Discussion on: As a developer, what problems do you face during job search? 🤔

Biggest problems I've had is bad recruiters. Problems with them have included:

• being offered an opportunity for a job that was both not my language and 100 miles from where I said I wanted jobs
• emails to me but addressed to the name of a famous author because in the early days of my CV I'd included some authors I liked reading
• being accused of hiding being in prison (for the record I've absolutely never been in prison!) because they'd edited my CV (telling me they hadn't and wouldn't do such a thing) and removing a few years of work history! They then tried gaslighting me and saying that accusing me 3 times of that was a joke.

Then bad interviews:

• in one they'd messed up and started interviewing me for a different position than I went in for
• another got annoyed when I said I liked to think of myself as a stakeholder in what I worked on (if I don't enjoy the work, why would I be there, of course I'll want to input and go above and beyond), and then in the paired programming test, the interviewer just spent half the time on his phone

To these people, I say, you get what you put in.