points by ccajas 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
Are you the same person as the OP? Just checking since account names are similar, but different. Your story hits close to me. I have never been homeless but I have been through excessive dry spells of no work (I think taking a remote job 5
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by ccajas 8y ago
Oh boy, I've been there with the Craiglist delusionals that you described. He didn't even bother to name the business that he was trying to get built. If he can't do that, he can't be that serious about starting. They st
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by ccajas 8y ago
That's the huge motivation freeze for some. Knowing that, in a typical hiring process, you have to come in first place among a list of candidates for a given job, when you have generally not been used to seeing yourself as a person who
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Ask HN: How do you survive the tech hub market with no contacts?
1 points by ccajas 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What would “cracking the pre-interview” be for certain tech companies?
1 points by ccajas 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
I think I found the last early stage startup I worked at through Craigslist. This was usually my stomping grounds to find some occasional part time or contract job and we had a very informal process from first phone call to job offer. This
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Ask HN: For employees, is picking a good early startup more luck than skill?
17 points by ccajas 8y ago|8 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
From my own experience, the smaller a company is, or the more removed it is from the tech industry, the more emphasis they place on specific tech stack knowledge. That is, they prefer to hire a "senior {language} engineer" and it&
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Ask HN: How to evaluate your competition for jobs as a more experienced worker?
2 points by ccajas 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
One question: Does being put on a PIP disqualify you from unemployment benefits if you get fired for not passing the PIP?
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by ccajas 8y ago
It seems to be a special case of pareidolia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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by ccajas 8y ago
Not exactly, but I was the only engineer at a small local publisher that was in transition of being acquired by a blue-chip company. But the transition seemed to be chaotic for the small company because they just had a blackout, causing the
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by ccajas 8y ago
Is this also a useful tool from an administrative point of view? One of my friends is a db admin and he has not heard of ORMs at all.
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by ccajas 8y ago
I forgot to add to my last response: is your company hiring right now? You seem very keen with seeing potential in people. Right now I am looking for that company that will not allow me to let my potential go to waste, and not overlook me.
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by ccajas 8y ago
My resumes usually don't say "References provided upon request", because if the company wants them, they'll ask me anyways. I'm the same as you with colleagues, btw. I don't really burn bridges... but I do have
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by ccajas 8y ago
I apply mainly to mid-level positions. Probably about 70% of the positions I apply to are mid-level or nondescript, about 10% senior-level, and about 20% junior-level. > A single interview faux pas can remove you from consideration. That
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by ccajas 8y ago
>Interviews are for selling yourself. Sales skills are my weakness and as you said, they don't need help turning me down. So best to just avoid situations where sales skills are needed. What are some approaches that don't need
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by ccajas 8y ago
> The biggest hurdle is just admitting to yourself where you're at and how you got there. I state that in a lot of interviews. And also that I like to learn and improve my skills. Companies don't seem to like it enough. Maybe I
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by ccajas 8y ago
As someone who has had non-trivial contract experience, how much leeway is given to independent contractors in the US to work on-site, with the in-house employees? I'm almost 100% sure I was mis-classified as an independent contractor
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by ccajas 8y ago
It's probably more of an issue of confidence than passion, because I still enjoy coding. That's what I'd want to continue doing for a living for the foreseeable future. I have also worked on personal projects, some on Github
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Ask HN: How do you fix “one/few years of experience repeated multiple times”?
12 points by ccajas 8y ago|13 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
If you want to relive the dial-up days, cap out your phone's data plan till it busts you down to 2G speeds. Now it's 48K :D I recall it was pretty easy for people to just friend each other on MySpace. And to a lesser extent Facebo
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by ccajas 8y ago
I wonder for how long traditional style of music charts and albums sales hold up for when digital streaming and downloading is becoming the norm.
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by ccajas 8y ago
I am apparently more confident (to some people) at selling a product of my own on the internet than I am at selling myself as an employee in person. They're not exactly the same for me. In any case I seek to find work that I would be h
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by ccajas 8y ago
I see you live in the same local area as I do. Would you mind if I could have a chat with you? I have worked about as long as you have, and am technically freelancing, although not to the point where I can make a sustainable living. I also

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