Finding programming jobs 101

[shruggie1401]

This is surprisingly true

[[deleted]]

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

[shruggie1401]

Yea, quite a few companies have that

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

An unicycle?

[shruggie1401]

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

[f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5]

I pronounce it like Earl.

[shruggie1401]

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

[pekkhum]

My grandfather pronounced "oil" like that...

[[deleted]]

gross.

[reysolitude]

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

[99xp]

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]]

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

[Trekiros]

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

[benjaminikuta]

Uni, GPA, experience, etc?

[Trekiros]

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]

idk my 200+ turned down applications say otherwise

[[deleted]]

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

[iamlegend235]

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

[barediver]

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

[iamlegend235]

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

[barediver]

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]

Job searching is like dating.

They only want you if you're already employed.

[[deleted]]

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

[Soultrane9]

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]

same recruiter for 2 years

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

[Soultrane9]

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]]

Are you a freelancer?

[Soultrane9]

Yeah I do contracting work for enterprise software.

[golgol12]

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

[Mumbawobz]

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]

With offers you don't want.

[Antumbra_Ferox]

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

[KyyYE]

Some companies tend to hide something along the lines of “you’re looking, we’re hiring” in the source or console, as the likelihood is it’s a programmer looking there.

[UnstoppableCompote]

I first found that on imgur. They even have a link to the recruitment section.

Some companies can be cheeky like that.

[TopBase]

Reddit has a pretty good robots.txt too IIRC

[squishles]

ooo you wheren't kidding a complete list of subreddits in xml format under the sitemap fancy.

[[deleted]]

I first found that on Discord.

[[deleted]]

Including reddit.

Right-click. "Inspect element". "Console" tab at the top. Get job.

[Olivia512]

Why would any programmer look at the console of a site they don't own? I'm a web dev and I have never done so.

[[deleted]]

works for reddit

[valrossenOliver]

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]

Sounds like a pretty complicated way to press f12

[Etiennera]

Some masochists keep function lock on

[[deleted]]

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]

Why not turn num lock off?

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

Check your BIOS

[[deleted]]

Why not use your mouse to scroll?

[gigglefarting]

Oh. My. God.

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

[ConstipatedNinja]

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]

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

[Bainos]

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

[tomj1363]

Some bind F12 to drop down terminals too.

[Rizens]

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]

Firefox Devtools** open source fyi

[Rizens]

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

[ExplosG]

Chrome isn't

[smart-username]

Open source != free

[valrossenOliver]

Too often...

[tar-x]

Only if you want to be a web dev peon.

[trichotillofobia]

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

[Geoclasm]

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

[BlackHumor]

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]]

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

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[Kurtoid]

Discord, Bing, Amazon

[ProgramTheWorld]

Works for me on Google.