Ask HN: Acceptability of Public Sector Experience for Job Hiring
However, the environment just isn’t conducive to allow the focus to be on development.
This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was relegated back to focusing on simple “webmaster” stuff with a website redesign project even though lots of our custom web apps need to be updated or rewritten.
Finally coming to that realization, and not having the option to simply quit (I’m not that wealthy nor am I in a locale that has lots of software development jobs to begin with)...I decided to buy a house and see if that might help (my small family was outgrowing our rental). And it sort of did for the past 5 months or so since most evenings/weekends were all focused on new house stuff.
Yet, as things have started to quiet down those feelings have all resurfaced again and I don’t feel like I have any real ways to fix them directly in my current workplace.
I peruse the monthly HN Who’s Hiring threads and used to imagine in past years of going back to the Bay Area but I’ve let that option go and definitely would prefer a fully remote company now and have even applied to a few over this past year.
Which brings me to my question...are there any companies out here on HN that can first off provide an excellent technical environment and mentorship, a good Bay Area like salary, a retirement plan, and paid medical benefits and be willing to take on somebody that wants to learn and grow as a software developer every single day?
When applying to companies it always seems (this is only my perception) that what’s being looked for is expertise in specific tech stacks rather than focusing on the potential of the individual and hiring based on that.
I’m hoping my next decade of life can be made a little more interesting by finding this type of company out there that can that potential in me.