Companies have a wide variety of hiring practices.  By making yourself bad at one hiring procedure but good at another, you&#x27;ll select for the companies that are selecting for developers like you.<p>Getting a job is not a numbers game unless you just want any old job and really hate jobsearching.  I&#x27;ve found that making myself unappealing to the organizations that I wouldn&#x27;t actually want to work for has paid off significantly in both financial and job satisfaction terms.