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[deleted] t1_jdow1pr wrote

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gaytee t1_jdpqjmn wrote

I’ll defer the hater attitude and downvotes to let you all know that now I work 20 hour weeks at MOST, from wherever I want, and make a healthy six figures.

Sure the scale differs when you’re a software engineer, not a cook, but the fact is that for all jobs, I don’t trust anyone’s resume, I trust how they handle Sunday brunch or a regional instance of an AWS cluster failing during deploy that causes the SaaS app to fail on a peak weekend.

I’d never hire you blindly, but I’d let you do a coding challenge, the same way I’d let you stage during a catered event to see how you handle it.

To be clear, each job application is maybe 2-3 hours of work, I didn’t do 3 full time weeks of work for one app, as much as the software engineering job market is very competitive and it took a while to find a good opportunity.

Get with it or stay poor, sad and broken, homies. I am only here to help provide insight into how the rest of the world without college degrees, myself included, makes it.

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TheBaltimoron t1_jdyq0ne wrote

Who is talking about hiring blindly? If you work, you get paid.

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gaytee t1_jdvfxc5 wrote

It’s not different from what I originally said, but for some reason all of you chose to think I put in nearly a month of work for some app where my coding assignments were used in production which really happens far less often than some of the hiring horror stories suggest.

While that does happen some of the time, it’s not common practice. I get it though, the downvotes are just projections of insecurities bcz jealousy causes weird reactions.

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gaytee t1_jdw5hhh wrote

Lol. If you think any of this is humble bragging, I feel bad for anyone who tries to have a conversation with you that contains opposing views. This is me doing nothing more than providing realistic insight into a different industry than OP was talking about that has similar hiring strategies, because this hiring strategy exists everywhere and it's goal is to weed out liars.

Until you draft the legislation to require staging/interview time to be paid and it gets signed into law, all of your energy dedicated to being upset at less than legal hiring practices is nothing more than a waste of time. You could be improving your earning potential, increasing your industry knowledge and get promoted, but you'd rather project insecurities about your lack of success in this thread than accept that maybe more of life is within your control than you admit and you're just lazy. Why do you expect everything, including jobs to just be handed to you without earning them? Filling out an application and having a decent work history is NOT earning the job, its earning the opportunity to be considered seriously.

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