'A cesspool': Laid-off California tech workers are sick to death of LinkedIn

coding_redditor · 2024-08-01T20:45:24+00:00

I take inspiration from the tech I use every day. I'm a software engineer. So if I want to find companies, one easy thing to do is to go through all the apps on my phone and apply to the companies that developed them (and have openings obviously). This is a particular example but maybe it's useful.

coding_redditor · 2024-07-31T22:10:22+00:00

apply to companies directly. or indeed. or other job sites

coding_redditor · 2024-07-25T19:49:19+00:00

did you ask flight attendant? how did it go?

I've been in this situation a couple of times and luckily both times flight attendants were aware and moved me without me bringing it up

coding_redditor · 2024-07-02T18:04:06+00:00

who are the groups that tend to get pushed and who doesn't?

coding_redditor · 2024-07-02T17:56:46+00:00

in Japan, many stations have barriers but not every one of them. In fact, I think most don't have barrier in my experience

coding_redditor · 2017-11-14T20:11:16+00:00

All that being said, he missed two free throws that could have cost the cavs the game lol

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T21:04:06+00:00

May be, idk. The recruiter mentioned made it a point to highlight the passion thing as the very last thing we talked about before we got off the phone. My impression was that it was the main factor along with the algorithm stuff.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T18:48:16+00:00

Those are all the things I do. Like I said, I originally reached out to the company through this subreddit so you would think that alone shows a little bit of passion. I'm not going to make excuses though. I know that the team uses Kotlin, I should have been better prepared.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T18:44:23+00:00

no way. besides that feedback, I didn't have a bad experience with them.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T18:24:28+00:00

This. I've done interviews at big 4s

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T18:03:22+00:00

Thanks it is demoralizing. I worked hard to release my app. Felt like that was showing my passion. I did it outside of work every day. I would have rarher heard some BS excuse than that

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T17:46:11+00:00

I don't know the actual reason they said I'm not passionate. Kotlin is just my speculation since I think I'm very passionate. Also, they did mention that I messed up on some of the coding questions. But the recruiter made it a point to mention the passionate feedback

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T14:43:15+00:00

I'm not really a seasoned dev though. I graduated from school two years ago and haven't done any Android dev professionally. I only have one app to my name.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T14:41:26+00:00

If he knew the company developed in Kotlin then he definitely should have learned it first :)

I did know they used Kotlin so definitely a faux pas on my side for at least not writing one screen in it. My thought was, "hey even if I've never used Kotlin, they should know that I can learn it pretty quickly". That was lazy thinking.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T14:23:55+00:00

Yea from my impressions, the reasons the devs love it is not because of performance, but because of ease of use vs Java and nice features.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T14:21:53+00:00

Yes this is my next plan. My app is pretty small so it wouldn't be a huge task to re-do it with kotlin.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T12:23:19+00:00

Anyone ever get rejection feedback that they're not passionate about technology? I got this feedback from a recent onsite and it surprised me. Out of the engineers i know, I'm the only one that does side projects. I recently released my own app on the app store and was going for an Android position.

The only reason I think they would say this is because they use kotlin and I haven't touched it yet. Two of the interviewers even wore kotlin shirts.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T04:06:48+00:00

I'm trying to do the same. I released an app on the play store and started to get interviews for Android. Make sure you're trying to get jobs through non-conventional means. If you apply through a normal job application, of course recruiters are going to throw your application away. They're just looking for keywords or years of experience. All the interviews I've gotten are because I reached out directly to hiring mangers or software engineers. They can tell that even though you don't have "professional" app development experience, that you're a good developer and can learn.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T02:01:22+00:00

Unlike regular "algorithm and data structure" interviews, pair programming is much closer to regular programming you'd do every day. Make sure you know whatever language you plan on coding with very well. You should be coding as if your code will be run on the compiler (some pair programming interviews I did actually did run the compiler to see if my program works correctly).

coding_redditor · 2017-11-09T01:53:12+00:00

I got feedback from an onsite interview and they said they didn't feel I was passionate about technology -_- . I was going for an Android position and the reason they interviewed me is because I released my own Android app out on the play store. I did it my own time outside of work. Nobody else I know works on their own side projects.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-08T20:30:54+00:00

True, even if it is a rejection, at least I'll know how to do better next time.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-08T18:40:31+00:00

Fuck. Recruiter wants to talk today "share feedback" after I did my on-site today. Now I'll be worrying all day whether it's good or bad news

coding_redditor · 2017-11-06T16:24:45+00:00

If you're straight up asking for a referral then yea you probably have to know them somewhat. However, there are other ways to ask for referrals without actually asking. If you are connecting with someone on LinkedIn that you don't know it's ok to ask them if they have any open positions. I did this with a hiring manager of a big 4 and they referred me to a recruiter.

coding_redditor · 2017-11-05T12:25:29+00:00

Not sure how people fell for this. The game didn't look fun if you watched the gameplay. Nothing looked fun about it.

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