petsormeat

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Refusal after Refusal(harvarddesignmagazine.org)
55 points by petsormeat 8y ago|48 comments
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by petsormeat 8y ago
Out of curiosity: what do you think when you meet the candidate, and it’s obvious they have much more than ten years of work experience? Is there something the candidate can do to put you at ease? I’ve noticed some anxious double-takes in i
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by petsormeat 8y ago
After 15 years of front-end dev, I now work in retail. Some of my other peers are scraping by with Uber/Lyft. Some are muddling through as housewives or substitute teaching. And, yes, Bay Area tech hiring is needlessly hostile for men
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by petsormeat 8y ago
A lot of us drop out mid-career. I'd argue there's more a shortage of female engineering directors, VPs, CTOs.
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by petsormeat 8y ago
Oh, there are a bunch of us, even here in the SF Bay Area. Trouble is, we're older than 35, or don't have degrees from "top" schools, and/or don't have the "passion" for bizarre extended hiring ritual
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by petsormeat 9y ago
Lawdy. Was Sarah Palin her speechwriter?
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by petsormeat 9y ago
+1 on social dancing. There are explicit rules about the interaction, which makes it less exhausting than freeform chat.
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by petsormeat 9y ago
+1 to this. I'm in my fifties. I advance rapidly in the interview process...until the Skype or in-person encounter, when I'm revealed to be twice the age of the "senior" developer talking with me. I weathered the dot-com
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by petsormeat 9y ago
I also graduated high school in 1984. By that time, even my small-town American school had a room full of TRS-80s (cassette tape storage!) and a semester-long class in BASIC. I remember the class being evenly split between boys and girls, a
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by petsormeat 10y ago
I attended a bootcamp in 2014. I regret it. I entered because I wanted to switch from front-end development to full-stack. I'd really enjoyed what little I'd done with Ruby and Rails, so I fell for the pitch of this bootcamp that
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by petsormeat 10y ago
I'm a fifty-year-old developer, and a woman. Apparently, I was hired by my current company a year ago to be a crash test dummy/scapegoat, rather than an agent of righteous refactoring to a dreadful legacy codebase mostly written
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by petsormeat 10y ago
Heck, that's what I did--25 years ago. The low value of many bachelor degrees in terms of employment has been a common experience for a lot of Americans.
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by petsormeat 10y ago
Anybody besides me impressed that they released data about employee age ranges?
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by petsormeat 11y ago
I think that explains some of the charm of the old Victorian/Edwardian era flats in many U.S. cities. If unmolested by "renovation," they'll have the original floor plans, which are much like you describe. They're g
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by petsormeat 11y ago
I'm 50, and an American. I've never owned a car. I can attest to the stigma of not traveling via personal motor vehicle, and the senseless barriers we've erected to getting through one's daily life by means other than ca