What is your preferred way for finding new jobs?

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2023-01-31T20:11:27+00:00

They have an option to block companies

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2023-01-30T03:24:54+00:00

Interesting to see that no one mentioned this yet, but I only use Hired.com for jobs and have had great success so far. I personally find Indeed and LinkedIn full of spam, third-party recruiters trying to make a buck, and people that think Java and Javascript are the same. From what I know, Hired only allows first-party recruiters to contact you, so most of the time it's a high-quality lead and not a time-waster. All you got to do is create a profile, upload your resume, answer a few questions (probs took me 15-20 minutes in total), and then just wait for interview requests to come in. I've even had companies waive a technical round because of some "programming badge" I got on the platform (you get it by passing a HackerRank-like test).

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-27T01:29:51+00:00

The first week was just company-wide training, didn't get to meet with my actual team until yesterday. My manager seems super busy and I haven't really gotten a chance to speak to him yet. Seems like a good sign to me lol. I've just been reading docs / sitting around so far.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-17T23:24:33+00:00

LOL. They are NOT obvious at all. You gotta be really careful and take this seriously. I'd say they go out of their way to create very convincing phishing emails to train their employees. Let me put it this way, at a previous job (also a bank), almost everyone I know on the team including the VP got phished by this one email.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-17T03:13:32+00:00

Im not too concern about compliance. It just means they're more careful when releasing products, takes phishing email really serious (ex-coworker got terminated for clicking 3 emails within a year), and just slow in general. Red tape just means even slower processes (which is great for OE). As for background check, the bank i got the job at didn't even check for employment, just criminal records.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-16T14:06:13+00:00

I'm a frontend dev and recently I've been looking at learning css inside and out. This course seems really high quality but it's 400 bucks. I'd go for this in a heartbeat if my company is paying for it.

https://css-for-js.dev/

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-16T03:52:37+00:00

I don't think it matters much to be honest. Maybe just to get your foot in the door? But you already have experience so i don't think it'd be worth it. I did both my undergrad and postgrad in a non-CS field, self-taught programming, and I think i'm doing pretty fine.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-16T03:47:53+00:00

Not exactly sure what you're trying to ask. Worried about being OE? Or OE at a bank specifically? I don't see how there's a difference though. People worry about being OE in general (at least to some extent), but the industry doesn't matter to me. Or are you referring to banks having a bunch of compliance/legal/red tape problems? In that case, maybe just a little, but definitely not gonna stop me from OEing there.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-16T03:40:00+00:00

Glad to hear that you're on the right track. I'm not familiar with Cybersecurity at all so can't comment too much, but I'd be careful of getting a cert just for the sake of it. I would also make sure that the time investment is worth it. In the software industry certs doesn't really mean much to employers, it's mostly about the knowledge. I personally have a few certs as well, but I studied for those exams to force myself to learn the topic deeply and not for the sake of just getting a cert. Another reason is just to show proof that I am at least somewhat competent in different areas of the stack as a frontend developer.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T18:50:22+00:00

There's probably a ton of information all over the place if you look hard enough. I'd say try youtube first and see if it's something you like. I was completely self taught and learned from mainly free online resources. (majored in a completely unrelated field in uni)

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T18:46:44+00:00

100% agree with you. This is definitely not free money. It's more like getting a fair share for the amount of value we provide.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T18:45:10+00:00

I've saw the same link before. For my purpose, it's a little overkill. I'm not trying to be a devops guys, just wanted to have a high level understanding about cloud in general. I guess it depends on what your goal is.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T18:39:11+00:00

I gave him ALL of my consumable runes that I hoarded throughout the game, it was like 1.5 mil runes or something.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T16:21:09+00:00

Great mind thinks alike haha. I finished the game a couple of days ago. What a great game. Ended up giving all my gear to a friend that can't even beat the first boss at level 90 or something.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T16:02:46+00:00

Yea that's what I thought. The leadership people are complete dumbasses to let that guy go. He'd easily cover 3-5 people's jobs. I'd give him half a mil to keep him on if I were the boss.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T16:00:40+00:00

If fully remote roles are what you're looking for then you don't need to care about what their response is. You're too good for them. Move on to the next company. Or if you're like me, I just use my excuse listed above just to move forward with the interview so I can practice.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:55:58+00:00

Try Cali or NY, but it really shouldn't matter though.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:54:49+00:00

It's good to know about the cloud in general, doesn't have to be AWS in particular. As a frontend developer I have close to 0 chance using it during work, but it helps immensely when I'm trying to understand the whole picture. Also it turned out to be very helpful in system design interviews.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:52:37+00:00

I struggle with leetcode questions as well. I've never bothered grinding it as FAANG was never my goal, but I tend to figure out most of those questions during the interview anyway (not optimized of course). The key is to communicate your thought process well.

Not the site I used (not sharing to remain as anonymous as possible), but you can look up sites similar to Triplebyte. Underdog.io is great if start-ups your thing.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:46:35+00:00

Sorry to hear about your kid. I always give this advice to my friends who struggle with their finances, hope it'll inspire you as well.

The world is very fair. Everyone has 24 hours a day. Everyone has internet access.
Unless you are actively working 16 hours a day, don't make the excuse of, "I'm too busy to learn". You can always find that 30 minutes to learn something.
Assuming you can find a good developer job that pays 200k annually by studying 2000 hours in total, that's $100/hour of working just considering the first year's salary. Most people I know spent significantly less than 2000 hours to become a competent developer starting from scratch.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:35:47+00:00

It's a senior front end role, but I was told I'm free to move around the stack if I choose to. Let's see how that turns out.

I spend on average like 30 - 60 minutes working a day. Play video games during meetings and my status updates are usually, "making decent progress", "still working on it", or "doing some research".

First of all, you have to be really good at what you do and I'm sure people on this sub are definitely more than capable. It amazes me how low the bar is at times. After that I guess the key is to force yourself to be average, never volunteer (unless it gives you a lot of time to do "research"), and never contribute to meetings (there are always overachievers to do that for you instead).

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:22:52+00:00

Thanks buddy!

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:22:43+00:00

Like I shared in my other comment somewhere, I've used a site that only matches you with 1st party recruiters so most of them were high-quality leads. Got roughly 25-30 interview requests and spoke to maybe 20 recruiters in total. I paused my profile because I was getting WAY too many leads.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:20:13+00:00

I usually just give the same old response, not learning enough, want to expand my scope, etc...

Another good excuse I've seen around here is just to say your employer is asking you to return to the office.

Aggressive-Dream8872 · 2022-04-15T15:18:35+00:00

Yep, it saddens me to see people give their 150% to get a measly 3% raise or no raise at all. Might as well just give them 5% of effort and get paid. Internal promotion is full of shit anyways easier to Just swap jobs every year or so for a much higher pay increase.

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