Experiments running concurrently at Lambda School: 1. An iOS house paid for by Lambda in the heart of San Francisco 2. $1,000/mo living stipend for iOS students 3. $1,000/mo living stipend for any track 4. House for women mobile devs in San Francisco 5. Should announce next week
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1) A 45 year old, I gather, who came in as a novice and whose age wasn't known to the employer in advance. 2) But the invitation to comment is appreciated. Nothing negative was intended. It's just that... all this talk every day about new people... what about the experienced?
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I’ve never met an experienced engineer who couldn’t find a job. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough.
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No, you're not. I've met quite a few of them. One startup in S.F., same building as Twitter, offered me a job. There was no job. They set up a test that was actually a 3-day project to rework their core software for free. That is how it goes for old coders without connections.
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Some of the old coders are desperate. They don't understand what's happening or where to turn. They learn soon enough that they're expected literally to disappear. I'm not as naive and will survive. But there is an entire layer of the tech world that you don't know about.
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Makes me ask how these older coders perform on coding tests such as those on hackerrank or triplebyte. Are there not ways that their knowledge can speak for themselves?
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Speaking for myself, one firm put me through a 2-hour test and said that I was rated at the top for "Just in Time Learning". That issue isn't the point. The point is that firms are allowed to say "We're looking for somebody fresh out of school" despite this being illegal.
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@CyberCoders does it differently. I f*cked their General Counsel Rebecca, BTW, and her replacement David.#CyberCoders says "We'd like people with 4 to 7 years of experience". If you say "What if I have more years?", their attorney threatens you and you must f*ck him or her. -
I'd like to be clear that I used to be quite frightened of the world. It had to do with abuse discussed on Haggis Hell. But fear and passivity were burned out of me in 2012. I remain kind. Austen has met me. He'd remember an older couple. I was trying to be supportive of them.
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