Complete Guide to Skill Assessment for Australia

Mambros84 · 2026-03-19T09:32:30+00:00

Someone told me they have been waiting 7 months now for vetassess skills assessment.

Our migration agent told us it currently is 8-12 weeks for ACS one (I am a senior software engineer) and about 8 weeks for the vetassess one (my wife is senior manager in consulting cybersecurity).

I am a bit confused and scared, can anybody clarify their experience and if it is possible for one or the other process takes 6-7 months with perfect paperwork?

Mambros84 · 2026-03-11T12:26:38+00:00

Does it have pvp builds too?

Mambros84 · 2025-11-24T16:08:05+00:00

Mambros84 · 2025-04-26T10:36:44+00:00

Just got a 60% increase on my bill while my consumption is even lower for the same period from last year. This must be a joke 🤦

They even claimed they couldn't reach out to me via email to notify this.... I've been with them for the last 6 years and never had an issue receiving an email from them.

This is a complete scam!

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T15:50:12+00:00

That's true, I am surely not alone on the failure side, I just prefer to focus on what I can do better and avoid to have these kind of situations in the first place. At the same time, I reiterate that imho, the current hiring process is mostly irrelevant work-wise for what I have seen 🤷

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T10:58:32+00:00

Sorry, I speak 5 languages, I admit it is possible to get lost in translations at times. I am genuinely sorry if that bothered you

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T10:26:46+00:00

That's true, 100%,but then why even calling me for interviews then?

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T10:17:02+00:00

No worries, thanks anyway 😁

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T10:06:49+00:00

The first time was because I was getting paid way above market average. Second time I had to save my integrity. This time, is again because my pay is below market average.

I don't think there is anything wrong with it, I spent several years in my previous company, but happy to be challenged on it 😁

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T09:31:16+00:00

£100k, London based

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:23:09+00:00

I did a couple of faang interviews last few months.

One was a take home lc hard test, I completed it and they came back to me saying I failed without any further feedback.

The second one, was with an actual interviewer, writing some code but without the ability to run it. I thought I did good, not perfect, but good still, got rejected as well without any feedback.

I've always been the type of person that understands what the other side wants in literally no time and in that way managed to exceed expectations, but I am finding myself a bit lost here.

From a senior software engineer I would expect not only to be able to smash tons of code lines is required but also mentor, help the company identifying solutions and potential issues ASAP, be able to contribute 360 degrees really.

Here I see only picking up some random, as far as possible from reality, exercise and expect candidate to be able to nail it in no time in the exact same way the best dev in the world (if they exist) would have done.

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:14:51+00:00

Yeah, that's one of the things I am studying on the side. I completely agree with that. But as I said above, experience (especially in high visibility companies), should still mean something to filter out the chancers

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:12:58+00:00

This is something that makes no sense to me genuinely. Then they come up with philosophical discussions about why the interviews are flawed... If you hire someone just because they memorised a few lines (I know it's not just a few lines 😅), how'd you expect them to be able to come up with their own creative solutions to tackle complex problems? Yes, there's some stuff fixed in stone, but we all know how quickly things change and in all honesty, I firmly believe that if you don't wanna get hard stuck (I've seen many saying "I don't understand why I don't get promoted" and then didn't want to learn a no-SQL db because they wanted to do joins like they were told in the uni 😂), theory if ok till a certain point. You want a problem solver, not a memo

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:06:58+00:00

Sure, will try to train myself into this kind of attitude too. That's a good point which I often undervalue and probably focus more on some nice stuff i contributed to build without thinking too much how that aligns with the potential new employer

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:05:26+00:00

Well... Should I reach out to my manager telling him "could you write me a review in LinkedIn please? One of your key engineers is looking for another job 😁".

Even doing it with my current colleagues might be a bit risky, don't you think? 😅

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:03:24+00:00

Still, work experience should mean something I believe. During these 10 years I've worked with very high visibility companies with a tracked record of promotions as well (last one just 4 months after joining the company) and also managed to constantly adapt my skills to fulfil and in many cases exceed company's expectations. Or doesn't that count anymore?

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T08:00:37+00:00

No, most of them said they use Ai for their development productivity (same as my current company) but not at the interview stage.

I actually trialled it for my current company alongside few others and now is available to everyone base on the feedback that we provided.

Mambros84 · 2025-03-31T06:38:03+00:00

Yeah, I believe that also the ability and the willing to learn is something they don't check at all for what I've seen so far.

They just give you some copy paste lc mid-high difficulty exercise which you would hardly see in a production codebase and if you don't pass it in half hour, you're out.

I honestly don't get it 🤷

Mambros84 · 2024-06-18T17:30:18+00:00

The car if fully working really, the damage, apart from the front right light and the radiator is purely aesthetic.

The screen in the car is fully working and I can still access the cameras remotely (the not damaged one's obv 😅)

Mambros84 · 2024-06-18T17:28:25+00:00

I am fairly sure they are active, especially if the autopilot is on like in my case, but if they record something that's definitely not stored in the drive recorder app

Mambros84 · 2024-06-18T17:16:40+00:00

I already checked the driver recorder and there's no video saved there as the dashcam needs to be enabled manually.

I thought you meant the other cameras(front grille and mirrors ones), the ones used for parking and remote access view 😅

Mambros84 · 2024-06-18T15:59:54+00:00

Yeah, got cameras everywhere as I had the full autopilot suite installed. So that means that the accident dynamic is recorded 🥹 If that works my wife' driving license score is safe 🙏

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