nonines

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by nonines 6y ago
Same here. I'd love to hear more.
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by nonines 6y ago
Yes, backend seems to be a little slower paced. With the notable exception of cloud-native platforms, especially kubernetes ecosystem where seems to be one new framework every week.
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by nonines 6y ago
Similar experience here for wikimedia. Unbelievably unprofessional.
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by nonines 6y ago
That was an interview for SRE role. One of the big ones. SRE btw has come to mean "you must know everything...in order to do on-calls" but that deserves a whole post in itself. --- I'm OK with complexities, etc. I get why the
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by nonines 6y ago
To be fair most of the interviewers seemed to work along these lines that you describe. (That's why I managed to get quite close quite a few times - I was never big on memory so it's impossible get the details on WB). Yet, if the
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by nonines 6y ago
That is not what I said. That is what you understood. In any case my experience up to now is being rejected with no good reasons (at least IMO) relatively far in the game. If you are looking for reasons to reject someone it is easy to find
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by nonines 6y ago
Thank you
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by nonines 6y ago
Well, I'm so fed up with feeling a failure after all that effort that I'm kicking my past young self in the arse for not joining the merchant-navy when I could (too old for that now too). So - no it's not going overly well(1
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by nonines 6y ago
I'm in Dublin but I'm looking to either move up to a FAANG (well that plan went the Titanic way) and/or relocate to Germany. My impression too is that German IT companies don't care so much about age but there are other
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by nonines 6y ago
Well I was judging by the results mostly. Got the cold shoulder deep in the hiring process from a lot of them. I totally agree with the sentiment about the tech trends. It's particularly evident in anything frontend which is why I most
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by nonines 6y ago
Is there a beard dye as well? (I can't believe I'm actually asking this)
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by nonines 6y ago
I quit applying to youngster-roles (I can now smell them with quite an accuracy) and focused on SRE/Devops roles. They come with a tolerance for grey hair (or at least they claim to) albeit they are so broad and deep at the same time t
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by nonines 6y ago
That's the good scenario but after so many times one starts to wonder.
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by nonines 6y ago
I'm currently in Ireland. Was looking to move to Germany but I interviewed in Ire quite a bit as well.
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by nonines 6y ago
latest trends - not an issue for me. Nurturing my network though. I might be too arrogant or proud but I think I have worked too hard to be dependent on my network for a job. I should be able to move to a nice job without any network push.
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by nonines 6y ago
Yes. But the definition of fail is quite broad. My bitter experience shows that even simple syntactical errors (which are easy to make on a whiteboard especially if you are multilingual) were reason enough to throw me out.
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by nonines 6y ago
I don't want to turn this to a flame war but please. I've went through all FAAG (no engineering for N in EU). The interviews apart from never-ending seem to be stacking odds towards fresh graduates. Why else do all of them insist
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by nonines 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. So what did you do? How did you move on and out?
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Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?
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