Comment by ucaetano | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ucaetano | Hacker News Reader

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> What is? At the end of the day this just looks like entitlement.

I had the same impression, particularly driven by these quotes:

From this day on, I was even more disappointed — both with myself and tech hiring process — rejection, rejection, rejection. It honestly feels as if I am a complete failure and an unhirable candidate. How is this possible — I have received emails from people all over the world, who praise and give me thanks for the work I’ve done on my open-source projects and tutorials (and I say this as humbly as I can); people who see me as an expert on Hackhands; co-workers, friends and acquaintances from meetups, hackathons, conferences who apparently think I am a decent programmer—but I cannot pass a single tech interview. How?

TBH, the author sounds like someone who went to the interviews completely unprepared, believing that just because they have some open-source projects and tutorials, they deserve to be hired.

Nobody deserves anything. Most of my friends who went up for interviews with FAANG (or whatever is the latest acronym) studied and prepared for months even before applying.

> Nobody deserves anything.

I'm pretty sure doctors don't have to go get their high school bio textbooks and review cell structures to get hired at a new hospital.

It is absolutely insulting to someone who can prove a substantial history of productive software to ask them to spend hours doing trivial brain teasers for them. If you have open source projects under your ownership or substantial contributorship that the company you are applying for is using and they still treat you like a wet graduate coming off a brief affair with Java Swing you should feel insulted.

> I'm pretty sure doctors

Doctors have to go through over a decade of accredited education and training to even apply to be a doctor at a hospital. It is a restricted and regulated profession. Software development is nothing of the sort.

> absolutely insulting to someone

Wow, this really sounds like entitlement.

You don't deserve anything. Nobody knows how you developed that "productive software". Did you have help from a friend? did you take 10 years longer than someone else would? Did you copy some of it? Did you work alone and would be useless if you had to interact with others and work as part of a team or project?

Sure, when you're a widely known developer with plenty of real accolade (not emails or tweets), then you can expect to be treated differently.

Until then, don't expect to be treated any differently just because you have some code on github.

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