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3y

Apparently the fact I like to study things outside what I do for a living is bad for recruiters.

"We selected a candidate which focuses only on the frontend."

Why is everyone so afraid about the fact people can do more than one thing? Is it the fact they'd realize they are mediocre af if they would have to admit specialization doesn't mean they should stop to be passionate about the rest of the world?

I didn't say stuff like: "I am a pro in every it field", I said: "While I am definitely stronger on the frontend, I have interest in both backend and frontend, because it allows me to better understand how systems work and it helps me understanding that sometimes what may seem easy to do for the other role may also come at a too big to handle performance cost."

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  • 2
    3y
    Maybe they thought you would also like to be involved in the BE part.

    Or they just feared they would have to pay you more.
  • 1
    3y
    Tbh, specialists are sometimes quite inept. Front end juniors often come to me with problems that could be solved with two lines of backend code, like adding a query filter, but they can't do that so I end up having to waste my time write tons of little things for them.
  • 0
    3y
    They're giving you generic crap feedback. Just ignore it. The actual reason was probably just "we saw a guy we thought we'd get along with better" or similar - but saying that opens them up to discrimination allegations, so they'll never even think of saying that.
  • 0
    3y
    @eo2875 all my yesses.

    *We have the most literal issue of orthogonality in our backend*

    Me: "that's gonna fuck up in the future, it's orthogonality which (...)."
    Backend 'specialist': "it will never happen and this saves 1 db operation (no, dumb boy, just add `, secondField` to your query), stop reading programming books, you are not as smart as you think."

    *Fast forward a couple of months, the issue comes up and gets fixed*

    *The very next week*
    Them:"Ah, and we will implement this field in this way"
    Me:"wasn't the last week's issue due to an implementation close to this one?"
    Then: "yeah, but it will never happen."
    Me, in my mind: "and stop reading programming books, you are not as smart as you think you are?"
  • 0
    3y
    @AlmondSauce feels like it... It's just sad that the system is like this, i get super bitter afterwards... Especially cause you took 2 weeks of my life with your 3 meetings and the coding challenge... This process is so broken
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