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this week i've gotten 2 cold calls, one from goog and one from I'm helping Matternet, one of the only FAA-approved drone companies, grow their engineering team. They use aerial drone technology to deliver medical supplies to developing parts of the world with no access to hospitals or emergency medical assistance.
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JawnV6 posted:this week i've gotten 2 cold calls, one from goog and one from ooo I got a good one today At Flipside Crypto we come from a number of successful startups. In this venture, we’ve teamed up to tackle an interesting problem: demystifying, simplifying, and bettering your odds while investing in cryptocurrencies.
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ci&rs: trying to play it cool when recruiters are mentioning massive figgies *loud gulp* uh yeah that sounds about what I’m looking for
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I can imagine it would be p. awkward for a recruiter to bring up his plus size fetish
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god dammit i'm trying to use leetcode to practice for technical interviews and i feel like its such garbage these are two of the top solutions for a 'medium' problem so verbose it's nearly unreadable or 'Challenge me , thx' with absolutely no comments or explanation, half the comments are '666666'
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meatpotato posted:i'm trying to use leetcode to practice for technical interviews and i feel like its such garbage
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or am i the stupid one? that verbose explanation seems super explicit but my eyes just glaze over after a few minutes of reading it.
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meatpotato posted:or am i the stupid one? that verbose explanation seems super explicit but my eyes just glaze over after a few minutes of reading it. "clever" programmers suck and write unreadable code, clever programmers also like coding challenge poo poo like this to show how goddamn clever they are.
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Aug 9, 2018 23:00
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then it seems like asking people to solve these kinds of problems in a phone screen or interview is a good way to find 'clever' programmers 
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Aug 9, 2018 23:04
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Nah, the entire point of leetcode/hackerwank/whatevs is that so that people who consider themselves The Smartest Guy in The Room can wave their cheeto-stained dicks at each other over who can come up with the most opaque solution to a problem that doesn't exist. [edit] What that guy said.
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9/10 of the technical interviews I've had have been stuff that seems straight out of leetcode though  the only one I enjoyed was the guy who handed me a sheet of paper with ~20 lines of C printed on it and told me to find as many bugs as I could, that was fun.
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dammit I've been applying to jobs for a month now (12 applications sent so far) and haven't gotten a call back yet
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meatpotato posted:9/10 of the technical interviews I've had have been stuff that seems straight out of leetcode though
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fwiw the job i just got (which is with a SF startup) had 0 coding challenges or other bullshit, it was a lot of "here's a problem we encountered, let's whiteboard the system and indicate how you'd fix <x> problem, what sort of tradeoffs are there, etc." and "talk about a project you've done, tell us about the problems you had, how did you debug things, etc." it was very refreshing
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FormatAmerica posted:"clever" programmers suck and write unreadable code, clever programmers also like coding challenge poo poo like this to show how goddamn clever they are. Asking for a friend. It's me. I'm my only friend.
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meatpotato posted:9/10 of the technical interviews I've had have been stuff that seems straight out of leetcode though i like this one that does sound fun i had a postcard from a company like that at a school recruiting event. it was p cool. i just emailed in something like well it looks like <XYZ> is wrong, but theres no documentation of what this function is supposed to do, so maybe it is subtly doing the correct thing and the only defect is the missing documentation  i got an interview they gave me a five figgy offer
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meatpotato posted:god dammit ok, geez, I get it now but it took hours
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Leetcode is just an arbitrary metric of narrowing down candidates that doesn't involve throwing half the stack of resumes in the bin without looking.
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meatpotato posted:9/10 of the technical interviews I've had have been stuff that seems straight out of leetcode though most of the interviews I've done literally used hackerrank as part of the interviews. do you a hackerrank meatpotato posted:dammit I've been applying to jobs for a month now (12 applications sent so far) and haven't gotten a call back yet keep it up, it took me 5 months and like 30-some applications to get 4 serious interviews and 1 offer. interviewing blows but you'll get there eventually
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12 applications seems like a lot to not get any interest at all. Maybe your resume needs some improvement?
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the resume thread in BFC is very good, but really, i think the best advice is be specific about what you did, and make sure to highlight a few of the things they're asking for in the ad at the very top, in the summary part. when i talked to some consulting sharks about selling resources using resumes, they pretty much said that if the hr person doesn't see the right keywords in like the first few lines, you're getting passed over. i brushed up mine with the advice from that thread and my response rate has been through the roof since.
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uncurable mlady posted:fwiw the job i just got (which is with a SF startup) 
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I had my resume critiqued recently by somebody who hires people (but not in tech) and revised it accordingly i'll take a look at the resume thread, thanks for the suggestion 
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also, i have been replying to all the linkedin recruiters even though none of their jobs are relevant to my experience or skills yet (lots of HIGH GROWTH STARTUP seeking founding member of technical staff FIRMWARE ARCHITECT, etc.)
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to be clear, I'm seeking mentoring, decent pay, and opportunity to learn new technical skills outside of firmware, my current pigeonhole
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meatpotato posted:to be clear, I'm seeking mentoring, decent pay, and opportunity to learn new technical skills outside of firmware, my current pigeonhole maybe find a small company that does embedded stuff, but also wants a bunch of bad web interfaces or cloud services for their embedded junk?
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they seem cool and i'm working remotely and it's not bullshit tech so i think i'll be fine
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Hello friends. I am starting my job search in earnest today. Please wish me luck.
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meatpotato posted:this might be a good time to ask this question then never reply to recruiters offering contract gigs or recruiters that don’t mention the company name.
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anybody have any success stories picking up part-time short-term contract work? i haven't reached out to my network yet, but i assume that's probably my best lead. any other good places to look that wont give me lovely elance jobs for 10bux/hr or osmething
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The Management posted:never reply to recruiters offering contract gigs or recruiters that don’t mention the company name. if you're interested in the actual company search the job description in your area because those recruiters usually copy and paste it.
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Asleep Style posted:Hello friends. I am starting my job search in earnest today. Please wish me luck. good luck! remember that rejections aren’t necessarily your fault, even if you get a bunch in a row!
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raminasi posted:good luck! remember that rejections aren’t necessarily your fault, even if you get a bunch in a row!
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raminasi posted:good luck! remember that rejections aren’t necessarily your fault, even if you get a bunch in a row! you’re going to bomb some interviews. it happens to everyone.
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FMguru posted:also: dont stop searching until your new job hands you your security badge and confirms you won't have to take a lovely weed-out test that might get you fired
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:anybody have any success stories picking up part-time short-term contract work? i haven't reached out to my network yet, but i assume that's probably my best lead. any other good places to look that wont give me lovely elance jobs for 10bux/hr or osmething I have one. An old friend worked at a toy robot startup and she told me they needed somebody to write firmware. They wanted to hire full-time, but I didn't want to quit my job, mostly because the commute to the toy robot place would be awful i offered to contract as-needed instead of being full-time and after a few months of silence they asked if I was available for a few projects. I asked for $130/hour (multiplied my annual salary by 100 after inflating it a bit) and they said yes without hesitating, so I probably should have asked for more. Anyway, they let me work remotely and I had a pretty consistent 10-20 hours of work a week on top of my regular job, which was a little stressful for a while until I quit my full-time job and did a month of just contracting, then it was really nice.
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meatpotato posted:I have one. An old friend worked at a toy robot startup and she told me they needed somebody to write firmware. They wanted to hire full-time, but I didn't want to quit my job, mostly because the commute to the toy robot place would be awful im really sorry to hear your salary is only $1.30. sad member of the one figgy club 
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lol
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ahem, divided by 100
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