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Re:Aging programmer by weatherlite on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:11AM (#32970602)
Dang those are amazing connections. Even with good connections I can only get my CV to the top of the pile and maybe some more leeway from the interviewers (which is a lot!), but never was I just skipped through the whole thing and gotten an offer.

You have some good friends are they are high up the chain I guess.

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Re:Aging programmer by cortesoft on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:01PM (#32977304)
Well, I have only had 3 jobs after the first one... I tend to stay at places for a while. My first company was shut down suddenly by the parent company, and I was recruited by a consultant we had worked with to join a startup he had joined.

I then joined the next company when the people who started that company started a new one.

When that startup failed, I was going to take a break and maybe start my own company, but a guy who had worked for me at the failed startup invited me over for margaritas and to check out his new company he had joined, and next thing I knew I had accepted a job offer.

I have been at the last job for almost 10 years.

I now have a ton of connections from people who I worked with and they then left the company. I am sure if I was interested in getting a new job, I could put some feelers out and have some offers right away. I have had people try to recruit me, but don't have much interest in leaving my current place.

I don't think my experience is that unusual. It is so hard to find good talent, sourcing from people you have worked with before is extremely valuable.

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