[adim86]

The developer evaluation process is broken, sometimes because the people hiring you do not even understand what you do and sometimes it is because what the interviewer is testing for is not properly communicated to the candidate for various reasons. The best way to get a job is to be in a developer community where you get referred to jobs and not by job searching online. This is how top-tier candidates get jobs in every industry, referrals, it cuts all the bullshit. So your goal should be to get to that level which means upping your social skills, that being said we all need to start from somewhere.

I wrote a post about this a couple weeks ago, on the disconnection between what an employer is looking for and what you (a developer) think they want. I hope it helps someone

http://blog.adimofunne.com/coding-interviews/

[teekno]

> referrals, it cuts all the bullshit

Referrals get one out of the internet-resume-void, but you still go through the standard interview process, right? I've always seen referrals as a "guaranteed shot at the interviews coding games". Am I doing it wrong?