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by ccajas 8y ago
Well he is self-employed, but if I called myself self-employed that would be an understatement. I'm actually unemployed and wondering what I could to to capitalize on my current skills that will also not be hampered by my weak soft ski
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by ccajas 8y ago
I'm on the 1-2 hour limit camp. As much as I know a lot of people find whiteboard tests awkward, or don't like coding tests with short time limits, I actually prefer them over take-home coding challenges. If a company requires tha
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Ask HN: Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?
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by ccajas 8y ago
I have no experience working with software "at scale" so it may be that my interviewing experiences are different from yours. Generally speaking, though, software developers at non-tech companies, or at agencies for small-med busi
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by ccajas 8y ago
It's not simply compensation, but the variety and flexibility of learning or working in different things, and from others. Try doing that with a startup whose bulk of development is done overseas. No personal work connection, lack of m
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by ccajas 8y ago
>but it’s also incredibly easy to learn how to do things the wrong way, if you have no one to learn from Yep, say hello to startups who go cheap by outsourcing to developers who are not as good in their craft or don't care about lea
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by ccajas 8y ago
Why have I been told to begin your career at a startup, before you work at a big corp in order to "level up" your work environment? I took that advice and it has just left me starving for better compensation and, and am pretty lac
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Ask HN: How should I seek work as a freelancer to earn income ASAP?
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by ccajas 8y ago
How long ago did you interview with them? I have just started to get a first reply from them today (after submitting my resume).
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by ccajas 8y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Web developer/game developer with remote experience. My interests revolve around data viz, games, and simulation work. I have 10 years total experience, including 3 years of remote work. I
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by ccajas 8y ago
Software developers in the bottom 20-25 percentile of their local area make roughly half of the local median in most places in the US. A lot of people seem to think you have it automatically made in the shade if you're a software engin
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Ask HN: How would you turn a web agency into a SaaS for building websites?
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by ccajas 8y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago, IL or remote Web developer/game developer with remote experience. My interests revolve around data viz, games, and simulation work. I have 10 years total experience, 3 years remote. I'm handy at hel
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C++ for JavaScript developers(pawelgrzybek.com)
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by ccajas 8y ago
I am not as extroverted, so working remote has actually made me less proactive about going out. I'm not much into athletic activities, or meeting up with strangers, and I find solo activities/hobbies more interesting most of the t
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by ccajas 8y ago
I am introverted as well but I have not been able to get much motivated into getting into group activities with a lot of friends at once, or especially strangers. And never having a SO or a serious relationship in my life, now being age 36
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Ask HN: How has working remotely for long periods affected your social skills?
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Ask HN: What makes IT certificates more valuable than most programmer certs?
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by ccajas 8y ago
I wrote a Greasemonkey script that creates page previews for Wikipedia, so I could cover more ground understanding terms and articles. This was about a year before Wikipedia's official page preview feature was made live.
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by ccajas 8y ago
I've seen that site posted a few times. It's really becoming one of my favorite sites for career skills.
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The other side of his comment about the class divide is kind of telling though. It implies that the middle class is the most unstable of the three major economic classes in the long run. And with the current system of constraints, content
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Ask HN: Which companies are in the business of fixing broken hiring practices?
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I'm 36 jobless and have swung back to living with my mom after being laid off a few times. Eventually I ended up going broke. Constantly looking for work when you're not employed can do a lot of damage to your leverage and you&#x2
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Ask HN: What freelancing platforms don't follow the bid/auction model?
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Ask HN: Non-internal tech recruiters with former tech background...your story?
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by ccajas 8y ago
Academia as in attending school, or going into teaching or research? I am considering this to bolster my skills and career options, either for ECE or full CS degree. I don't have the accomplishments you do. Instead I see academia as on
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by ccajas 8y ago
Being hyped up as a good candidate and relayed from person to person only to have no leads or offers for you makes you feel like you encountered the biggest farce in your recent time.
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by ccajas 8y ago
Do: * Admit when you can't speak geek, and explain your own personal work background where it's relevant to the skills you're scouting for. Don't: * Hype candidates up and stroke their egos a lot, by getting them to as m
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Ask HN: Where could I post VOD's to be coached on interviews?
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You seem to be an example of survivorship bias. The majority of startups fail within 4 years, so your experience made you more marketable towards enterprise work as you progressed. Your experience is not the norm for people working at start

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