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   d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:16 JST d
   >back in the day
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:13 JST djsumdog

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     • JulioReich
     When I was younger I wanted a lot of big names on my resume. I worked for TVA and BlueCross and GE .. and as I got older, I realized the big names were all shit. Some of the best stuff I learned was at smaller shops (that paid better too). I remember I had a friend who was interviewing for Google in Sydney (I think around 2014 or so) and I was like, "Why the fuck would you want to work at Google?"
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:14 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @sapphire @JulioReich @deprecated_ii literally there are a lot of bugs whose goal is to get hired at a big name tech company because if you have a big name tech company on your resume, even if you were a SRE or similar just rebooting the damn servers when they crashed based on a checklist, you've got that shit on your resume.
     
     The problem is, to get into these companies (Google in particular) you also need to be at a university notorious for a high minority population (like a "black" university), H1B, or from a elite university. Then they'll softball ya. At least that's how it was before Musk Twitter sent the signal that you can actually fire dead weight now followed by the economy going to shit. Fun fact: Google's best employees were from mid-tier universities who could pass the harder questions.
     https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/11/googler-internal-project-white-asians-likely-succeed/
     
     I've heard of people getting slick interviews at Google and MS for going to the right university.
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:15 JST sapphire

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     @JulioReich @deprecated_ii just copy the whole job application in 2 point white font on white background into the footer of your resume so the machine they use to auto reject you will think you’re a superstar
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:15 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @sapphire @JulioReich @deprecated_ii how to get a tech job interview from a redditor:
     
     "My takeaways from this experiment is that applying for Software Engineering positions is very similar to the golden rule of Tinder:
     1. Work at FAANG
     2. Don't not work at FAANG"
     
     https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/
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     JulioReich (julioreich@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:16:16 JST JulioReich

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     @deprecated_ii Just look them in the eye and give them a firm handshake vibes.
     That being said, list your personal projects as experience on your resume, paper pushers love that shit.
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:29:30 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @djsumdog @JulioReich @deprecated_ii @sapphire yeah people I know who work at google either are like that linkedin girl living life like Patrick Bateman with a fake email job or similar (vid related) or hate it.
     22 year old Chicago girl in LinkdIn has the cushiest job on planet Earth.mp4
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:34:25 JST djsumdog

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     Man most Chicago jobs are not like that at all. It's a fucking fintech nightmare city. Companies will fire you for not putting in 70 hours a week, or expect you to come in before 7:30am before the market opens. I kept my head down in a devops position at a mortgage company and outlasted literally everyone in my team including a director and a manager (3 years and I was the most senior person on my team).
     
     She mentions West Loop .. I use to live right next to it. There are some things I miss about Chicago sometimes ... but thankfully the feeling passes when I remember the rest.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:53:20 JST djsumdog

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     • JulioReich
     It really is about who you know. If someone knows you're a good engineer (and their bosses think they're a good engineer), it opens a lot of interviews. A classmate of mine got me in to my first real dev/Java role, a backpacker I met in Malaysia recommended me a devops role I was at for three years in Chicago, and an old roommate got me my current gig in (which he sadly got laid off from a few weeks after I was hired 😰)
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 11:53:22 JST Birdulon

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     @djsumdog @Pawlicker @JulioReich @deprecated_ii @sapphire As much as I liked working for small biz, I hit a dead end on it after the second one and nothing I learned there helped with cold applications, so it does sting seeing others succeed with power words in their job history.