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The juiciest bit is here, but he's all over the thread fighting everyone who tells him to put in the tiniest bit of effort if he wants a job.
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Holy frick, go to his profile - he's written over a hundred comments on this one thread over the last couple of hours.
https://old.reddit.com/user/Aidan_Welch
I went through 4 full pages of his profile and didn't get to the end.
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If he put the same amount of effort into finding a job he’d probably have one by now
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Instead of writing reddit comments he should learn from trans lives matter and write some code instead
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You can see his resume too. So bad
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His resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U68uFBalSPGSe94e-ud8s6WhPewbaYQq/view
So he’s interned at the same company for three summers and they still don’t trust him to do anything other than “deploy apps to azure”. Not sure why they need a human to deploy apps, should be automated.
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If you're needing to put shit like "web scraping" and "video compression" into your skills, you make it clear that you know jack shit.
Couple that with listing open-source contributions like this, it's no surprise they don't trust him with anything. Guy is a CV-padder.
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Lol, I like that he also added himself to the contributors list for that. What a fricking tool. I bet he’d fail a fizz buzz test.
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this dude made his resume in ms paint and wonders why no one calls him for an interview
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I've seen some ugly resumes in my day, but if I ever saw that resume I would throw it in the trash without even looking it over. Not even joking, I probably wouldn't even think it's a resume at first glance
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Not only is the content of the resume shit but it's visually appalling as well. If that showed up at my job it'd get tossed in the trash before it even got read.
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If I saw that resume land on my desk I would throw it straight in the trash. Disgusting.
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What a shitty fricking resume. Unironically just make a simple list. Center your name up top. Put your email and number below it. Put a section for experience. List your past jobs/activities that relate to job skills. Put a section for education. Maybe a section for extra skills.
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Right? I don't understand why so many people have trouble making half-decent resumes. Christ even if you're too lazy to do it yourself you can find a template with 30 secs of googling.
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They read a “THIS unique resume got this idiot hired to 5 major tech companies in 30 seconds” blogspam 2 years ago and were convinced they needed to do something “unique.”
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Lmao, his experience at his internships:
Probably not capable of writing any code.
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How much do people do at their coding internships?
I think I did a bit of sql and occasionally worked in c# but for the most part I was just talking with the boss about whatever he wanted to talk about (rowing shit because he rowed crew in college and I row now).
Pretty much my only skills as a college junior is data structures, Ms SQL, c#, and embedded C/Assembly from an elective (I’m a ChemE so most of my skills are in chemical engineering shit even tho I intern at a software firm).
If he’s writing a logger (we just used serilog) that’s actually really impressive for a college student.
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He most certainly didn’t write a logger, “improving error logging” means he changed some print statements to logger.log. And I’m not sure what shitty company you worked at for your internship, but I actually had to ship features for the product at mine.
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He's not wrong though. I've been in the tech field for two decades so I have a fairly easy time getting a job now, but when you're a recent college graduate it's actually pretty challenging. I feel like HR departments who don't even understand technology disqualify people based purely on resume keywords. Like if you can program in C you can program in Java since they're almost exactly the same except for memory management, but your typical HR drone will say "This guy doesn't know Java, throw his resume onto the trash heap."
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A junior developer is just a loss on a company’s books until they’ve been trained and usually they just frick off after a year anyway. There’s no incentive for companies to hire juniors when they don’t provide any value.
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Honestly, I wouldn't know. I've never had enough raw data about hiring/retention rates to be able to speak intelligently about the subject.
Even so, I imagine that there ought to be ways to disincentivize that. Like start them off at a really low salary (maybe 50% of what you would pay an experienced developer), and increase it by 15% each year until they reach market parity. That way, they know that they're not going to have to switch jobs in order to be paid a reasonable salary, and they won't jump ship as soon as they have the resume experience needed to land something better. At the same time, the company itself isn't getting screwed by paying top dollar for a worthless trainee, because by the time the trainee is being paid market rate they have 4 to 5 years of experience.
My numbers may need some tweaking, but I'm sure you get the gist of what I'm saying.
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Fair enough, I’m not speaking off of any concrete data either, this is just what my seniors and mentors have iterated to me over the years when I’ve asked why such a hiring discrepancy exists.
I am surprised though that companies don’t hand out more generous raises for juniors to encourage them to stay like you theorized.
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Any codecel job tips fpr someone hoping to switch careers into tech? My current plan is freecodecamp.org, study for CCNA, and look for a help desk or local MSP intro position
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That sounds like a pretty good plan already. My only piece of advice is to try to build a portfolio of projects you can point to on the interview - for example, create an app for Alexa or the Google play store. Having something tangible that you can display during the interview will partially compensate for your lack of experience.
Good luck!
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What kind of tech job do you want - development, testing/QA, ops, IT support, security... ?
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They also have to compete with discount Indian programmers who went to a diploma mill instead of a proper school.
"Hey, we got the site written for 2/3 the cost! Hey, what do you mean, SQL injection?"
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Now that I'm not frantically interviewing I need to keep monitoring that sub for drama. It's a literal dramacoin mine.
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Oh man, are you not already? I read cscq daily for the drama, it's fantastic. Just filled to the brim with salty bootcamp ""grads"" who don't understand why their 12 week Javascript course didn't guarantee them a 6 figure job and webshits who have panic attacks at the thought of pointers and manual memory allocation.
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I used to look at that sub on the daily a while back, but I had to stop when I was doing my last several rounds of interviewing because it was too demoralizing.
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You shouldn’t worry. You can safely discount every single piece of information you ever read from that place.
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Don’t forget the college freshers larping as senior devs
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checked this guys github and he uses problematic terms like "whitelist" and "blacklist", what a chud!
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Least neurodivergent cs enthusiast
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