Men, fak dis shit. Companies want highly experienced developers, even as Junior dev. Hellooooo, I'm medium-skilled. lol. I started out lacking some skills, then moved onto vendor-locked companies who monopolized and minimized my learning time, ending up learning jack shit in the process. That's how you get stuck. lol.

And on we go.

join a project-based company, not a product-based one. You'll learn A-FUCKING-LOT!!!

It's like working in a dozen companies at the same time (assuming they have over a dozen projects).

Speaking from personal experience :)

@netikras Ah yeah, that was my previous employment - project-based (but either vendor-locked or legacy-locked). I learned a little bit, but not much. Thanks for the tip.

you're taking them too literal

my pitch would be I won't lie to them. I'm sure that happens often for them, heh

@jestdotty That might be true, though there have been times where the employer was rigid and just expected perfection from me from the very first conversation already. The market is tight, tight.

Running into this right now. Getting locked into PLCs and their specific HMI products. Not doing nearly enough learning (or hardcore coding) to maintain my title as SWE. I am also on the job hunt

@DeepHotel Yes, best to invest some hours per day (if possible) on learning and practicing. One of the hardest parts is having a clear and detailed action plan, but you have to have one.

@CaptainRant I had a CEO meme how I was perfect and that guy was never happy... it was like he realized it was Christmas for all those years. his expectations were actually pretty low through them also

still didn't get paid worth shit tho

where's my perfect pay

id fail stupid leetcode bullshit though. I don't even understand the question

but everything I wrote worked flawlessly and never had a bug. isn't that what I'm here for? 🙄

why would I spend time on conning you. would you prefer that? stupid.

I am mean

there was this one time a guy asked me how would I figure out characters in a language without knowing the implementation

my answer was cryptography answer. you look at occurrence of letters and statistically correlate occurrences of char codes in that language to figure out which is which from some sample text you have to process

apparently the correct answer was "chatAt()"

that question is just too stupid for me. I'm sorry what? I can Google that how is that even a question. anyway the guy interpreted me as needing html weekly newsletters a moment later... nevermind he admitted my gitlab contained code all of which confused him. he had like 100 projects to choose from come on

humans just want a peg they understand I think

@jestdotty Negotiation? Hm.

@jestdotty You make me laugh, jestdotty. lol

Yes, that's what most bravado slick-mouths do these days. They spend their time conning management.

@jestdotty For the characters question: so you gave him the framework but he just wanted a quick, ready-made solution? That shows they're the quick and dirty type.

Questions I absolutely hated: the three guys in a room wearing caps question. I thought out of the box and gave them such answers, talking about (meta)physics and they said I thought 'wrong' and just wanted me to give them to cookie-cutter answer. If they ever watched the movie The Internship, they would appreciate someone who thinks outside the box, but no. They all want the saaame guysss, thinking the same wayyy. Sigh. Boring.

I remember I got rejected at two interviews because I was being serious and they were constantly being frat bros. The amount of workplaces now that has frat bros is incredible. Jersey Shore.

HTML weekly newsletters. Lmao. :tears_emoji: 100 projects! That is impressive. :)

Yes, that's what humans want. They don't want people they can't grasp.

@CaptainRant yeah that's fair I should've negotiated but they put me into a different mindset. certainly now I'll be a ruthless shark