alex-yo

The most funny thing is that I get no counter-offer. I always here (or rather read) "yes, we are impressed by your experience, it is really great, but you know, you wanted too much, we have lots of others who want much less". When I asked for a counter offer I get either no reply, or something like "We don't give counter offers at this moment, you wanted much above the average that we pay".

And I wanted just about the same money I was earning in my previous job.

From my perspective the job hunt is a one shot thing. I give some figure, they stop being interested. No negotiation, no counter-offer, no other things.

So it seems like the market is not that good for programmers, or I'm just so unlucky.

I think you'd better have a blog. This way you can answer the questions you find e.g. on SO, but no one will change your answer.

That's true, there is just a shortage of the job offers. I'm looking for a remote job now. All the job boards have between 2 to 5 job offers per day. To each of them answer thousands of people.

The aggregators are even worse. They are automated. That's why they contain an ad even when it has no remote allowed.

I was arguing that in my previous job I was in fact a technical team leader, I was spending half of each day on showing people how to use databases, I was organizing trainings and conference talks. I just didn't get the job of course.

The most frustrating thing I experience now is that companies don't want to have a programmer in my age. And I cannot be a manager "because you don't have any experience in managing people".

That's sad, frustrating and depressing. Especially that I'm looking for a job now.

However companies don't want to talk with me about getting a job regardless my 14 year of commercial experience. Sometimes I hear during an interview "oh, you did so many things, I wish I could have the same experience". And then I don't get this job.

And no, I'm not expensive. I usually don't get to the point where they ask me for the money.

I'm thinking about starting my own company with my own products. This will be much harder, but it's better to have this kind of job than none.

And I just stopped replying to the job adverts with "young team".

So, basically, I can write such a list for every language I know.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 15 years of full stack experience (programming, administering, DBA, organizing trainings, integrating different things using plenty of languages at the same time).

  Commercial experience with: Java, C++, Python, PostgreSQL, SQL, GIS, Javascript, Ruby (and some more).

  During all the years I have also used hundreds of libraries, and worked in dozens of different projects, and industries.

  Many years of working remote in a multinational team.

Email: [email protected]

I'm outside USA, and the tax thing is simple: I send you an invoice, you send me money. Nothing more, nothing less. No insurance problems, or different law issues.

As for the conferences, I attended some, I was even presenting on some. I learned nothing, as most of the stuff I had already known. Currently I learn from books. Usually from algorithms, and math ones. This is the kind of stuff you won't find on conferences. Btw, many conference videos are available on youtube, so going there to learn is IMHO not the main reason for a conference.

The outcome was simple: his estimation was good, the team was lazy.