usernamed7

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by usernamed7 1y ago
Good advice except: my friends and acquaintances are either unemployed too or working for companies not hiring for my role/region. there are no meetups in my city and the conferences one can attend only happen a few times a year and se
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by usernamed7 1y ago
again, if i did this i would not have a job right now. This is my lived experience. This is what I had to do. It is not what I wanted to have done. That's why I wrote my post, because someone out there might really be struggling with t
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by usernamed7 1y ago
what are you actually talking about. Yes, the job i found is a perfect fit for me and my skillset. I did not fake my way into something. and my point is: if you genuinely apply to a position and you never even hear back from them, not even
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by usernamed7 1y ago
That's unfortunate. To be clear: I was only applying to jobs that were a fit for my resume, and my AI generated resume was 100% truthful about my skills, background and experiences. I would not encourage applying to jobs that are entir
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by usernamed7 1y ago
There is always a choice. To be clear, i am talking about: you apply, they send you a response (sometimes automated) telling you to do a couple hours of work, and only then will they decide if they want to speak with you. This a great way t
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by usernamed7 1y ago
why subject yourself to a 5 hour coding exercise before you've even spoken to someone at the company?
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by usernamed7 1y ago
I assure you if i had done this, I would not have a job right now. This may have worked in the past, but not in this job market. It's a numbers game now, and when you've only got a few months until you're homeless you do not
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by usernamed7 1y ago
"forced entrepreneurship" is a thing, and i commend you for the effort. I tried my hand at it, but was not able to find strong PMF despite some early sales.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
This is delulu. Yes, if you know people who are hiring, or companies where people you know who work, great. By all means do that. Referrals are a strong mechanism IF you can leverage it. But nobody in my network of ~100 is in either situati
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by usernamed7 1y ago
approx 2 months: many days i'd bang out ~50 job applications, then wait a few days for new roles to show up, and repeat.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
Sure! it looked like this: call 1: general interview with recruiter call 2: Technical Interview with coding & questions call 3: Team call and culture questions call 4: call with CEO call 5: HR offer
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by usernamed7 1y ago
Exactly! So much of this is automated on their side already, as a job seeker you want to move as quickly as you can and automate as much as you can without resorting to lying or spam.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
You got it. If you KNOW the company is ACTUALLY hiring and is serious about filling the role, and it's a good fit; take the extra time. But spray and pray helps counter ghost jobs which are impossible to detect until hindsight.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
yep! you nailed it. "because I have bills to pay" is the true reason. But they want some flowery "your mission really resonates with me" BS answer.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
Game theory says if everyone else is spraying and praying, i miss out if i don't do the same. Spray and pray is not my choice, i'd rather apply to a handful of jobs and that be enough. I also discourage lying on your resume that&#
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by usernamed7 1y ago
my application was not "AI generated" nor was it for unrelated roles. Everything I applied to was in alignment with my resume. I would much rather be able to apply to a handful of jobs and for that to be enough. But I don't c
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by usernamed7 1y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Why would you want to limit people from applying to jobs? as if there are not enough barriers already. I'm not advocating for spamming to roles that are not a fit; everything i applied to alig
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Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
135 points by usernamed7 1y ago|180 comments
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by usernamed7 1y ago
This was not a good interview, it was servile and lacked any meaningful exchange.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
> One clip on Instagram, which has been viewed over 21.5 million times, shows a man ordering "a large Mountain Dew" and the AI voice continually replying "and what will you drink with that?". Are they even testing the
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by usernamed7 1y ago
it's not narrative when it is observable, verifiable facts.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
This is... not going to happen. China and Japan are very different countries. Comparing them is nothing short of a false equivalence. > ordinary people still think it is just a smog filled industrial dump China regularly has the most pol
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by usernamed7 1y ago
replace "should" with "could". I do think its wise to consider when a boolean could be inferred from some other mechanism, but i also use booleans a lot because they are the best solution for many problems. Sure, sometim
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by usernamed7 1y ago
very often i have had much better results starting with a new prompt instead of trying to continue a thread and refining from there. It has a huge impact on the quality of the output. chatGPT likes to regenerate code that has been "sum
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by usernamed7 1y ago
One thing i would add, is that a well designed system is often one that is optimized for change. It is rare that a service remains static and unchanging; browsers and libraries are regularly updated, after all. Thus if/when a developer
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by usernamed7 1y ago
People have often talked about the year of the linux desktop... this feels like it's actually it.
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by usernamed7 1y ago
this is such a shortsighted and myopic view. And wrong, it's also wrong. We should stop giving people like this a voice because they are the dumbest people to be listening to. Maybe this makes sense in cultures were 80 hour work weeks
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by usernamed7 1y ago
I'm sure it's way more than 5%, ISP's pulled the same thing with bandwidth caps to shame people. Part of the reason there is so much usage is because using claude code is like slot machine, where SOMETIMES it's right, mo
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by usernamed7 1y ago
Why are you putting down a well reasoned reply as being shallow? Isn't that... shallow? Is it because you don't want people to disagree with you or point out flaws in your arguments? Because you seem to take an absolutist black&#x
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by usernamed7 1y ago
This is why i have ALL notifications disabled, no matter the app. Companies, including apple, cannot help themselves but abuse it. Which is insane because it's a useful part of the phone functionality that I have to entirely disable be

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