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JsonBoa
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As an interviewer, the toughest part is actually before the interviews, trying to convince recruiting teams that you are not looking for "anyone who works with computers".

Seriously, I've once heard a recruiter ask me "you want someone who knows the program language, right?", to what I answered "a couple, yes". The mouth breather looked at me astonished, askng "is there another?!?"
I'm not surprised that they shower me in piss-poor curriculums from anyone who had a Nintendo DS growing up.
Someone needs to come up with a way to hire more selective recruiters. But I guess we're back to square one when approaching this problem.

About being interviewed, the toughest part is when people do not know the salary that will be offered (usually those recruiter types) and evade the question as billionaires evade taxes.
I don't fucking care if your compensation "is so competitive it could have been an Olympian", I want to compare numbers. And if you do not have a number, I will assume the money is crap, period.

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  • 6
    Well, no one that studied hard becomes a recruiter. That’s what you do when you are in a pinch or lack skills. So you run into clueless people all the time.
  • 1
    @horus hire me! My company is on fire!
  • 1
    @horus just joking really. Well, not about the company being on fire. I’m in Tokyo tho so yeah.
  • 3
    @ars1 do you need to borrow a bucket of water?
  • 5
    @horus with language requirements I'm already like uuuh. If you learn the concepts well hopping to a different language is like 2 weeks. Same for frameworks.

    Yet I'm stuck in php hell. Because applying to an app with a different language is almost always an auto reject.

    Lovely.

    Then you have the code assignments.
    Doing pretty useless DS&A I'll likely never touch on the job.

    Recently did one and a "passing grade" was 20% for them. Like excuse me I think you are asking the wrong questions then.
  • 2
    It's always "market conform" salary.
    So you wanna pay crap. Hmmkay.

    I swear. I've seen production work that paid more then some of the places I interviewed.
  • 2
    @rootshell oh I like the different terms and phrases they come up with to make the salary sound good without telling the hard numbers. so creative
  • 0
    I generally just dont fucking try if they dont even set a range tbh.
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