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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
For me the recruiter went on holiday and by the time they came back I had a new job lol
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I wouldn't mind but I have no background in it at all
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
It's a bit hard to find something. Usually, people who contribute do so because they're users of a project and want to fix bugs or add features, so that's one way. Other than that, most of my open source work was just created
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Yep, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Definitely going to look at this board, thanks :D
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Not really, I've been thinking that for years, it's just been hitting me more recently. But it seems unlikely for me that anyone in general tech would know much about the science industry or positions of "research engineer&qu
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
yeah I have absolutely no idea. When I look on linkedin, google, typical job boards and others, I mostly find startups.
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I worked in the game industry for years and left it, I've made games before. The engine I'm making is for a very specific need (initially made to help someone else make a specific game), a few people have been using it to make the
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I don't know why you keep being so aggressive but you don't know me or anything about me and you're making weird wide ranging judgements just based on the fact that I'm asking for advice on how to find more interesting j
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Yeah my last few job searches went a bit like that too. Sending CVs to try interesting new things gets not replies, meanwhile I get dozens of recruiters offering me well paid jobs as long as I stay in the same general areas. It's reall
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Yeah, seriously I'd put a big warning on that one. I've been burned many times (and know many people who have) being the nice one who does the hard boring work that no one wants to deal with, only for the company to then make you
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I've been thinking I should get into consulting for a long time, as I tend to like fixing higher level problems when I arrive at a company. But that seems impossible to break into without already having a network to draw from.
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
That's probably true. The work I always love the most is building tools to help other people at work... On the other hand I've found those companies hard to break into because they often expect you to have specific expertise in th
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Honestly, Facebook has tried to hire me like 3 times now and every time I got a completed offer at a different job by the time they finished organising their 8-step interview process so I never finished it. FAANG might be interesting but th
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
yeah, I'm thinking of enabling it, but what I'm making is a game engine that only has a few users for now and it would be a very very long way to being able to make a living income from game developers sponsoring it. Maybe eventua
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
It does seem interesting, I've wanted to get more into electronics since I played with HDL when following the nand 2 tetris book. Though I'm not super experienced in low level or Rust yet (which is why I want to get into it) and I
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty bitter about it too. I've seen it in both industries I've worked at, it's so bad. Actual technical recruiters will contact me and be interested despite me barely matching their stack, and I once god hire
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
That's pretty much where I currently am. "easy" job, the rest of my free time is spent on open source side projects. But it's just not a great feeling to be paid to make nothing useful, and to have so much of my life be
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I've been thinking of looking at healthcare as this seems like an obvious good area to make something useful, though I was only finding weird startups doing things like "mental health coaching subscription app on mobile". You
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I'm building something interesting but it's not something that will make money, because it's an open source tool and open source devs generally don't get paid for their work lol. Outside of that, and outside of the obvio
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Definitely agree, though I wonder where you find those types of jobs? I recently tried looking at government jobs but didn't find anything that was either remote or near me. Not sure where to find the rest. Because indeed, almost every
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
I'm not talking about specific people, just in general. People making decisions in companies are looking for revenue, and what brings money isn't necessarily aligned with public good. A lot of things that would be good for people&
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
tbh I have a great side project that people like and that I'm working on in my spare time, but it's a game engine and not really something that can be turned into a living
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Something useful that feels like it's worth being made, technically interersting to make (which to me generally means challenging to keep me interested), and with good quality tech practices where you can feel satisfied you've don
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
See the specialising part is interesting to me, because I've found a lot of companies expect you to be very specialised these days, and it really gets in the way of trying new things. I was originally in the game industry and left it b
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
In theory that's true, but in practice the people at the top deciding what's profitable aren't working for maximising public good, so it doesn't work anymore
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
That is interesting but what I find hard is getting a foot in the door when changing expertise field. In my case, I'm generally a mix of full stack dev and game dev (specialised in HTML5 game dev). I want to do more systems stuff (part
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago
Thanks! That seems pretty good
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Ask HN: Where do you find the interesting jobs?
223 points by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 4y ago|248 comments
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 5y ago
A lot of companies are just scared of open source and automatically refuse to be involved in open sourcing any code
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by uVacCXNiiJCTnYB 5y ago
If anything, side projects are one of the only ways to not get bored of coding. Coding for work often means sacrificing good satisfying work forr quick results, whereas coding at home means taking the time to do what you want as well as you

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