I'll have to keep tweeting this until it reaches the right people How to break...
I'll have to keep tweeting this until it reaches the right people
How to break into tech
- Read the manual-"Learning Python", etc
- Have a side project on github
- Don't google questions/coding solutions in interviews
- Don't BS, be willing to say I don't know/remember.
- Play with your cards up (e.g. ask if you can google the syntax for mocking a return value)
If you object to one or more of the above, you need to think up an alternate way. Indignation, resentment-aren't job qualifications*
Self-replies
* by indignation, I mean, the common objections like
- "I can code in Javascript, I shouldn't have to demonstrate Python"
- "I don't owe the world my spare time for a public side project"
- "If it can be googled a candidate should need to know it"
- "BS? I don't BS. You're BS"
- "Looking up fizzbuzz on a 2nd monitor is about my right to privacy"
For the speed readers - you get to agree with some of these indignant feelings, but not all of them, or else a candidate becomes unevaluatable.