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April 18, 2021
Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
520 by snakedoctor | 808 comments on Hacker News.
I've been trying to get a job for over a year now. I've interviewed at Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir. Too many to list. I've applied to companies from the whoishiring thread every monthly. workatastartup etc. Always ending with ghosting, or a impasive rejection letter. I tried improving my interview skills. Reading Meyers, Knuth etc. books. Reading advice on Reddit etc. But I still always get rejected. I worked at EA (QA on Apex Legends), and IBM (dev) at 18. Quit due to lowpay/no insurance. Got referrals etc. dropped out my freshmen year at a top 40 college. Was on the cyber security team etc. College was too expensive so I had to dropout. Got a low level customer support role at Amazon. But I only made $15 with no health insurance. Found some flaws within the anti-fraud system at Amazon, and wrote a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system. It was fixed by 1am. Also was concerned about support reps being able to access any customer's data simply by pressing 'bypass' on the security question promt page. I couldn't transfer internally until a year later as well. Would ping your manager each time you apply as well. Have to delete your emails constantly due to only having 1gb email space. Assessment was similar to the one I took for CIA. Cognitive based assessment. I even got ghosted after a interview for a manual labor job at Home Depot. I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies. Got meeting with SVP at Dell, Cisco etc. was fruitless though. Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc. I welcome any and all advice that any of y'all could offer. Even if it's brutally candid. I need a job with decent health/dental insurance. Medicaid is useless. I might be homeless soon. I'm scared, and I don't know what to do. I'm afraid that I'll end up like Bill Landreth. e: dude@member.fsf.org will reply with a different email address.

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April 07, 2021
Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
671 by lmueongoqx | 357 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry. I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible. The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The software I build is useless. Time flies real fast and I have to focus on my passions (which are not monetizable). Unfortunately, I require shelter, calories and hobby materials. Thus the need for some kind of job. Which leads me to ask my fellow tech workers, what kind of job (if any) do you think would fit the following requirements : - No / very little involvement in the product itself (I do not care.) - Fully remote (You can't do much when stuck in the office. Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect.) - Low expectactions / vague job description. - Salary can be on the lower side. - No career advancement possibilities required. Only tech, I do not want to manage people. - Can be about helping other developers, setting up infrastructure/deploy or pure data management since this is fun. I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure these exist anymore, it seems like you always end up having to think about the product itself. Web dev jobs always required some involvement in the frontend. Thanks for any advice (or hate, which I can't really blame you for).

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