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Vincent Milum Jr

Its always crazy in my mind reading other's salary information. I've been stuck making less than 10k-usd/yr while living in the Seattle area simply due to the fact that nobody has been willing to hire me.

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rhymes

Hi Vincent, it's quite strange that with the experience you have you can't find a better paid job.

Have you gotten any feedbacks from these interviews you conducted? Do you have any idea about the "why"?

Are you applying for remote jobs as well?

Have you thought about moving?

I'm not American and I don't know very well which tech companies are in your area (apart from Microsoft and Amazon I guess).

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Vincent Milum Jr

I wrote up a small overview of this the other day, actually. TLDR the hiring practices in tech in this country as a whole are entirely flawed, despite the constant outcry against them.

twitter.com/DarkainMX/status/10729...

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rhymes

Yeah, I think you should start avoiding companies with those hiring practices at a whole.

I would focus on companies that value experience over whiteboard interviews.

Checkout remoteok.io/ - weworkremotely.com/ - creativemornings.com/jobs and especially @lynnetye 's keyvalues.com/

Good luck!