If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by cjohnson318 on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:38PM (#32698430)

Dumb question, have you tried shorter term contracts? Have you tried networking with your peers from your bootcamp? I get that it's better to have Big Stable Names on your resume, but there's a lot of places that just need things done, and any experience is better than nothing.

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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by dave_sullivan on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:17AM (#32699247)

Do you have any leads on short term contracts? Would accept one in an instant.

The problem is upwork takes a 20% cut and has bad terms and has a very flaky client base, while everything that VC money touches pays way better but hires non-contract fulltime only (fine) and has these rediculous interview cycles that I never seem to pass through.

I think if you put me in a stack of candidates that did leet code, i am basically never in the top 3 fastest, so that makes me unemployable in a system where resumes dont matter, personality is suspected to be bullshit, and speed of test completion is the only metric that can be used to rank candidates. Not in the top 3 fastest test takers? Get fucked.

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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by cjohnson318 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:25AM (#32825531)

Oops, I didn't see your response; I'll shoot you an email from connor[dot]labaume[dot]etc.

I've never interacted with UpWork. My experience is that smaller companies pay fairly well, the interview process is usually easier, and you can learn a lot more about development, and that particular industry. The down side is that office politics matters more, you might have challenges with setting realistic expectations, and you might have trouble with comparisons to the last programmer they hired/fired.

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