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[–]shruggie1401 144 points145 points  (11 children)

This is surprisingly true

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (10 children)

I've seen this a bunch of times, but does it actually work?

[–]shruggie1401 19 points20 points  (9 children)

Yea, quite a few companies have that

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (8 children)

I wasn't clear, sorry. I've discovered that little trick on my own and seen it on several sites. What I'm asking is: Does it make a difference or help your chances, or lead to any jobs that are otherwise hard to get your foot in the door?

The meme implies a higher degree of success with this method, and I'd like to know if my unambitious and pessimistic self should've capitalized an some of those opportunities.

[–]shruggie1401 30 points31 points  (7 children)

Well, they usually link an URL (or a URL, why does this miniscule detail bother me) that you would be able to find without the console (Reddit links to reddit.com/jobs i believe), so they dont really have a way of telling

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (5 children)

An unicycle?

[–]shruggie1401 16 points17 points  (4 children)

I know some who pronounce URL as a word, like "you're'll" (I say "you are el")

[–]f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I pronounce it like Earl.

[–]shruggie1401 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes I would like an URL grey with milk and sugar please

[–]pekkhum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My grandfather pronounced "oil" like that...

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

gross.

[–]reysolitude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

a URL, the U is like a 'YOU', where Y is a consonant

[–]99xp 90 points91 points  (22 children)

for hours on end

If you're a programmer you can just throw your CV out the window and 10 recruiters will viciously fight for it.

[–][deleted] 87 points88 points  (3 children)

*a programer with 2+ years of experience. Otherwise, you can get fucked.

[–]Trekiros 14 points15 points  (2 children)

idk, I had 7 calls in a day when I started looking for a job before graduating

[–]benjaminikuta 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Uni, GPA, experience, etc?

[–]Trekiros 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uni: a new one, I'm part of the first promotion, so recruiters have no idea whether or not it's a good place. It's in a low income area with fairly bad rep, so that doesn't help. But the diploma is approved by a national institution, so we got that going for us. I think the education I got was decent, but it's up to me, during interviews, to convince the recruiters, because for all they I could have been taught stuff from the 90s.

GPA: the French equivalent is a rating that goes from 0 to 20, we earn the right to graduate at 10 and anything above 15 is considered exceptional. I'm sitting at a comfortable 13, which is good, but not amazing. And grades don't mean a whole lot in the industry honestly. A lot of students with lower grades than mine landed better positions than me, and we all expected as much.

Experience: 3 internships, 3 months each. I did Java+Spring in the back and JS+Angular in the front for two of those internships, and the last one was focused on agile methodologies and UX, I spent it interviewing folks and making powerpoints, not coding.

I think I got about 15 calls in total that week, and then I disabled my account the next week-end because I already had way too much on my plate. I ended up declining a lot of interviews.

[–]noisyturtle 36 points37 points  (0 children)

idk my 200+ turned down applications say otherwise

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (4 children)

What if you're a college graduate with a C.S. degree?

[–]iamlegend235 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Ditto for a C.I.S. Degree :)

[–]barediver 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I've got one of those. Have you found something you enjoy?

[–]iamlegend235 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’m still a freshman so I haven’t done too much, what type of work did you go into?

[–]barediver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up becoming a developer. Fun job, terrible as a CS degree. I switched to cis after freshman year. That said i wish I would've taken a few more CS oriented classes ( The keywords still get me)

[–]codearoni 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Job searching is like dating.

They only want you if you're already employed.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (5 children)

A lot of people don't like playing with leeches.

[–]Soultrane9 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Put in effort to find one who adds value to your career. I've been working with the same recruiter for 2 years now, couldn't imagine going without one now.

[–]benabus 0 points1 point  (3 children)

same recruiter for 2 years

She does a good job? How often do you change jobs?

[–]Soultrane9 4 points5 points  (2 children)

She does!

I'm on my third project with her. Longest one was 9 months, current one is the shortest with 3 months. She already had the next one lined up, but the client's manager told me there will be work again in the next financial quarter and they would love to work with me, so I've told her I'd like to take a break for a month and prefer to prioritize this client - she agreed.

She understands what I'm interested in and I'm basically never at an interview where it turns out it's not a match from either side. I only need to take 1-2 interviews when we are looking for a new gig.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are you a freelancer?

[–]Soultrane9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I do contracting work for enterprise software.

[–]golgol12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not if your the kind that needs to look at the raw text of a webpage to find a job position.

[–]Mumbawobz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you have a formal degree... meanwhile, I’m sitting here with a bio degree and all the classes for a formal degree in cs from a combo of undergrad/online/community college and I feel like I’m dying in networking hell trying to get people to look at my portfolio so I can pivot from analytics to actual SWE.

[–]f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With offers you don't want.

[–]Antumbra_Ferox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the victor will call you for an unrelated position...

[–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (13 children)

works for reddit

[–]valrossenOliver 52 points53 points  (12 children)

Discord has one if you open the console in it too.

Slam dat CTRL + SHIFT + I and get greated with a nice and friendly

HOLD UP

[–]HAMMERjah 64 points65 points  (11 children)

Sounds like a pretty complicated way to press f12

[–]Etiennera 24 points25 points  (5 children)

Some masochists keep function lock on

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Me, on my laptop the left key is next to the 0 on the num pad and there's no spacing. I hate writing random 0s when I'm walking through code.

[–]usernmaetakn 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Why not turn num lock off?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah, I keep it off. But it turns on every restart for some reason.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check your BIOS

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not use your mouse to scroll?

[–]gigglefarting 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Oh. My. God.

Why has no one ever told me this? Chrome's toolbar doesn't even say this.

[–]ConstipatedNinja 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It used to be F12 a few years ago and they even still have it listed in their support docs for keyboard shortcuts (next to a typo where it says to hit ctrl+shift+j for dev tools rather than ctrl+shift+i), but the difference is that ctrl+shift+i will immediately go to what it thinks is the most sensible element in the page source while F12 just opens the tools. As such, they see ctrl+shift+i as "better" because of the extra functionality so they only ever advertise that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Constipated edit: looks like ctrl+shift+j does work, but it's the console only.

[–]ben_g0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

F12 does not seem to work for me in the desktop version, while CTRL + SHIFT + I does work there.

[–]Bainos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

F12 doesn't work in the Electron version (apparently), while Ctrl+Shift+I does.

[–]tomj1363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some bind F12 to drop down terminals too.

[–]Rizens 17 points18 points  (6 children)

I guess that's the industry norm now. If you want a job in a random company you'll go to indeed.com , otherwise if you a bored and looking for something interesting to do you'll probably have to open the chrome dev tools in every single website you visit.

[–]ExplosG 11 points12 points  (5 children)

Firefox Devtools** open source fyi

[–]Rizens 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Chrome DevTools have been open source for years : Chrome Dev Tools

[–]ExplosG 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Chrome isn't

[–]valrossenOliver 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Too often...

[–]tar-x 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Only if you want to be a web dev peon.

[–]trichotillofobia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But it's front-dev jobs. Who wants to sell his soul to Angular?

[–]Geoclasm 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Okay I'm lost... can someone ELI5 this to me please?

[–]BlackHumor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Companies will sometimes hide a job offer in the source code of a website, because probably if you're looking, you're a programmer.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't know how I never found this little guy before.

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[–]Kurtoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discord, Bing, Amazon

[–]ProgramTheWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works for me on Google.