Making meaningful contact with someone on the other end who is TRYING.
Most contacts I have with recruiters of all types involve indications they haven't read my resume (or anything about me) and effectively are a sort of "cold call" situation where they know nothing about me compared to the job.
I feel like there is a whole recruiting business of creating busywork for themselves.
I'm inundated with folks contacting me on various services (most are turned off as I'm working), and most every contact was a waste of time for me the last time I was in contact with anyone.
For a given job the real technical decision maker probabbly could give me a thumbs up or down in a matter of seconds as far as the first filter goes, but instead you dance around with various other people first for what could be hours for no good reason.
Nothing, its always been easy for me to get jobs as a developer, I don't understand people that find it difficult. If you have at least one years full-time experience and are competent on the job then most companies I've known will be desperate to hire you as there is such a huge shortage of good developers.
There isn't a huge shortage. If there was they would take on people with proven skill in related languages and train. There is a shortage with developers with 3-5 years experiencd having the exact stack the company is looking for.
Interesting point. I have stuck with the same stack for about 6 years so maybe this is why I find it easy to get jobs?
As for remote work, the majority of the jobs I've had have been either fully remote or partial - like between 1-3 days a week in the office, the rest from home. Never found any difference when applying to remote jobs myself.
>When recruiters barely take a look at you because you didn't go to Stanford or some elite uni.
Is this only a problem on the West Coast or applying at FAANG-like companies or something? Neither myself nor anybody I know has ever had such an issue in the South, Midwest, Northeast, or on the East Coast.
Making meaningful contact with someone on the other end who is TRYING.
Most contacts I have with recruiters of all types involve indications they haven't read my resume (or anything about me) and effectively are a sort of "cold call" situation where they know nothing about me compared to the job.
I feel like there is a whole recruiting business of creating busywork for themselves.
I'm inundated with folks contacting me on various services (most are turned off as I'm working), and most every contact was a waste of time for me the last time I was in contact with anyone.
For a given job the real technical decision maker probabbly could give me a thumbs up or down in a matter of seconds as far as the first filter goes, but instead you dance around with various other people first for what could be hours for no good reason.
best story I've read about these gatekeepers https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/ayep7t/a...
Going through the interviews. You have to waste a day + study time doing it.
If you have 4 interviews in a week that is 4 days you have to burn.
The hardest part is actually having your resume read by a human decision maker who is not HR,agent, jobsite, middleman, etc.
To do so, your resume must look flawless. And impressive. Both content and form. For form, try Latex.
Then find the decision maker and send email directly. The job sites are useless.
Hands-off Managers and Department Heads -- who are largely uninvolved in the hiring process.
Especially true for large companies, they've abdicated this responsibility to mindless, soulless HR flunkies.
"Well you've got all the technical skills we listed but I don't see this random file format we added on so ..."
You don't know jason?
One of those things you don't think to mention, but should.
How much alphabet soup makes sense to list?
Nothing, its always been easy for me to get jobs as a developer, I don't understand people that find it difficult. If you have at least one years full-time experience and are competent on the job then most companies I've known will be desperate to hire you as there is such a huge shortage of good developers.
Sorry if thats conceited.
That's what I thought until I tried to go remote.
There isn't a huge shortage. If there was they would take on people with proven skill in related languages and train. There is a shortage with developers with 3-5 years experiencd having the exact stack the company is looking for.
Interesting point. I have stuck with the same stack for about 6 years so maybe this is why I find it easy to get jobs?
As for remote work, the majority of the jobs I've had have been either fully remote or partial - like between 1-3 days a week in the office, the rest from home. Never found any difference when applying to remote jobs myself.
"Can do" attitude is a good selling point. "Better than you" is not.
Trying to find the motivation to prepare for the arbitrary algorithm interviews when you believe on principle that this is just the wrong way to hire.
When recruiters barely take a look at you because you didn't go to Stanford or some elite uni.
Job interviews with too many interview rounds.
>When recruiters barely take a look at you because you didn't go to Stanford or some elite uni.
Is this only a problem on the West Coast or applying at FAANG-like companies or something? Neither myself nor anybody I know has ever had such an issue in the South, Midwest, Northeast, or on the East Coast.
Really? I went to uni in Australia but I get passed on by HR because they are looking for someone with ‘US experience’.
Having to interview over and over again.