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you must be a recruiter for sure

Just apply straight to the companies, recruiters always trying to find whatever benefits them most and it's never in your interest.

Majority of coding tests are extremely unrealistic anyways and you never use any of it in real world. Let's say some fizzbuzz or fibonacci or whatever else. I've only had 2 realistic interviews where they ask you to code some microservice or create some app and present it to them. They also make the excuse "I want to see how you think" but let's be honest in real world you would Google and try out bunch of things until something works for lets say some CRUD app you are building and you barely ever use any "logic" to build something, so don't stress about it.

Don't be afraid to speak your mind to them and ask them whatever you want. They only treat you as a resource so why not treat them the same? Chances are it's some former waitress with 2 months experience in recruiting that learnt all the buzzwords and is trying to test you even though she has no idea about technology and is just trying to make her commission.

literally all recruiters ask you about your salary, does that mean they are all MPC?

That's a good point and illustrates the hypocrisy of recruiters very well. You are right that applying straight to the companies without a middleman is probably best way to go.

How does the politics and whatever people are saying affect your day to day life though? If you can make 10k a month there and buy a flat for 15k, in a few years you don't even need to work anymore. Why would you not even consider living there? Maybe as the old saying: familiarity breeds contempt

I thought this was a counter-thread to the Who wants to be hired one lol

Location: London UK,

Remote: Yes,

Willing to Relocate: No,

Technologies: Back-end Software engineer with 3 years experience in Java 8, Spring, AWS, Python. Looking to move into Data Engineering with Python. Will consider Java roles if they are remote.

Resume/CV/Email: hk.radev <at> gmail <dot> com

Do you think there is even point wasting time on personal projects for passing the screening process when in most cases it's a phone call and based on that I pass or fail the initial screening?

This sounds fair, but in most cases recruiters treat you as just another potential resource. Even when I ask they never send a feedback and if I don't pass the interview they never even call/email. So usually it's me analysing or trying to guess what went wrong after I haven't heard from them in a while and realise I hadn't got it.

I will ignore how untrue that is for now and tell me why is it the same situation in university CS/engineering courses too then, 99% is men? Tech doesn't even make as much money as other industries such as sales/recruitment so doing it only for the money is not a valid point

what you said can be applied to literally any job. Not a valid point when it comes to tech in particular

No idea where you are but I almost never see DS jobs which don't require PhD at least for proper companies.

Only place in industry that requires a PhD is Data Science. How interesting what you do there is depends on the company. In most cases as a Data Scientist you won't be doing much coding. Otherwise if you want to go in any other software development you don't need PhD, because as you said you don't want to be a researcher. That being said its very likely for your 9-5 programming job to be very boring and not what you expected so I suggest you don't completely rule out researching, because it probably won't get any more interesting than that.

I don't think there is anything wrong with gender difference in subjects. Psychology for example is 95% women. Some professions are naturally more interesting for men other for women. Don't see why policy is trying to fore women into tech

no idea how you have CRUD apps interesting, it's always the same thing just different tools/application. The most mindless work I've ever done really

that's very true, every job will eventually become a chore. I guess working on the motivation highs is doable, and then do only enjoyable things on the lows

this plays a huge role yes, but seems to me that finding remote work is quite difficult

don't have any issues with health, already exercise, eat healthy and generally live healthy. It's only professionally unmotivated

our team is very separate and even if you do anything it goes unheard. Also I can't make myself care that much about a project which is not mine. If that's something that benefits me personally yes, if it's something for the company to make more money I can't care less

I agree with this, but when you get drained all day on mindless tasks, you want to go home and forget all that rather then jump straight into work again even if it's interesting own project