throwthrowthro

Re:Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:43AM (#21203104)

> then rather than promote you the org will simply hire people above you. And you will find that what you learned was not a solid foundation to move onwards.

Anecdata: junior engineer going through this process right now. Hard to move to a new company due to the specificity of the skills I developed and can't move up as they just bring in new people.

Ask HN: Interview Process Expectations

Posted by throwthrowthro on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi all, I recently interviewed for an internship position at a company and am looking to get feedback on the process.* Sent a cold email to see if they were interested in bringing me on as an intern. Get back an enthusiastic response. A video call was scheduled that their head of engineering ghosted on. When emailed, he didn't respond. After contacting my original contact, they apologized and...

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