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Looking for a good and decent job is almost a crime against humanity. Where I live there aren't that many developers, and the ones around have 0 idea of what I talk about. Now, in a city like Austin kr San Francisco, this is hard to come by and usually makes people think that you are some sort of wizard. But here? It is debilitating and horrible "yeah we heard about node and php, but we are using asp and have started adding modern technologies like jquery (for fks sake)" this is the story of my life man. Hr for the place I currently work took 8 months before they gave me an interview. They were asking for intern level skills with an associates in i.t...i am a B.S Comp Sci graduate and they still acted as if it was a hard choice. By the time my manager interviewed me she was sad because the final word came from H.R and not her. Fuck this.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
HR departments really really annoy me
Firstly, they take an age and a half to respond to job applications. Now I understand that there are multiple steps in choosing a candidate, gotta look through their cover letter, resume etc, maybe talk to a lead somewhere, but 4 FREAKING MONTHS? SERIOUSLY?
HOWEVER, if they DO ACTUALLY REPLY then that makes them better than most HR departments. If I've gone to the effort of filling all of your application forms with strange questions in, and I've written you a tailor-made cover letter, the LEAST I expect is a simple copy pasta email saying setting like "Sorry, but you don't match what we're looking for". That's all. Don't even need to include my name. 100% copy and paste. 10 extra seconds in the 4 months it took you to read half a page of text and some nicely formatted bullet points
So incredibly annoying
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