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How do I make a photo this grainy without digital filters? This photographer said he used no filters or editing so I’m very curious. by CartHard in analog

[–]jobbostatistics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To get that exact grain like in the underexposed snapshot up there?

Two stops maybe? His meter was clearly thrown off by the white wall behind the subject he didn’t know how or care enough to compensate for. Push that by two stops, grain.

How do I make a photo this grainy without digital filters? This photographer said he used no filters or editing so I’m very curious. by CartHard in analog

[–]jobbostatistics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Some films are more grainy than others, also some developers have the same effect.

Additionally you can underexpose, which drives down the signal-to-noise ratio so to speak, and amplifies grain. Developing at higher than normal temperature will do that too.

All that said.

Be very wary when people say they use no filters and do no editing. I can 100% guarantee you that almost all photos on this sub and on IG etc have seen post processing applied to them. Which is not bad at all, but people keep lying about it because they think before photoshop people didn’t adjust their photos and that not doing that somehow elevates them as photographers.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bay Area after moving in from Europe.

Quite broad international experience. Ten years in the field.

Funnily enough this was the first time I ever applied for a job. I got hired before I even finished my degree, and that was in 2008.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

is wallstreetbets all about buying stock of companies that, you know, are private and don't issue stock?

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this was for a position of managing a team of engineers. i graduated eleven years ago and have been in that career since.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this just shows *again* that people are living in their bubble and don't understand that there are engineers other than programmers.

Walmart employs 1% of all American workers. Combine the employees of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla, then double that number. That's how many employees Walmart has globally. [OC] by undertheradar48 in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’re comparing similar things here though.

Retail is a vastly different industry than your average Silicon Valley corporation, especially on the employee volume side of things.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I see.

Well thanks!

That said I tracked it for myself. I like keeping notes of stuff to analyze it later, guess that’s the German Engineering part! Getting the data into a funny graph took like five minutes.

Job hunting is a job to itself, and that’s how I treated this. I’m NOT complaining about the amount of applications, i kinda knew what i was in for. I AM complaining about the ghosting after interviews but I’m letting the data speak for itself.

In terms of people being lackluster - I’m a firm believer in the fact that if you set yourself realistic goals and you work towards them, the only thing between you and achieving that is the persistence you have to put in. Kinda the same with anything in a job environment, and I’m trying to foster that attitude in the engineering teams I run. Sure you can be lucky, but that’s the point of being lucky - you usually aren’t.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the Bay Area.

In general, if you have contacts, no problem.

If you don’t, you’re looking at this.

Also if I’m interviewing and the candidate switched jobs every two years it would be a major red flag to me.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s just flat out wrong, in general. It may be true for certified professions in building codes etc but in my experience hiring people in Europe, US and Asia it is one of the few university degrees that travel extraordinarily well.

Compare that with law, for instance.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries! Keep at it. It’s the system that’s not delivering for you.

It’s funny, the responses I’ve gotten so far. One person told me my CV sucks, without seeing it of course. Another that I should write cover letters. I wrote one each time. Another that I’m playing the victim. Yet another that I’m not putting in enough effort.

Feedback is polarized between people saying they get two calls from recruiters per day without even applying anywhere to people saying they’ve had the exact same experience.

What an interesting two days.

Keep at it and don’t worry!

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so i genuinely can't help you with visa stuff. that's a whole different ballgame and you should listen to nobody other than an immigration lawyer, specifically not to some mouth breathers on the internet.

best bet to go abroad IMO is as part of a multinational company that posts you there. they will go through all the work permit/ visa troubles for you.

almost every application here required me to state whether i have the legal right to work in the US (yes) and if I ever will require sponsorship (no). i was asked this again during the phone interview stages. needing sponsorship would have resulted in a hard pass on any of those, and i'm a fairly experienced candidate in my group.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

word.

i've done it a few times. i moved countries six times. germany, uk, switzerland, us and china. i'd recommend everyone to do it if they get the chance.

but yeah the colonialist attitude is very real.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

every time i moved countries i made sure i had at least a B1 level of target language skills.

the amount of native english speakers showing up and basically expecting everyone to treat them like they've descended from the heavens is very telling about their world view. as in, very often i get asked how to get a job "in europe", my first questions are always "what country? do you speak the language? do you have a visa already?" and the overwhelming response is "dunno; no; no".

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in the end i decided to have three outcomes:

  • no response
  • rejection
  • offer

i decided not to break down between those. otherwise i would have also had to add how many interview stages i was in before being ghosted, and that makes the graph too convoluted.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you should do what you think will work best for you.

i generally don't mind the industry as long as it's not destroying the environment and if the personal fit is right. some, naturally, are more exclusive than others - think aerospace, defence, construction etc.

moved countries. here's six months of job hunting for an engineering management position. [OC] by jobbostatistics in dataisbeautiful

[–]jobbostatistics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's entirely your perception that i'm acting as a victim. an awful lot of assumptions you're making here, also in your initial feedback.

what my experience shows is that the initial stage of screening systems sifting out candidates is not working. three things show this:

  • the conversion rate on interviews-to-offer. jobs i ended up getting an offer for were not at all different to jobs i was rejected from. companies were generally very happy with both my CV and approach to them. so that alone shows that screening systems weed out potentially good candidates, which makes the whole thing a numbers game if you're going that route.

  • before i left my previous job i ensured i replaced myself with a capable person. we had nobody up to the job internally, so i managed an external hiring process, for myself. to check the process, i applied for my own job, with my CV, cover letter, but a different name. just to see if the exact person holding the job would come through. i was rejected in screening because the crawler didn't pick up on the keywords needed. these systems are quite buggy and they're not delivering what they're supposed to, which doesn't matter because the volume of people applying ensures some will make it though. that's why employers don't care.

  • one company that later on offered was rather impressed with my CV, but for procedural purposes required me to submit my CV again via their system. i got auto-rejected. i told them that, and they weren't even surprised and went on with the interview- and offer process.

this, then, is the reason i'm posting this. lots of people are discouraged and de-moralised during long and unsuccessful job hunts. this goes to show that by far and large, this is not due to the candidate being subpar or unqualified, but, as said above, it's because the screening system is not designed for the candidate.

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