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extremely good, my stats have been generally 5-10% response rate for just screenings in the course of over 4 times when i was looking for new roles. each time sent anywhere between 200 - 400 applications. and that's just for calls to get to recruiter or hiring manager

agree. am working somewhere that does the same. we can't find enough of the right engineers to join and it's been a long/slow journey. hiring can be tough for both sides (speaking of those looking for the other side).

i'm confused on the humming part, i've driven by them many times and they're just...large, sorta ugly, buildings. but that's really it. i wonder if i walked up to a building i'd hear the humming. quite surprised to learn that they emit a humming that bothers nearby folks

it comes down to who you follow, posts you comment on, and the type of posts you like. those who say it's filled with (insert some category) indicates that their past activities likely involved those entities or topics in some form.

my feed is made up of rust stuff, databases, system designs, tech meetups, a few founders, OSS stuff, and some companies. even the other day, i came across a post from a dev at planetscale, ben dickens, who said he's going to livestream at a scheduled time to talk about some of the database concepts he recently read in the book DDIA. i watched it, and it was fantastic.

bottom line, i would say what everyone has to say about X, based on their personal experience, are all completely correct, because it becomes (or can become) the environment you want it to be.

to simplify this one step further, i've got a throwaway for anything i don't care or plan on just using once, another for tech related, another for all finances related, and so on and so forth. overall, i'm really just managing 5 emails which all can be viewed or organized on gmail and native outlook (don't judge me) app. quite easy

I personally started out reading blogs and a few YouTube channels. Eventually got curious about one of the newer languages and started taking an hour or two here and there reading more about it.

That turned into trying out simple hello world programs and eventually I found it started becoming way more interesting than my current job and found a job using it.

A lot of my network often read books and attend conferences so there's that too (not my cup of tea but everyone's got their preferred outlet)

This was a fun read. Thanks for sharing your story. Love to see those who go out of the way to set themselves apart because it's who they are at their core. I'm sure whether you got accepted or not wouldn't change a thing on whether you'd try something similar again.

Great journey, seems like you're just getting started. Curious, did you develop this type of drive recently or do you have past experience in hardcore work/study (e.g. u use to be in investment banking or studied pre-med at one point in your life, military, etc)?

i suppose it might have something to do with how they recruit and the folks that are willing to go through with it

https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

if you don't want to click on the link, I've copied most of it below (his second post has a screenshot of the questions!):

"I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years.

Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust.

Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot."

This is only true if you have that kind of attitude.

As a bootcamp dev, with barely 3 yoe, I'm hitting around 10% response rate for recruiter screening (remote/hybrid positions). I put a boatload of hours honing and perfecting my resume + a few other strategies.

I think there's always a way to stand out as long as they don't follow advice/opinions from anonymous forums like HN or reddit. Lots of bad noise out on the internet.

this is actually very nice. also a nice change from every other job site i've seen. i'm not a front end person but it just has a different feel/look. will keep it saved for future use.

I've probably used/gone through over 25 different hiring sites the past few months and most were awful to use or had some glaring flaw. I liked X jobs, but their filtering options are terrible. LinkedIn use to be quite nice, but now it's completed bloated with promoted jobs that you can't find a real job posting until page 5 or 6 (I never hear back from promoted positions, and often they're posted months prior so probably huge backlog).

i really enjoyed reading this post. people are really critical here...

> it took a week or two for me to be more productive than in Go writing bog-standard web backend code.

am i understanding that correctly? you started learning/writing rust and it took 2 weeks to be MORE productive? if so, i'm just in awe at your ability to pick it up so fast.

I'm an jr dev so it's understandable that it's going to take me a lot longer but damn, i've been at it for over a half a year and I wouldn't say I'm anywhere near more comfortable/productive than my previous languages. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it. much respect.

why would this be considered a flagged post? i'm sort of new to HN so honestly asking. I tried reading the guidelines but can't narrow down under what it may be violating. would it fall under political? I saw the author's background and it seems like he works for a newspaper.

Agree. I don't even use the 'for you' feed, and even when I check occasionally I've been able to cater my algorithm so it's purely related to the domain I'm interested in which is rust, startups, and tech news.

But my personal follow feed has all the interesting topics that I follow so it's easy to just stick to that.

> Expanding this abbreviation conveys zero information. It’s a programming language named ML, and if you haven’t heard of it then giving the etymology of the name isn’t going to help.

Honestly kind of shocked to see this type of mentality...wow.

reliability has been the number one trait that always makes me want to work with them again on a project or whatever. don't even care if they were more aggressive or cynical or whatever trait. if they're often (as in always) right about things, I can shrug off everything else.

this is great information actually. much better and specific than anything else I've seen. thanks for sharing

I've read, as a general rule, 2x what you'd be earning if you were in a salary position is a good place to start. You can then factor in reputation, demand, etc, and increase or decrease from there.

If it's extremely technical, I've seen 3x as a starting point and somewhere between 4x-5x in strategic positions at C-suite or similar level.

take it with a grain of salt as these are just baseline values. Everyone is going to greatly differ based on location, industry, level of expertise, $$ of value that it may impact. good luck!

Less popular opinion so definitely not for everyone (not addressing leaks or security, will leave that to others who are far wiser).

If you make $xx/hr in ur full-time and you have taxes beyond simply w2 and 2 or 3 banks for checking/credit/investments, doing taxes on your own through freetaxusa or turbotax may take up an entire afternoon or whole day (unless your one to be very organized like the top poster here, respect). At some point, its worth thinking about how many hours of your time does it stop becoming worth it to do your own and hire a cpa.

For me, once forms like donations, multiple w2s, property, landlord stuff, started adding up, it'd take an entire weekend. Thats 16 hrs of my life, i eventually took the leap and found a great cpa (after wasting $$ on overpriced ones) thru a friend referral and now spend $600 on what takes me less than 2 hours to consolidate and upload forms, and double check deductible expenses.

Whatd i do with all my extra time? Binged 3 body problem. Yes, i wasted it. But a better person would spend it with friends or family or reading or anything more productive than me. If this seems to fit your mold, its worth considering.

Again, not for everyone but good to think about as life progresses for you (or anyone else here).