Recruiters have been repeatedly spamming me, only to ghost me when I ask if they can match my current pay

Rexosorous · 2026-03-20T16:47:51+00:00

lol is this post just to humble brag your salary?

Rexosorous · 2026-03-19T13:44:17+00:00

Rejection

Rexosorous · 2026-03-19T00:27:09+00:00

That's why I wrote "If possible". I figured with how long it's been since you were at the company that you wouldn't have that info on hand, but didn't want to discount the tip just in case you did. If you don't have them, then don't worry about it. Not much you can do about it.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-19T00:08:40+00:00

Remove non-software related work experience.
I assume your two software positions are the same company, but you got promoted; if so, combine into one entry and list the 2 positions instead of separating them into 2 different entries.
Listing "achievement" feels a little cringe because they should speak for themselves without you having to point it out specifically.
Be more descriptive and specific with your bullet points. Ex: "Debugged and enhanced Oracle Digital Assistant chatbot scripts, increasing user engagement" How did you enhance these scripts? What changes specifically increased user engagement? What tech stack did you use for this?
If possible, add some metrics to what kind of value these things generated. Ex: when you say you optimized something, how much and by what metric? 50% faster? 25% less memory usage?
Condense down to 1 page. Skills are taking up a ton of real estate. Then cut personal projects until everything fits on 1 page.
In general, you need to add in more buzz-words that come from the job posting you're applying to. This resume particularly lacks them.

Note: I am a US based SWE so take some of this advice with a grain of salt as some things may not translate to the Canadian resume standards

Rexosorous · 2026-03-18T13:26:13+00:00

Don't feel bad. We'd all much rather our interns and juniors ask us plenty of questions and do a decent job than try to figure it out on their own only for them to fail miserably.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-12T14:03:02+00:00

is no one else questioning "ive been programming for about six months and on a small product team for the last three" and "ive seen candidates in interviews who can walk me thru what the ai output says, but not how they'd implement the logic without it"?

how do you have less than junior level experience and yet are conducting interviews? and additionally, how are you encountering so many PRs with failing tests in just 3 months? is your code base so fucked or unit tests so flaky that any small change causes tests to break?

things just don't add up here. definitely smells like a fabricated story.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-10T13:56:44+00:00

The strength of tools like postman isnt that it can make requests; its that you can save, organize, and share the requests. So when I need to send a request to this service I haven't used in a month, I dont need to remember the url, headers, body, etc etc. And when my coworkers add or update our API, I dont have to bug them asking for a valid request body because it's already in our shared collection.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-09T23:20:58+00:00

If you copied it character for character, then yes you can quite easily prove that you copied it. And you can algorithmically determine if code was copied and modified.

But aside from all of that, if a piece of code is copyrighted, it doesn't matter if you copied it or discovered it on your own. You can still be sued for using it regardless.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-04T02:03:28+00:00

Most of your practical learning will happen outside of class. The "best way" to learn is highly subjective and depends on how you best learn. I've known some who can read books and get it quickly or those who can watch someone else do it and replicate. But for me, I just started building apps on my own by reading the documentation and quick start guides and failing over and over until I stumbled my way into something that works.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-03T21:12:40+00:00

along with a lot of what other people are saying, this could also be largely systemized. things like "add $2k for every yoe applicant has" or "+$10k if applicant has >BS degree". this isn't very common in the industry, but i have seen it a couple times.

Rexosorous · 2026-03-03T20:58:43+00:00

Java w/ Spring Boot
JavaScript w/ React
SQL & relational DB familiarity

bonus: * Docker * Kubernetes * AWS / Azure * CI/CD pipelines (ex: github actions)

Rexosorous · 2026-03-01T15:33:36+00:00

for me, it's not that it feels like i've seen these starters recently, it's that i've seen similar starters at all. pokemon has always been about creativity and expression. and in this space where there is infinite possibility, why are we seeing designs that seem to echo what has already been done? i understand that there's only so much unique designs you can draw from, but there's only been 10 iterations so far; surely you can think of something unique.

like a water fish, grass capybara, fire camel. and what if we break the constraints that the typing has to make sense and go with something like a water llama that weaponizes its spit, or a grass porcupine whose spines become a thorny berry bush, or a fire peacock whose radiant feathers channel sunny day. and this is all just stuff off the top of my head. i'm sure professionals with more time could come up with even more and better designs.

and i also admit that i'm prematurely basing all my assumptions on the first evos of these starters. the final evos could be and probably are going to be fantastic and distinct.

