That's very interesting about "developing" my fingers, I'll think on that, thank you!
Hi HN!I'm an engineer and I've always typed very poorly since I was young. My parents tried everything to get me to learn properly when it became apparent that I was predisposed to spending a lot of my life doing it, but it was already too late. I can still hear the lizard from Mavis Beacon eating the letters as I typed them.Now that I'm getting a little older, my hands don't appreciate this...
I dare say we're not posting frequently enough, that's a good point.
It's against company policy to put the range in the ad. Very very stupid, but probably nothing I can do about that.
We have three languages mentioned in the ad. But any senior candidate can be introduced to new technologies so they're not in the "requirements" section.
We could probably improve turnaround time, but the lack of applicants alongside natural attrition is making that even harder to make happen.
Thank you jhot!
Copypasta: This is a throwaway because I'm just an engineer on the team wondering if there's something obvious we're doing wrong, and I don't imagine this would be considered desirable attention by management.
Would posting a job ad on AskHN requesting feedback be acceptable? I ask because I'd have expected to see it a bunch if it were. @dang would be very appreciative of your word one way or another. Thanks mattbee.
We're a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor trying to hire for fully-remote SWEs in the "DevOps" software space (Linux, containers, k8s, yadda yadda). We post in the usual places including Who's Hiring but we haven't even managed to backfill a retirement from six months ago, and we're junior-heavy already. Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted...
Everything is double-digit YOY growth with impending exit, and kubernetes all-the-things, and DevSecOps, and SRE, and web-scale etc etc.Where are the places running their setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter grandfathered into an affordable Edgecast plan running a LAMP stack on Debian using borg for backups?This may read like satire, but I promise I'm seriously asking.Or am I just way too...
The proposal of tiring yourself out on something you enjoy and can't fail at is really interesting, thank you!
I'm pretty thoroughly burned out. I've been a cog in a very broken machine for too long, but I stayed because I love the people and was a highly motivated useful idiot.Now that I've managed to get myself ready to be on the market, what should I be looking for in a new job such that it won't inhibit recovery (and perhaps aid in it)?Some thoughts I've had: * Take a long break instead (which I...