notsurenymore

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by notsurenymore 3y ago
At least you’re good enough to work in software period.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Hah, someone a while back showed me a Jane Street job that was apparently writing/maintaining a ton of VBA. Really curious what the interview process for that job looked like.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I skipped it but I seriously regret it now. The work available to the uneducated is pretty sad. Even when I was still doing dev work, my career had a very different trajectory than friends of mine who went to school, mostly thanks to the op
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
They usually get reposted the next week.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Weird, that vast majority of jobs I see posted now (in my area of experience) are either from grifty third party recruiters or small random consulting firms. I see very few first part job postings by companies.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
One of my friends saw a job the other day. It was a non academic, non R&D, run of the mill marketing position that required… a PhD???. The pay was also pretty pathetic with the start of the range probably not much more than a PhD stipen
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I thought it was résumé collection. I’ve noticed a weird pattern lately, where I’ll see a job, apply to it, and a day or two later it’s delisted.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
A mix of both. Some months I’ll get no interviews, some months I’ll get some. When I do get them, it seems a toss up whether I don’t get past the first round, or get through the final round then get ghosted.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> and because Big Tech went on a hiring binge during the pandemic, then reversed gears in early 2023 The last company I worked for definitely did this, so the layoff was no surprise, but what I don’t get is why I’m having trouble finding
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> Most metro markets have multiple tech recruiter/contracting houses that have connections with regional employers. These have been the ones that ghost me the most. I’ve gotten plenty of messages from these types of recruiters who c
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’d be happy to branch out, but if I can’t even get work in the stack I’ve been working in for some what, am I really going to be able to branch out after a few side projects in another?
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I don’t even have an undergraduate degree. I’ve been wanting to go back for years, but I have bigger aspirations than getting a degree just to have a degree, and I don’t think I can fund it without software money.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Probably not. I don’t live in that state anymore. If I moved back I could probably get a state job, but I’m not exactly in a position to move right now. Also the benefits were not that great from what I remember. Ima few years in private in
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> What made you think that? It sounds like you might have some self esteem issues that should be addressed. Not really an esteem issue (though the current situation doesn’t help that), but as a hobbyist there was an appeal to the creativ
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> Second, it's not you, it's the programmer labor market. I keep hearing this, but then I’ll see the opposite, that the market has already corrected and it’s just incompetents that joined the industry in the times of low intere
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Ask HN: Is My Career Salvagable?
24 points by notsurenymore 3y ago|39 comments
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
It doesn’t fucking work half the time.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
It seems really bad right now. Companies seem particularly eager to filter out anyone that doesn’t match the job listing exactly right now. Every other job I see in my area of experience wants someone who’s has done a lot of work with their
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I try to buy old stuff at thrift shops. You can get nice solid wood pieces pretty cheap.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Mostly I was looking trying to do custom RF stuff, trying to create custom hardware. Could have used an SDR, but I think I still would need a solid handle on the math for that.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’m not so sure about that. Learning a programming language for example is pretty easy, iterative, and had quick feedback for me. Learning years worth of math makes my eyes glaze over. I do agree on the latter half though, regarding how the
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> "If you can use open source, you can prototype hardware" You can prototype some hardware . I’ve looked into trying to build some stuff that goes beyond what a little prepackaged MCU dev board can do, and I can’t wrap my head
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
OLE has always fascinated me. I’ve wanted to play around with it just to see what sort of cursed things I can do, but my eyes glaze over looking at WinAPI docs.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I had an old IBM luggable at one point that had the BIOS source listed in manual.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
How freedom and isolation go hand in hand.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Matches my experience
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
That’s how I was in high school, and immediately regretted it the minute I found interest in a domain where strong math ability was required.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Yeah it’s absolutely bizzare to me. Even outside of tech I know friends who have been struggling for months. One of them has recently been complaining about how the only sales role they get an interview for turns out to be grifty MLM crap.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> That counts for a lot. You shouldn't discount it. Hasn’t done me any good yet. It doesn’t get me through applications, and it doesn’t help when interviews just want you to regurgitate things with perfect accuracy/timing. Plus
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> Are you capable of doing physical work for a living, or (to be blunt) Maybe, but it would take more time than I’d like to get into shape. I do hear a lot about trade work, but the only jobs I ever see for it want highly experienced peo

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