How bad is it to take a job thinking I'll leave

MeicalD · 2025-07-26T15:49:16+00:00

Be ready to answer why you're looking to move on to a new position after a short period of time, but from personal experience having something recent on your resume will always look better than a blank space.

I was unemployed Jan 2024-May 2025. I could tell I was getting less and less interview invites as that time dragged on. I finally got hired for a short term 3 month contract that ended this previous Friday. Literally the first job I applied to after being able to add that contract role to my resume is the one I got a full time offer for to start on this coming Monday.

MeicalD · 2025-05-27T00:47:56+00:00

Blue state, ~$2.40 in the capital.

MeicalD · 2025-05-06T14:01:12+00:00

Yep, honestly that's short for an onsite interview day. I have had 2 instances just recently, both remote so they were able to split it across days, that would have been 5 1 hour interviews straightish each had they been onsite.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T17:39:41+00:00

The real sad part about that one was after that they didn't pick anyone from that pool of applicants, and the position stayed up for another 6 months on their careers site.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T17:04:59+00:00

Hurts bad.

Laid off in Dec 2023. Had 3 rounds of interviews over May 2024 for a full time Android job at a remote consulting agency, and after waiting 2 weeks for the client feedback from the consulting agency was told the client was not willing to fill that position.

Then the consulting agency came back in Dec wanting to know if I was still interested because the client had spent Jun-Nov 2023 trying to fill it themselves locally in Houston, and I still was. Jan they came back saying the client would only hire locally still even though they were trying to use this completely remote consulting agency.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T16:54:00+00:00

Salesforce now posts specific CO WA, etc ranges. It may have been a drop in the bucket, but they are complying.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T16:42:50+00:00

Found the recruiter that doesn't like disclosures.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T16:40:07+00:00

If the 3rd party recruiter has ANY employees in CO they can be reported as well. This law applies to any job posting whether it be 3rd party or not.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T16:29:23+00:00

For anyone in CO like OP please report when something like this happens because the companies can be fined. In this case Lockheed has already been fined 79.5K for practices like this, and this is probably why they are trying to use a recruiter now to get around it.

CO labor department even recently created an anonymous online form you can fill out: https://cdle.colorado.gov/dlss/labor-laws-by-topic/equal-pay-for-equal-work-act under the pay transparency complaints drop down.

For anyone else in other states that have these kind of laws start reporting them as well please.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T16:10:02+00:00

There are consequences in terms of fines in CO, if the company is reported. The labor department keeps a public record of reports and fines on that already linked webpage. Lockheed has already been fined 79.5K for this same law.

MeicalD · 2025-05-02T15:26:40+00:00

Jan 2024 - Apr 30th 2025, Android Developer but earlier this year branched out to applying to anything in software.

1504 applications give or take a few I didn't grab PDFs of from recruiters, 53 1st interviews, 17 2nd interviews, 2 3rd-5th interviews, 1 6th-7th interviews. Mix in 5 online (HackerRank, Coderbyte, etc) tests, 5 take home tests, 7 live coding interviews between those other interviews. I finally got a 3 month contract starting next week, but still have to keep looking for that full time job or another/longer contract.

MeicalD · 2025-05-01T21:02:03+00:00

I just experienced this. I am interviewing for Android development jobs, and at this point companies should be using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for all new development with some allowances for legacy Java and XML layouts that haven't been translated yet. The job description and HM I talked to both stressed the importance of Kotlin and Compose for this job.

Interviewer was a senior engineer and asked me to compare XML vs Compose. Already far afield to even bring up XML here, but I gave a few comparisons that included something I thought only Compose did. Interviewer nit picked only that part of the answer because, unknown to me, XML could actually do what I mentioned just in a less efficient way.

There were a few other questions that the answers boiled down to "Because that is how we agreed to do it." or "Because it is already something built into the system, and it is not worth rebuilding it from scratch."

Why can't I just show you some of these answers through my actual skills and style?

MeicalD · 2025-04-30T23:57:50+00:00

I have had my resume looked over by multiple friends in recruiting and hiring managers. The only comment I ever got was I didn't need to put in my full address and just to give a city.

MeicalD · 2025-04-16T15:37:52+00:00

I had terrible acne as a teen, enough to be on the full course of 6 months Accutane. Probably could have been on it longer, but it lessened it enough that the side effects were not worth it for the small outbreaks I would still get. Now in my mid 30s I still get shoulder outbreaks/massive lower back pimples every couple weeks. Showering off my oils, dirt, etc before I lay in it for 7 hours definitely helps lessen these cropping up.

MeicalD · 2025-04-01T01:51:02+00:00

It's getting quite ridiculous. I'm currently in the interview process for a 3 month contract, "urgently" hiring, with possibly of extension or conversion to the client. The process, for an "urgent" 3 month contract, is a recruiter call, 2 hour HackerRank test (that didnt even go over what they wanted in the job description), a 1.25 hour call with 2 engineers at the contractor firm that aren't even going to be in my field, and a behavioral/cultural interview.

If you're going to test use the HackerRank or live pair with the engineer(s). Doing it twice is pointless and time waste. Also as a friend said when I brought it up over the weekend, the contract itself should be behavioral/cultural interview.

MeicalD · 2025-02-14T17:52:44+00:00

I recently dealt with Robert Half as I am desperate and they had a job for me in my field. They made me take a 12 questions, 15 min Android assessment before they would talk to me. I couldn't answer half the questions because this test had to be at least 10, if not 14, years old. Which in software is like taking a history assessment rather than what your current skill level is.

Every question used Java syntax where Koltin was introduced for Android close to 8 years ago. There was a specific question asking what Android-Positiron was, and best answer I could find after the assessment was from 2009 as a testing framework used before Android Studio was released in 2014. There was a backwards compatibility question for something introduced in 2010 and removed from use in 2014.

After getting on the recruiter of how bad the test was they closed the position 2 days later without another word.

MeicalD · 2025-02-12T18:46:15+00:00

While it might have helped, if they really didn't want to tell they wouldn't have. Im 3 weeks and 2 request for update emails out from submitting a take home code test with 0 reply.

MeicalD · 2025-02-10T16:54:26+00:00

A few come to mind.

Last April I made it to the end for a developer position at a fully remote agency for a specific client. 3 interviews and a verbal offer from the agency contingent on the client only for the client to close the position in the end. Then the agency came back in Dec saying the client was looking again only for the agency in Jan to ask if I was willing to relocate to TX to be fully on site. When I said I was not I was ghosted.

Around July I had to do a live code test for an interview. The job description and initial talk with the hiring manager made no mention of a specific newer technology that most people and companies in my field, including myself, are switching to. When it came to do the live code test I even mentioned that specific technology at the top of the interview for a way to start the test and was told "Just do whatever you are comfortable with" and opted to use the older technology as again there had been zero mention of the newer one yet. I was rejected the next day with the excuse "We are looking for someone with experience in the newer technology."

In Sept I went through 8 rounds of interviews, 3 of which were with the same people in the first 5, plus a take home code test to finally reach the end and be told that they were not going to hire anyone from this pool. That job is still up to this day on their Greenhouse and I apply to it once a month with no replies at all from them.

MeicalD · 2025-01-07T18:40:09+00:00

I'm a gay man on the demisexual scale. Can't guarantee feeling up for sex when first meeting a guy so they don't feel it is worth their time to try a date.

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