How did you land into your current job?

It was just one of the 50 jobs or so I applied to when I was unemployed. I liked that it was just one interview and that's it, meanwhile other companies required 3 or 4 interviews and a technical test or similar shit.

A Zoom call with the CEO while being manic. Landed a CTO role, celebrated my three years recently. Bipolar type I does give you superpowers, like in the movie Limitless, but they last days while costing months of subsequent depression.

Reccomended by a friend who was working there, the "interview" was 2 paid weeks of working for them

I was a sysadmin, elbows deep in sysadmin's shit. Always wanted to be a dev. I applied to one company and was invited for a jr interview.

I deferred -- was swamped in my current role. Rescheduled once again. And again. Hr called me asking what's happening, I explained I have a fuckload of work during working hours, can't do the homework. I suggested to drop this whole thing, as I've wasted too much of their time already

next day, they scheduled a 1hr slot during lunch time for me to come to their office. Read: they insisted on me doing the task and went an extra mile to give me the oppurtunity.

I came, did the task as well as I could, left. 2hrs later I got an offer. 1/3 of my sysadmin's salary, and I happily took it.

8 years later I'm still working in the same company.

@netikras

Where is this unicorn company that went through these huge efforts only to hire a junior?

I can understand if they did it for a senior position, but junior?!

Then you mentioned that you stay there for 8 years, maybe it's indeed a good company.

Damn...job hunting now sucks compared to that

@cho-uc It really is a good company :) It helped me grow A LOT, its attitude never undermines the employee's needs/opinion, even a junior's, it promotes professional growth, etc.

Recruiter reached out on Linkedin during Covid. I did two Zoom interviews and was given a remote role.

Really cool seeing everyone’s job journeys—some of these are super inspiring, and some are just wild. Mine was a bit of both, honestly. Before landing my current gig, I almost got pulled into something sketchy that looked legit at first. It actually pushed me to dig into some research and I found this super helpful page about common job scams https://help-center.pissedconsumer.com/... Eye-opener for sure. After that, I started double-checking everything, and it made a big difference. Just a reminder that not every offer is what it seems. Glad I ended up where I am now, but it was a ride!