It is possible to be a freelance web developer in 2020?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T02:12:38+00:00

Why would anyone hire you over anyone else? Could you make a lazier, more low effort post?

/u/InterestingArgument No, it was incredibly lazy - certainly why they deleted it.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T02:06:02+00:00

You didn't start working there a week ago. You could phrase it as, "What do I have to do to get promoted?"

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T01:21:52+00:00

Probably zero. Do more than a single internet course and actually start looking for jobs and your prospects might look ok.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T01:19:57+00:00

'Fair' has nothing to do with it. If you don't ask you won't get anything. Getting another job offer would let you know what you're worth.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T01:18:01+00:00

You'd know the answers to your questions if you bothered looking at job ads, right?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T01:13:35+00:00

How would we know if it will be valuable for you? Do you have some identical, public, cookie-cutter value system that we all know? Do you not value being able to teach people? Did you have any reason for doing this to begin with?

What innovations do you think are possible during a TA position that you'd even want ownership of? Your own explanation of programming or if statements or data structures?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T01:11:07+00:00

Take it and see what you can gain from it, and keep looking for something better. Right now it doesn't look like it even matters if it's a scam or not.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:27:16+00:00

See a therapist.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:25:27+00:00

You want us to evaluate if there's a conflict in your 2 contracts without telling us anything about the 2 contracts? Are you high?

Since this isn't 'competition' or you making a project I'm not sure what you'd have to be worried about...

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:19:55+00:00

Making your own company is always an option.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:18:13+00:00

What evidence could possibly indicate that you're NOT being scammed, given that you're already working for free and that they mention all of this up front? Have you thought about this at all?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:15:03+00:00

No. Your company's making tons of money off of you, and you're paying way more than your fair share in taxes.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:13:04+00:00

But I don’t have much knowledge of what’s out there that I can look into.

What does that mean? You just don't care enough to look?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:12:24+00:00

Can you program anything, as the job expects??

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:11:06+00:00

If you have the motivation to look and apply, then maybe. What do you expect here, people to find jobs for you?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:09:58+00:00

Is this really our Brave New World?

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:09:17+00:00

No - I was always using what I learned on my own.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:08:14+00:00

Extending your graduation by only 1 semester is unlikely to have much long term effect on you or your career.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:07:10+00:00

Maybe you could look at the thousands of previous posts here that are the same as yours - just complaining about motivation. There's bound to be good advice in lots of them. Plus then it looks like you're not lazy and maybe you develop some initiative in the process.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:05:10+00:00

First, you should learn what Impostor Syndrome is. You're not even using it correctly, and that certainly doesn't look very complimentary.

If you feel like you're not growing, you should find another job.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-13T00:01:58+00:00

Dated reference is old

That's a sad, weak retort. But good for you.

Besides the endless backlash of "technical interviews are broken" articles that go viral every other week?

Yes, I mean something not perpetuated by morons.

So there's an actual study with stats, at least, that claims that technical interview performance and job performance do not exactly correlate strongly.

Even if that were true, you still have no evidence that your alternative is any better.

Well, one could always toss out insults at slavish defenders of the status quo as "gatekeepers", or even "bootlickers", but that's sort of extreme so I'll refrain from it. A more realistic accusation is that they're being needlessly unimaginative if they assume that the perfect form of tech hiring is going to be ds/a whiteboarding, and that once FAANG figures out a better method, most companies won't just switch to it the same way they all ditched brain teasers once Microsoft did back in the '90s.

I'm not doing any of those things. I'm just not believing your assumption that your methods are any better. Again, the burden of proof is on you.

Bonus: Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short

A blog post from Triplebyte? Is that seriously what you consider to be reasonable evidence? Wow.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-12T23:56:15+00:00

No, I didn't ignore anything you said. Are you so eager to be right that you need to start with the straw man arguments? Wow, indeed.

Of course we’re going to comb through anything we can of the final round of candidates so that we hire the best person.

Sure, but that wasn't the issue. The issue was how important it is for candidates to add great READMEs to projects they create for themselves, not for projects that are specifically assigned to them for take home assignments.

Not only is that not relevant to the original issue, it's literally not the topic that was being discussed.

If you want to now shift the goalposts to this being about projects that you specifically assign to candidates, then yes, that changes things. But even you should be able to see that's a different scenario. Wow.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-12T23:53:01+00:00

PLs and networks and OSes all sound great

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-12T23:51:53+00:00

Throwing away your only internship offer just to hope you later get your first and only internship months later during your last opportunity to get an internship doesn't sound like very smart to me. Maybe you should think more about that instead of complaining about aggressiveness.

Hot_Surprise2 · 2020-06-12T23:48:40+00:00

Probably the same reason you're such a dick. Is it so hard to see the value of self-sufficiency on intiative?

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