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by logfromblammo 3497 days ago
More than I can say for my BS CS plus 17 years.

As I have had 7 different jobs for 12 different employers (due to mergers/acquisitions, by the most generous count), and have needed to run the entire interview gauntlet all 7 times, my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.

But damn. For $120k/year, in the region where I now live, I might just put Expo2 to whiteboard one more time.

I get tired of justifying my own existence to people who are only pretending to care that I am not actually a human-form automaton to crank out code. In short, the software-industry interview has always been stupid, but it has also become increasingly arrogant and rude. Is it really worth it to put up with the crap-on-you parade for a few more measly dollars in the paycheck?

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>"my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.:

I feel exactly the same way, even though the existence of those interviews is probably the main reason I was able to get into kinds of companies I did.