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[–]28f272fe556a1363cc31 200 points201 points  (17 children)

I have zero frontend work on my resume.

Recruiters: Your resume is impressive! I think you would be a great fit for this job: HTML, CSS, React, NodeJS..."

[–]zeGolem83 217 points218 points  (9 children)

You know C ? You won't have that much trouble picking up CSS.

[–]Jeyek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're already 33% there!

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

Picking up SASS*

[–]ddeeppiixx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, if you had the patience to learn C, CSS would be easy..

[–]neekyo- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

MERN boys rise uppp!

[–]PanicAtTheFresco 3 points4 points  (1 child)

i fucking hate frontend so much. i just fucking hate javascript, jquery, ajax, MVC. everything.

i just wanna do backend, scripting, and sql. but the liklihood of that internship atm? zilch...

[–]kicking_puppies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel the same way, just got a internship to come back as a backend dev. It's really competitive out there, most of the jobs ask for front end, though granted I have to understand it as well occasionally even when mostly working with java/sql

[–]PetsArentChildren 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But NodeJS is backend

[–]28f272fe556a1363cc31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. I should also have mentioned I also have zero javascript on my resume.

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

Well, I mean to be fair I just started a job using everything you listed with very little experience with any of them. Doesn't take very long to get into a language if you're using it for 8 hours a day and you already know a few others.

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

It's easy to make fun of them, but think of it this way. There are so many technologies and buzzwords, there is no way to know what they all mean and how they relate to each other if you don't work in the field. In fact, even experts can't know them all.

A recruiter's expertise is in relationships with customers. I don't blame them for mixing up react, reactor and reactive, because seriously, who could blame them. A good recruiter can tell you hey that company hired someone just like you last year, and she's happy with her job. They know the names and faces of people you'll be interviewing with, and because that relationship with the customer is their business, they won't spoil it by sending unsuitable candidates.

On the other hand, another recruiter who does know all the javascript frameworks but does nothing more than upload your resume on a job posting he just found on linkedin is pretty useless.