How did you do it?
Hacker News - By far the best reply rate. I think I got an initial phone screen for about half the places I applied to.
Work at a Startup - I like that it was easy to apply to numerous startups. I also liked that you could put in a statement about why you wanted to work at a company. This also had good reply rates
LinkedIn - The first thing I do is set my LinkedIn to looking for work. You never know when a recruiter will reach out to you with a gem, yes you will have a million amazon recruiters but I think it is worth it. I also browse the positions listed on there. Ok reply rates
Indeed - The lowest reply rate but they do have the most jobs available. They have also gotten much better with remote positions in recent times
As for the job I found, I actually can't remember where I saw the opening. I think it was on here. The process was actually pretty good. The whole process from application to offer took just under one month. It consisted of an initial phone screen with their recruiter, a phone interview with the hiring manager, and two days of virtual on-sites (2-3 hours). For the technical portion of the interview, they give you the option to walk through a project you have already done or a take home assignment.
my method is something like spray and pray, ping friends to see if their companies are hiring, target certain companies if they doing something interesting, put myself out there on HN and Linkedin, etc.
fuck. me.
6+ weeks now of going hard core, and nothing yet.
i bail on quite a few possibilties, but i've also been bailed on quite a bit. like, 2 of 3 people on a video call are cool with me, but one hates my life. what? i'm def hate-able, but if you're so sure you hate me before we even get on the phone, why waste my time?
some companies have pretty big processes. i talked to stripe recently. i was like what's your process like?
they're like...
1. one hour live coding session
2. homework
3. 4 or 5 one-on-ones
4. something? might be nothing here.
5. offer
6. ref check
the live coding interview is a bit over the top, i think, but at least they have to waste their time too for that hour. but an hour? it takes you an hour to know if someone can code? you have to live code to know if somebody can code?
this is for an advanced tech support role, so while it's not 'sustaining', presumably it'd be heavy w/ api and whatever tools/languages/environments, thus...the need to spend 60 minutes typing in front of someone. i think that's awkward and overkill, but if one of the purposes of interviewing is establishing fealty/submissiveness/desperation, then it makes good sense.
then the homework. i just added this note to the top of my resume the other day, to help me weed out homework companies -- prob after stripe got my resume, unfortunately:
No homework, please – happy to spend time on the phone with your tech screener. My AWS Cert is here. My side projects are here. My public github repositories are here; access to private repos and university transcript available upon request. Thank you.
eh.
my resume is trash, as i suspect a lot of wantrepreneur resumes are, but this job hunt thing is not so fun when you actually need a job.
i still think there is some better hiring model out there that we haven't gotten to yet. unfortunatley, it's probably called "a real social safety net" -- so we don't have to worry about that happening in America anytime soon.