"Please don't flood us with auto-resumes"
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"Click here to submit to having your resume processed by a bot that will do all the filtering for us"
This might not be you and your company, but it seems to be most of them.
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"Click here to submit to having your resume processed by a bot that will do all the filtering for us"
This might not be you and your company, but it seems to be most of them.
So many teachers, careful not to invite the ire of the armchair critic and ACKCHYUALLY know-it-all, will hem and haw, leading you into analysis paralysis regarding "best practices". That then leads to exhortations to "find what works best for you", acknowledging there are many "right" ways among all the wrong ways.
As I've gotten older, I appreciate teachers like Uncle Bob who provide a specific prescription and says "try it this way". I've discovered I learn faster starting somewhere concrete.
If you don’t have specific experience with some CTOs favorite esoteric API or don’t have experience in the same, specific corner of some insurance or usury industry, your ability to actually engineer solutions is considered irrelevant.
It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about the application of algorithms to data structures to accomplish some user need. Instead, company after company wants to hot glue some service via some API using some framework on some cloud platform. And because the MBA decision-maker can write Excel macros with GPT, we don’t need programmers to build systems anymore. Just wire up foo SaaS to bar SaaS and MVPFailFastLeanAgile our way to success!
Sorry for the rant…
An interviewer last week was straight out of a Silicon Valley storyline, asking a “if you were on an elevator with Marc Andreessen” question and explaining his devotion to Malcolm Gladwell’s 10000 hour “rule”. The week before I got ghosted twice by a company who’s leadership team apparently pays no attention to the Calendly invites they forced me to set up “for my convenience”.
I know I’m capable and do good work, so I’m not having any sort of crisis of confidence. At least not yet. But the process is definitely frustrating.
I know online media is a tough business, but I just can’t imagine the reasoning that has led to such an absurdly painful user experience.
There's the problem.
Organizations whose leaders aren't able to discern your actual value are going to be miserable places to work. You play their games or baffle them with BS. But you don't get to attain any sort of authentic actualization.
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Take my pessimistic commentary with a grain of salt. I'm job searching at the moment for a software manager role and the opportunity landscape is a wasteland of b2b insurance widget companies, usury companies, and AI dead-ends. If you want to build things that help real people, you may have to DIY.
So, as always, it all comes down to how you define intelligence. Because that's difficult, philosophical, or religious, a large portion of the world is just going to treat intelligence as a black box and evaluate its output.
If one evaluates intelligence exclusively based on the value it produces, it's clear machine intelligence is going to eclipse human intelligence in many dimensions. So the people that view people as "headcount" that provide "value" aren't going to have much use for other humans, and soon.
I'm not an AI doomer because I know the machines are deterministic and I believe I'm not. If the machines decide to rid the world of humans, it's going to be because we told them to do so.
The world we have now where everything is built to be thrown away, including software, has had the side-effect of destroying craftsmanship. And I'm becoming more convinced as I age that the world is poorer for it.
It also doesn’t help that “minimum viable” is only one step away from “non-viable”. Every project then becomes like Icarus, testing how close to the sun we can fly before our wings melt.
Define, "off". Who gets to decide what's normal?
In both cases, the fraud was easily made plain when I asked details about their work history. In one case, they claimed to live in the same metro area I had previously lived for 18 years, but couldn’t answer any basic questions about the place. In another situation, they claimed a workplace that was in a community I was familiar with and that was far too small to have corporate headquarters of any type I wouldn’t be familiar with.
After 5-10 minutes of probing, both candidates bailed on the interview realizing they were wasting their time.
They also exhibited some of the other signs as described at the link - no employment profiles on LinkedIn or just a basic profile, names that didn’t match their ethnicity, etc.
I have no evidence or intuition to conclude they were North Korean, as employment fraud is certainly not limited to North Korea. I can’t imagine either of the candidates I spoke to surviving even casual scrutiny, so I highly doubt this kind of fraud results in much success.
Eric Schmidt has a similar approach to his extra-marital affairs.
Right???
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
RIP Jerry. A Step Farther Out is one of my all time favorites.
An aside: are there any other Go books, particularly ones the explore more specific topics, that are recommended? I've read a few that I didn't find very impressive.
It wasn’t just vacation travelers that were affected by Crowdstrike’s incompetence.