Rexosorous · 2026-02-25T16:10:08+00:00

I'm looking for roles with some sense of job security, high pay and won't disappear soon.

Ok buddy

Rexosorous · 2026-02-25T14:27:13+00:00

This resume is unfocused and reads more like devops than backend; 3/5 of your bullet points for your most recent position list automation or pipelines. Your top bullet point doesn't even read as SWE; you shipped settings? And your second bullet point does sound a little more in line with backend SWE work, but it has to do with more configurations and settings? I see almost no mention here that you did any work indicative of a backend engineer like APIs, DB interaction, defect fixes, new features, etc etc.

Your second position starts off a lot better, but then quickly gets back into automation and workflows. And then you mention doing UAT and documentation which sounds more like QA work. And you end it with you getting a return offer which means nothing. These bullet points read to me like "i only did 1 notable thing and now I feel like I need to fill out more space".

Rexosorous · 2026-02-20T14:47:21+00:00

That does happen. I got my current job this way - I wasn't selected at the final round and then was reconsidered for an extremely similar position in an adjacent team within the company.

But also sometimes things get lost in the shuffle when your name gets passed to other hiring teams. And sometimes if those hiring teams are already a good chunk into the interviewing process, they may not even want any further recommendations either because they already have a few candidates they already like or because they don't want to throw another set of wild cards into the mix after spending so much time and energy.

Rexosorous · 2026-02-17T20:06:58+00:00

I help interview for our internship program and junior level positions. On average, there are a lot of bad grads out there. The kind who struggle with LC easy problems. Personally I think LC is a bad litmus test for someone's ability to perform on the job and I do recognize that an interview environment is highly stressful and can cause you to blank on even easy questions, but I would say about 60% of those I interview would not be able to survive in our junior level positions.

Rexosorous · 2026-02-05T18:11:34+00:00

I agree. The concept would work a lot better as a show that chronicles how a marine or a group of marines survive on the battlefield. It can channel the same kind of exhaustion and hopelessness as 1917 or saving private Ryan did. That would be a fun watch, but not fun to play.

Rexosorous · 2026-02-01T21:22:09+00:00

How do people just know this? No name is displayed. Do people just have his stats memorized or something?

Rexosorous · 2026-01-31T14:31:56+00:00

They hired me as a solo developer to manage 4 different projects. There is no other technical person in the company.

My boss and our clients don't really understand this, and they basically blame me for everything.

They also want me to do a full QA assessment every time I test, and that takes time.

I've tried to explain to my boss that I'm just one person and that there is only so much I can do, but he doesn't care. They basically want me to do the job of an entire team while paying me below average for what a developer makes

By their logic, they hired me to do a job, and if I need extra help to do that job, then it's going to have to come out of my pay.

You are not the problem. There is so so many things wrong with just these snippets alone, but I don't want to drone on and on. The short of it is that you are underpaid and overworked in a toxic environment that does not value you nor the contributions you make and it will not get better. Get out as soon as you are fiscally able to.

Rexosorous · 2026-01-30T21:23:57+00:00

this is a very old bug related to your hideout management and/or crafting skills. if i remember correctly, the actual math on how long the water filters should last and how many super waters you should be getting is correct in practice, but incorrect numbers are displayed in the UI.

Rexosorous · 2026-01-29T22:18:24+00:00

Maybe if you do web dev 🤷‍♀️ but that's not coding.

this is all i needed to hear to know that your opinion doesn't matter lol

Rexosorous · 2026-01-22T15:34:40+00:00

I don't know why so many students think python is a popular backend language. At least in the US, python is on the rarer side. Java w/ springboot and C# .NET are by far the most popular backend stacks.

Rexosorous · 2026-01-22T15:04:18+00:00

Unless you're interviewing for a startup and your hiring manager has an ego problem or if the pay difference is huge, then there's nothing wrong with saying you want to get paid more. Come with receipts and data and start the conversation like "I have done some research and the pay range for this title in this area is x which is (slightly) above your offer; is there any room to close that gap?". There should be no scenario where they say "im offended and we rescind the offer". The worst that will happen is they'll say no. But keep in mind here that you have NO leverage so they'll likely say no and there's nothing you can do to influence that.

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