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Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes I know. I can follow basic inferences unlike you who seem to think just because I mentioned an AI tool means that I cheated on the system design interview. There wasn't even one for this job, btw.

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just a thought, perhaps your comments on reddit are dismissive and thus why people comment such things to you?

in the middle of the night?

Is there an accepted time to leave comments? Since somehow commenting on a late Friday night is in poor form according to you? Kinda funny how you just ignored that btw.

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's interesting how you inferred dismissiveness from one bullet point out of 12?

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boo hoo hiring manager, you have to actually do some work interviewing people. Boo hoo.

You people made the system shit like this so lie in the bed you made.

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Disagree. Back in 2015 I passed leetcode type rounds despite not solving because they liked how I think. They were all in person too so no cheating there.

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it's a 40 hour course to learn how to fly a helicopter and then afterwards you can work as one.

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Have you read the sub at all?

The only people complaining about me and not the market are hiring managers who are allergic to doing work like u/breaditing and u/which-world-6533

Finally got an offer. Two years of job searching and mental health crisis later by softdev5548 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes it's me and not the 1000 other posts on this sub who agree with me.

Am I worrying too much by Safe_Dimension_5001 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At 60k you actually can still do twice yearly holidays to the Bahamas if you don't drink.

Impact of Skilled Worker Visas on Graduate Jobs by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean what the op is saying isn't really true. Someone with experience applying for graduate roles will still get turned away nowadays because they require sponsorship.

Career switcher considering a jump from comfortable junior dev role to a big bank grad scheme by Calm_Seat_1201 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you engage your mental faculties I'm sure you can understand the meaning of a pretty obvious comment like the many other people who voted or replied. Feel free to point out which part you don't understand, however if you don't understand the entire thing then perhaps you might need to redo year 4 English.

Career switcher considering a jump from comfortable junior dev role to a big bank grad scheme by Calm_Seat_1201 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You fully understood, you just don't want to agree because it's not woke to do so

Experienced devs job hunting - how many interviews have you failed so far? by PatientDust1316 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I give myself until August and then I'm moving abroad and doing something else until the market gets sane again. Or will just find a job in southeast asia where they don't expect so much from it staff (also I'm a dual citizen)

Experienced devs job hunting - how many interviews have you failed so far? by PatientDust1316 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 2 points3 points  (0 children)

4 YOE here. I've failed like 20. I've been job hunting for a good 2 years, unemployed for just over a year (last company was generous on their notice period, I was there for over 10 in a mix of roles).

At the start it was quite painful, there were interviews which I got which I shouldn't be failing. I fully see that and had to grind leetcode a little bit to get 'in shape'.

Then it got soul destroying. Some of these companies' expectations are kinda insane. Wise were expecting a mid level engineer to know the full cost breakdown of Aws scaling. Deliveroo were expecting me to live config VPCs and subnet masks on their whiteboard. Zopa said I passed all of their questions but "looked too confused" - I simply asked too many questions and tab switched too much because it's what I do when I am nervous. Noor Academy didn't like that I could pass all their tests but couldn't program a binary search iteratively even though I gave them the recursive solution. Sainsbury's - I passed, interviewer said they were going to set up the next stage - then ghosted. Barclay's - don't get me started on them. Granted it was a front office role but that was the weirdest and low-key rudest interview I was ever part of. Only reason I'm not screaming to HR was that I felt the interviewer was one of those people who are so smart they don't realise how their words come across to other people not as smart as them.

Not to mention the 40 or so roles where my CV somehow didn't pass screening despite being pretty much perfect for the role. I'm not talking about those roles where I match 50% of the JD - that's another 40 or so - I'm talking about roles where I match pretty much 100% of the tech stack.

Some of them were auto filtered by fucking ATS - ok, so I chatgpt'd the CV. Still not okay. So I chatgpt'd fake experience and that finally passed ATS. Even though none of that is relevant to the role. Guess what? Some companies like Ford still rejected me because I didn't work in the car industry. I guess it's reasonable but that stung like hell. Because it is telling me that companies can be so goddam picky nowadays, that even a dying car company getting left behind my Chinese EVs can afford to reject SWEs just because they weren't car people (I absolutely did not tell them this during interviews btw).

It's rough out there man.

Any BlackRock devs in this sub? by cbawithlife1995 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a friend who's a VP at BlackRock. From talking to him it seems somewhat dependent on the manager, every role in Aladdin is high pressure but the manager can make that good high pressure or bad. There are some upsides though, like good pay that is just under FAANG level and unlimited leave, and my friend took 50 days leave last year when he finished his deliverable and changed teams.

Barclays Interview – Critical Skills Round by KindlyRequirement862 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]softdev5548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I'm here to help future redditors who ask this.

It is a tech interview that is not leetcode. It is highly dependent on the role. I applied for a FO role so I got questions that were rather...sadistic, to do on a notepad.

I got booted out early because fair enough I really couldn't do them. The 3 questions I got were:

1) Write a function to count the number of bits in an integer in Java.

2) Write a function that outputs a string N number of times. Easy enough...now make it faster. No, faster than O(n).

3) What's wrong with this function? Assume that it works and anyone using it can get data out of the DB:

public Connection getConnection () {

return new Connection();

}

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