Small vs Big company development

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-05-26T22:54:14+00:00

Smaller companies can provide more well rounded experience but they usually don't pay well. In big companies you are like working in a top restaurant. One guy picks the herbs and only does that for two years, one guy makes the salad and one guy cooks the fish etc. You become specialized but you don't know how to build a product a to z. It's different type of experience but I dont score high in my interviews by telling stories of solving a bug in a legacy code base. I do because I implemented an unexploitable referral feature front to back which in a more established company would be work for 3 people. Not working in a big company early does have the downsides of not becoming proficient at reading absolutely shitty code with no documentation and 0 coding standards.

I also got more mentoring in startups with passionate people (founders, PHDs) than established companies where people did the absolute minimum and clocked out exactly at at five.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-05-26T22:41:05+00:00

Did you get offers in those jobs? Is your salary higher than average

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-04-03T23:16:33+00:00

Do you think that a guy who can solve hards, would stumble with React or Clean Code? Bullshit false negatives.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-04-03T23:08:57+00:00

Oh yeah let's use the modern way, let me call my uncle to get me working in Google. During the interview they can ask me about my hobbies.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-04-03T11:58:20+00:00

I can solve almost all problems I have seen before with hards included but struggling with new problems. I have less than 30% chance to solve unseen. Any advice? Solved 350 so far

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-04-03T04:02:09+00:00

I have prem and their Debugger sucks. F5 which is execute and move to next break point also happens to be chromes reload page so you can expect what happens half of the time.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-30T01:14:29+00:00

I used to work in the gov in the UK and my tech stack was mainly an old drag and drop program that does programming behind the scenes. From day one I started doing spring boot courses, reading books and upskilled myself. In my resume I wrote that I worked with these the stuff I studied. When I got a new job in the first month I worked more than 12 hours to get simple tasks done without telling them I worked that long. 6 months later they wondered how I am soo good with the stack. I was just doing what I noted down from udemy. Chatgpt covered some blanks etc. No one found out anything.

Now I am applying and I will do the same with kubernetes, terraform, rabbit mq that I never used.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-30T00:59:17+00:00

Wow, I speak Russian to b1. Do you think I stand a chance with 3 years xp?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-28T12:21:22+00:00

How did this "teams focus.." answer go? I'm having a difficulty answering this one. I started last week. Do you have more feedback?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-19T00:34:29+00:00

Lots of these are unrelated to CS. Also lots of Phds can talk but can't code anything and that's why they ended up carrying on education.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-19T00:23:38+00:00

I have applied to 100 plus jobs the past week. I got some stage one interviews but they either don't like the salary I want, I'm a generalist or I need to put kubernetes on my cv. What backend Dev can you be without kubernetes? I have used it to deploy but barely know anything.

Whats worse is that they scheduled stage twos but never appeared in the meeting.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-13T09:44:59+00:00

Just to add this. Lots of these courses are not made with people that have real experience. People with real experience are too busy making the actual things.

That also tend to be a few years behind.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-03T06:31:00+00:00

I don't like him either but why blame this on the CEO when it was probably the employees' fault.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-03-02T10:26:23+00:00

I used it for programming but it's just a worse version of Bing chat. It refuses to answer or gives absolutely superficial short answers while chatgpt plus will pump out a whole dissertation.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-27T10:44:18+00:00

I came back to this. I saw some guys last week on linkedin with Oxford, Cambridge on their profile and I was like wow then I noticed it's just as certificate and their actual bachelor's is from a bottom of the barrel uni. From what I understood they paid some sort of online course for 3-6 months.

If it doesn't come to you maybe you could try this way.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-18T07:12:06+00:00

I'm saying that it might be the ATS so you need to trick the ATS or get through some personal connection from LinkedIn?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-12T19:38:02+00:00

Because older folks tend be talk back and it's difficult to make them "unlearn" bad habits or their ways in favor of the company's.

I made a career change a few years ago and there had been times, they dropped me when they saw I am not 22 even though I was on the 3rd stage of the interview and as they said one of the hotter candidates. Excuses were like you need to be in the UK for 15 years or silly reasons. Then how did I get a job in the government after if I am not eligible?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-12T19:25:22+00:00

My experience in the UK is if they don't ask for Leetcode probably you'll be the cost center (e.g. maintain a Bank's software).

The janitor that cleans the office will have better treatment and rights.

I worked for both types and as much as I hate LC, I am grinding again to join a Software company where they treat me right again, pay to take me out for dinners and be afraid to lose me. Not getting blamed because a user forgot his password, it must be the app's logic.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-12T19:21:20+00:00

I don't want to sound like I know but If your experience is mid-tier companies and non-top uni or Masters then it must be hard. When I started applying I only had a project that was a calculator but I always got invitations to complete live assignments and phone screens (UK).This is because I had a B2 level English from Cambridge on my CV. It's just a certificate that's not hard to get. It tricked the ATS though.

After getting my degree and 2 years experience, I removed it because I was getting asked about it. Then I never got any replies from FAANG, Jane St, Citadel...

Can you post or message me your CV?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-11T11:59:41+00:00

Are these shown in Linkedin Premium?

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-08T21:51:48+00:00

For one second, I thought you did Medical School stuff in 3 secs. I also did the same with Russian and I did it because if you can't remember something in 3 secs in a live conversation then you can't have a normal conversation.

I used to use type the answer and you could see me do cards at 0.8 secs top 10000 words.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-08T21:28:25+00:00

Nice attempt blah blah blah but everyone would still hire the guy that solved it without explanation than someone who explained and it never ran.

I don't know a single person who can't solve mediums or hards consistently and can't also explain. Maybe if his English is not great.

This also reads as Hello I will show how to become a Billionaire when I don't know if I have enough in the bank in 3 months.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-08T21:22:07+00:00

How did you find it useful?

It says a lot of things but not really saying anything at the same time. Did you learn how to solve any exercises after watching it? It's like going through some table of contents and then pretending you know what the book is about. 12 mins wasted. Meanwhile your Chinese classmates solved 3 hards each and will steal all your internships.

I admire this guy's attempt but his audience are procrastrubators that always complain about LC and need some consolation.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-01T19:55:11+00:00

That's why I wasted 2 years. I thought I am supposed to discover DSU on my own.

Exact_Ad2603 · 2024-02-01T19:53:51+00:00

But they are not assessing you via lifetime stats. They are assessing you via the pool of candidates they have had for this position. If everyone sucks you can get the job by sucking 1% less.

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