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7. Form an LLC and lie about your experience as you worked for this company for so long. This joker recruiter is an inconsequential gatekeeper, you need to be forwarded to the technical interview that you have to pass no matter how big your open source contributions are.

There are many popular developers whose libraries get used by large organizations, yet cannot get hired by them due to the brainteasers.

All you need is the callback so forget the reindeer games described in this article.

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> Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

this is funny but truth

i have been offered tech interviews after showcasing my extensive portfolio and mentioning i have contributed 6+ years to open-source

wanna make me jump through hoops? f*ck you!

Do you think you should be handed a job? That you shouldn't be treated the same way as other candidates who haven't showcased a portfolio and mentioned open-source contributions?

There are better and worse technical interviews, but a lot of orgs would consider them due diligence, if nothing else. I wouldn't want to be the hiring manager who skipped the technical interview for a candidate who seemed special, if that hire didn't work out.

but i have a visible track record of doing the job you're hiring for and on top of that, open-source contributions which you're happy to use to assess my skill

i'd rather lose a position than participate in cargocult

well partially the reason this works is that under this arrangement (ie. LLC), you work for the company as a contractor, so you have less protections and are easier to terminate. as a result, the company can afford to vet you less, because they know they can fire you relatively easily.

The LLC is just to say youve been working at that LLC as prior experience and are looking to work as an employee for the target company

Its not about employee vs contractor, but the target can be looking for either or

That’s called being an independent contractor. Twice the pay, move projects at the end of a contract etc. this is often done by more experienced candidates.

haha ^ this guy gets it

basically, never be a junior developer

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