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Re:Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wonderi... by matwood on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:52PM (#31814114)
Yep, the only way I'll send a blind resume and think about jumping through hoops is if it's a super interesting company I want to work for. Otherwise, I just asked my friends and network and skip all the hiring BS.
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Re:Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wonderi... by geekbird on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:59PM (#31816639)
I've found some companies are so process bound that they'll go the full set of interview, test, coding rounds even for a personal referral.

I have over 20 years of experience, and then they wonder why I start laughing when they start asking the newbie basic questions. It get even more absurd when they start asking about stuff that no one does more than once or twice a year except in very "edge case" type jobs. I'm a sysadmin, not a full time software developer, but I still get the dweebs who want me to do a leetcode b-tree sort with whatever fancy algorithm they read about last weekend in the hot language du jour.

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