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by world32 7y ago
> The more time I spend looking for jobs and practicing interviews Maybe you should stop practicing interviews, and start practicing being better at your job?
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by world32 7y ago
Sounds like this is your problem. The interviewing is more of a sympton rather than a cause. I'm not the US, but I find it hard to imagine it is much different in Chicago to where I am in Northern England - companies are dying to find
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by world32 7y ago
Its entirely possible to get a junior ruby on rails job outside of london earning 30k, even 35k is not unheard of for a junior. Just go on any of the big job sites, search "Junior Ruby on Rails" in your area and take a look at wha
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by world32 7y ago
It really seems like every thread asking anything remotely personal (career, moving to another city, work/life balance etc.) is met with the answer "Sure you don't have depression? Go see a therapist."!
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by world32 7y ago
Can you elaborate on that please?
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by world32 7y ago
You expressed what I was trying to get at so perfectly and so much better than I ever did. This is what I'm talking about. Not just "Hey can I see your codebase? Oh, you don't have 100% test coverage and I've seen some v
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by world32 7y ago
It doesn't necessarily mean they have puritanical standards. But for me it would offer a glimpse into what its like to be a developer at a company. Like, does the company tell developers to just "make it work" in the quickest
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by world32 7y ago
> We need developers who understand that the code exists to serve the business and not for its own sake. You're absolutely right about that - there is always a balance to be achieved between delivering a feature/product on time
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by world32 7y ago
Nice site & product. Can I ask how successful these posts were in driving traffic to your site?
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Ask HN: Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?
75 points by world32 7y ago|42 comments
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by world32 7y ago
Another point I would add is - choose your next job (after the break) wisely. Just like working for large corporations, startups have their own set of downsides. I wouldn't say they have fewer downsides - just different ones. You can f
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by world32 7y ago
> Moreover I see people who are much worse off then me who continue to grind and that makes me feel even more guilty for doing this. Unless you want to be a saint and donate all your money to charity then there will always be people less
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by world32 7y ago
> He made the argument that globalization (read: Asia) is pumping out masses of CS people who corporations will continue to use to write cheap code and do CS work at low ass wages. Haven't we been through that before?
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by world32 7y ago
It sounds like the electrician here has a far higher chance of doing any of those things then your average university graduate to be honest!
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by world32 7y ago
There are different interpretations of what FIRE is. FIRE in the sense of saving money in order to be less reliant on potentially unfulfilling jobs is certainly a good idea. However, FIRE as some kind of end-goal to be achieved by all means
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by world32 8y ago
> the whole concept seems to be so far outside of most people's frame of reference What? Are you living in the same world as me? Pretty much every industry apart from manual labour or craftsmanship related work uses software. If you
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by world32 8y ago
Yeah I don't really see law or medicine as any different in this regard. People all have a basic idea of what makes you ill, what various diseases, treatments etc. are. But most people don't understand the intricacies of the endoc
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by world32 8y ago
I think you are describing the work of a junior software engineer. Sure a junior engineer can do "google-fu" and glue together a working application but there is so much more to being a software engineer than that. Here is just a
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by world32 8y ago
> browsers + javascript + css (frontend opensource) ... to backend , many frameworks for each langauge, many languages all documented ... to persistence layer (mysql , postgres, mssql), and finally server but as OP said thats on amazon,
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by world32 8y ago
Can you give a real world example of glueing "together a bunch of Free Open Source offerings"? I've heard the idea that thats all software engineers really do before but it doesn't seem realistic at all.
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by world32 8y ago
I wouldn't use this, for the same reasons other people have said. Though I would say props for trying to do some market validation and getting real feedback rather than letting an idea fester in your head without telling anyone. You wi
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by world32 8y ago
> I was working for a well-established startup with a mission I really believed in, and which felt like it had the potential to be a massive success and shake up the industries it was doing business in. There is your problem. You naively
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by world32 8y ago
Thats an answer to a completely different question though? The question wasn't "would you work more hours for more pay".
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by world32 8y ago
> I can find pentesting services for companies. I can find some which claim to test the security of CEOs and celebrities. But I can't find anything for ordinary people. I'm sorry to be harsh on this person but this is quite a d
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by world32 8y ago
Sure, the framework's way might not always be the best way of doing things but I prefer to just accept it and move on. It saves spending time debating, deciding, experimenting with different ways of structuring code, when it probably d
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by world32 8y ago
"hire a Master Plumber with a team of juniors to fix it" In that situation I would consider the "Master Plumber" akin to a lead developer or project manager. Which goes back to my main point - in software development you
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by world32 8y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. Absolutely age discrimination exists but there are also other factors at play in some situations. Without specific domain knowledge or management experience there is a ceiling to how much experience hel
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by world32 8y ago
I think thats your problem to focus on. Why are not getting these jobs? If you have ~10 years experience as a software engineer you shouldn't have so much problem getting a job. Even if you are not a "skilled expert in a topic&quo
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by world32 8y ago
I've was in exactly the same position as you, "why would anyone want to risk it on a startup when you can make several hundreds of pounds a day contracting". And now I am working on my own side project. You get used to the mo
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by world32 8y ago
My theory is that a lot of software engineering (I'm assuming this is what you're referring to by "IT"?) really comes down to basic CRUD operations between a front-end UI and a database. The real challenge is to architec

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