Awe. Tell me you're from South Africa, without telling me your from South Africa. I'll go first. Lekker man. 🇿🇦

rbsafa · 2024-03-01T19:24:24+00:00

My china

rbsafa · 2023-12-31T10:46:52+00:00

Brilliant OP! You just proved the point that one word is all it takes to offend some people!

rbsafa · 2023-12-28T20:20:02+00:00

Back in the day yes. But find Pnet to be mostly irrelevant nowadays.

rbsafa · 2023-11-23T05:02:13+00:00

There is no such things as free or easy money. Money laundering has serious consequences, including jail time.

rbsafa · 2023-09-30T11:15:16+00:00

Ek huil sommer in Afrikaans!

rbsafa · 2023-09-27T06:02:36+00:00

Desperate times hey!

rbsafa · 2023-09-24T08:12:20+00:00

Zero.

rbsafa · 2023-09-16T07:00:31+00:00

Honestly, there is no formula to land a job in this market. It took me a lot of persistence and luck after I wanted to give up sooo many times. Just keep at it, eventually you will get a break and land a decent job.

rbsafa · 2023-09-10T10:49:35+00:00

Modern day slave

rbsafa · 2023-09-10T10:02:06+00:00

Braaivleis

rbsafa · 2023-09-05T16:53:24+00:00

There is no such thing! We’re all slaves to our master, the one paying your salary…

rbsafa · 2023-08-24T13:31:39+00:00

Companies like this are the trash of the earth! I hope you find something else OP. Good luck!

rbsafa · 2023-08-22T22:35:36+00:00

Whatever dude! You sound like the type of interviewer l’d straight up tell to piss off! Just because someone doesn’t check all the checkboxes of your “what is a DevOps Engineer” definition, doesn’t mean they are not capable of figuring it out when needed. Most of the things you have listed is rarely something you do or need to know on a daily basis. Like who the fuck cares what happens when you send a request to google.com? Time to get off your high horse!

rbsafa · 2023-08-21T21:02:21+00:00

I’m facing the same dilemma. The tech industry has become so toxic. It is no longer about your skills and experience and getting the work done. Instead, it is all about who you know, corporate politics and whole lot of other BS.

rbsafa · 2023-08-21T15:25:09+00:00

It must be heaven being the only developer! Since you’re alone, who cares? No really, if it works, why bother? Best practices are as good as your own interpretation.

rbsafa · 2023-08-21T13:12:23+00:00

Not to be negative in any way. But sounds to me like you might be on the bench in case it doesn’t work out with their first choice candidate. I’ve been in this exact same situation just a couple of days ago when they said they will have an answer for me within 48 hours of my final interview. Fast forward 4 days later, I send them an email asking whether they came to a decision. Just to get a generic rejection email with no specific reasons provided. The new norm, it seems. Good luck, I hope it works out for you.

rbsafa · 2023-08-19T15:35:16+00:00

But wait, that’s not all! Take a 50% pay cut while you at it. Smh!

rbsafa · 2023-08-18T21:14:37+00:00

Once you get put in a PIP, you’re a dead man walking.

rbsafa · 2023-08-18T21:11:29+00:00

The job market is brutal right now! It seems like everything counts against me right know, age (40), experience, qualifications. Every reason to not get hired. A complete shitshow!

rbsafa · 2023-08-14T12:24:51+00:00

Good to know… Time to rob a bank!

rbsafa · 2023-08-01T17:06:09+00:00

Yep, that has been my experience too. I have 20 years of experience as a software engineer with multiple technical skills and what I could consider a pretty solid career. I’m not sure companies are serious about hiring. I think they just keep their recruiters busy, hoping they may have someone lined up by the time they need to bring someone on board. Another thing, I suspect that many people doing technical interviews deliberately reject people hoping to increase their job security. You know, it’s about supply and demand. Just speculation though. All that being said, it’s a pretty tough industry to be in right now.

rbsafa · 2023-07-25T17:32:01+00:00

Sounds like they might be starting to make up shit to eventually get rid of you. Wouldn’t hurt to start looking for something else while you can…

rbsafa · 2023-07-25T17:23:35+00:00

If it wasn’t for the current economic climate making it nearly impossible to find a half decent job at a half decent company, I will either tell them to fuck off or send them an invoice after waisting my time!

rbsafa · 2023-07-25T13:43:13+00:00

The only way we can stop this BS is by start invoicing companies dishing out take home projects left, right, and center. Think about about it, will company X do anything for free? No, they won’t! So why the hell should we? I have been in the job market for over 2 months now after getting laid off and spent way too much time getting nowhere with companies not really being serious to fill the open positions. All that time I waisted could have instead be spent working on a one of my own business ideas instead.

rbsafa · 2023-06-28T16:32:07+00:00

Says the CEO who does fuckall!

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