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by throwbayarea
3390 days ago
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Thanks for sharing your experience. Last time I switched jobs was 2.5 years ago. My domain is pretty stable in terms of technologies, I'm up to date. I had a little bit of everything, mostly linkedin. My "conversion rate" is actually pretty good, I usually get contacted when I apply. I made it to several on-sites even though I failed at a couple of technical phone screens at the very first stage. I'd say I nailed about %50 of my all interviews. Sometimes I'd "score" %100 at a tech interview, leaving plenty of room for me to ask a lot of meaningful questions (well prepared in advanced) to my interviewers. I mean, when you nail their coding questions, answer all their technical design questions and describe your past projects in details, what else do they need? I stay pretty humble usually and try not to come up too cocky. I feel somehow confident about all the on-sites I had and usually got a good feedback right away (during the actual interview). Though, as I said, none of them led to an offer which is pretty amazing. Also, I went through 2 jobs from 2 friend referrals. Failed on both. I also noticed that companies are super messy sometimes. I would apply for a position and in the middle of the process they would switch me to another position thinking it would be a better fit for me. I end-up talking to a new set of people (WTF??) who haven't heard about me nor selected my application in the first place. I feel like a bag of potatoes.. So it puts me in a weird situation where they're like "well, let's talk to him at least see what's up" without really carrying too much since they're already talking to a bunch of candidates. At the end they email me saying I'm not a great fit. Like... dude... I'm a bit speechless right now to be honest... |
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