Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
Hiring is entirely broken. I don't think anyone is listening to developers. I took some data about this (tracking pixel in a Developer Auction profile), but someone did an even better job than me and posted in these comments:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730843" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730843</a><p>I want a company that treats me with dignity and respect, even before and during the interviewing pipeline. How a company treats people during interviews is a huge indicator of how they treat people in general. I would never subject my friends or family to the hiring practices that programmers are exposed to regularly. Be proud about how you hire. Otherwise this weighs heavily when I reject your offer.<p>I want a "1-hour guarantee" that I'll receive your considered offer after one hour of interviewing, and not multiple hours of hazing. Otherwise, I'll stick with consulting, thanks. Maybe there should be a site that compares the interviewing pipelines of different companies, and then you can focus on the ones that aren't entirely offensive.<p>Also, it would be awesome if one of you would actually look at my git repositories before the interview and, you know, actually read my code. No, looking at a "repository summary" doesn't count.