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Glen McCallum
Personal blog · glenmccallum.comprogrammingcareer
Glen McCallum writes { glenmccallumcan }, a personal blog at glenmccallum.com about programming and career. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Glen McCallum's posts in threads on landing programming jobs and self-taught developers. The comments give career advice and cite a post about senior developers rejecting candidates, without judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My kitchen sink about stuff
Most-linked posts?
- Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-14
What Hacker News says?
There are enough answers about why these kinds of books are not directly relevant to modern software engineering, but are good for putting said discipline in the context of computer science. That being said, I think you CAN put all that you learn in those books into practice, even if it won't be in your job - try out competitive programming. Try TopCoder or CodeForces, or Google's Code Jam. I think Hackerrank is sim…
Comment linking /2019/05/14/senior-developers-rejected-jobs
on “Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?”Submitted Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs as a story · 278 points
HN discussionKeep fighting, it will be a long battle but worth it in the end. 1. Do some human networking/meet ups. This is completely under rated and the returns are infinite. 2. Upwork.com, it take about 10 proposal before you get some work. It works over time. Here is some inspiration... https://glenmccallum.com/2019/05/14/senior-developers-reject... https://selftaught.blog/self-taught-programmer-jack-dorsey-b... second parag…
Comment linking /2019/05/14/senior-developers-rejected-jobs/
on “Ask HN: Landing a programming job by virtue of a side project only?”Submitted Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted C# Is Dangerous as a story · 8 points
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