Actually my current and prior are both submit resume and interview path. I don't know anyone where I live so I had to go a quantity approach and just blanket apply to all dev jobs I can find.But I agree I hate resume filtering. One recruiter told me to add keywords like Angular and MVC to my resume because some HR will auto dump your resume if its not there.
In 17 years, I have been hired 7 times. Every last one of those offers started with me submitting a resume to a company where I previously knew nobody, or at least nobody with any ability to influence the hiring process.
I have also tried the "know somebody" tack. None of the people I have ever met has ever been able to even get me an actual interview anywhere, with the sole exceptions of my father, who has thrown roughly $1500 worth of business my way over my entire lifetime, and a former boss, who was laid off at the same time as everyone else, yet still managed to toss me $500 in contract work for his one-man startup as the emergency job search stretched out into the second week.
On a gross revenue basis, looking good enough on paper to start a conversation, and spamming out those resumes to anyone even considering hiring someone new has been roughly 400 times more valuable than knowing other people.
But my entire career has also unfolded far from the SF-Oakland-SJ metro area. We don't exactly get a lot of "meetups" around here. I'm not even exactly sure what a "meetup" is. Maybe like a geek night where everybody talks shop all night instead of having fun?
Also, not a single professional recruiter has ever successfully placed me in any job, nor have they even been very good at getting me interviews. They have been worse than useless, in that every second I wasted on them would have been better spent digging up my own leads and sending my resume myself.
All that said, I hate, I hate, I hate the current software professionals' hiring process and the trends in it that I have been able to observe from my end.
Overnight Oats is a great recipe for breakfast and is prepared in 5 minutes. It won't hit the $2.15 mark and it's roughly ~400 calories, ~40g healthy carb, ~40g protein, and ~10g fats, ~10g fiber, but its easy to make. (All depends on the brands you use to make it).
Toss 2 scoops protein powder, 1 cup almond milk, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 1/4 cup steel cut oats in a jar and shake, refrigerate. Add fruit if you like.
Cook with your wife. Make it a date night and stay in, cooking together, or with family too. I did this with my gf last week and we had a blast while we made pasta from scratch.
But I will say this can't be done often. We try to cook together at least once a week, but more often than not we eat out cause its fast and we both work long hours + long commutes.
I love Barnes and Noble, however, one of my issues with BN is that they are mostly out of the way and not near malls where they'd get a lot of traffic.
Another issue I think is absolutely mind boggling is that their online prices are not what's in store; you can't even price match their website with their own in-store pricing, let alone price matching with Amazon.
I generally browse BN and then pull up Amazon to check pricing there, and either order the book with same-day delivery/next day or buy the e-book. Its still cheaper to pay for same day/next day than to buy it in store.
That sort of behavior is what is killing retail. If you're going to browse the showroom it is more than a little backhanded to then buy from an online competitor with less overhead.
If I find a product I want to buy in a store I will buy it there. More often than not, though, retailers don't have what I need and I end up forced to buy online anyway.
I'm in no way obligated to buy something in the store, especially when they have obfuscated policies regarding pricing. How can you justify a higher price in store when you have a lower price online and your competitor has a lower price and same day delivery? I get 25% BN discount from my gf's teacher discount and stuff is still more expensive than their own online pricing.
If I find a significant price difference, I'm going to buy it online. However, I will go out of my way to purchase at small business because there are benefits to that.
The higher price is because they have to pay for employees to serve you, HVAC and lighting so you can be comfortable and see at night, the capital investment for everything needed to run the store, plus local taxes. All for the convenience of letting you see the product first hand.
Taking advantage of all those things and then robbing them of a sale isn't fair to the business trying to stay afloat. Comparison shopping between proprietors on equal footing is fair. Not between brick-and-mortar and a warehouse operation with huge economies of scale.
They could sell stuff online for just as cheap as Amazon. They could offer delivery to stores so you can pick it up there and save on shipping. They could do lots of things. We're not obligated to support their failing business plan. I always attempt to buy local first, and do if it's the better option. Not my fault if local stores make it difficult.
> That sort of behavior is what is killing retail. If you're going to browse the showroom it is more than a little backhanded to then buy from an online competitor with less overhead.
It makes perfect sense; there's definitely a tragedy of the commons involved, but its created by the store owner giving away their compelling differentiating offering rather than selling it.
OTOH, its hard to see what the viable alternative is.
I've seen "malls" mentioned a few times in various comments. Can you elaborate on why you think B&N should be in malls, given the current poor state of malls in the US? Many are seeing financial troubles, or shutting down completely.
It's anecdotal for me, but where I am in Illinois, there is a BN in Old Orchard Mall which is a Simon property and is a high end mall (Nordstrom, Bloomingdales etc...). It gets a ton of foot traffic and is packed on the weekends. There is another BN in Schaumburg, IL, an affluent suburb about 20-30 minutes away and it is not in a mall. I used to live there and go to that BN a lot, it was very quiet and empty unless they were running an event.
Your behavior is not true to someone who loves Barnes and Noble. You are using them as Amazon's showroom. At best, your actions say that you enjoy the showroom BN provides but you are unwilling to pay for it. Great way to drive them out of business.
Sounds like you love Amazon, not Barnes and Noble, and you're willing to help Amazon drive its competitor out of business--all while visiting the competitor and using his inventory. Delicious irony.
Maybe you are right, but I do enjoy going to BN and I do buy stuff there from time to time. My gf is more willing to buy in store than I am, probably because of the nature of books she purchases (kids books for school) versus my books (Tech) which are significantly more expensive.
I was tasked with building a WPF project with no prior experience. I jumped on pluralsight for a lecture on wpf and mvvm, then started building the app. I realized I could use a framework for mvvm but I've learned a lot by doing everything from scratch. At one point I realized I needed some plugins for help (INotifyPropertyChanged, I'm looking at you) and started using them, which has made my life considerably easier. Build the project, use what tools are necessary. Don't let tools dictate your project. I've been down that hole a lot with JS. Gulp, Webpack, Grunt, Node, Express, Babel, ClojureScript, TypeScript, and it goes on and on and on.
Agreed, my girlfriend's school implements iPad use and she has none of these problems. They have a single IT person in the school who setup all the iPads. My gf setup guided access on her 30 ipads to lock them down and the kids only use them for 1 or 2 lessons max. The majority of her teaching is down without iPad use. A lot of the author's issues seem to be a lack of awareness on technology, how to use iPads, and even proper classroom management.
"They have a single IT person in the school who setup all the iPads"
This leads to an important side issue that people outside the .edu system don't understand, that you release a product for kids that is web based, my daughter's teacher can roll it out to the kids in about 10 minutes using a laser printer to make a QR code of the URL for the kids to scan and then do math drills or whatever, literally during a single recess period. In comparison, if you wrap the same exact content in an app, its going to take at least a year to get the app approved by the technology council and possibly installed, or possibly not if another teacher makes a stronger argument for using the limited storage space for video recording kid presentations of learning or their pet app or who knows, assuming you have the political clout, time, and motivation to ram the new app thru the system.
Educational apps are dead. Educational websites are where its at.
That would depend on your instatution, all of the private schools I work with let the teachers find new apps and we can push them to the iPads pretty easily. Budget has been provided with a little extra so we can buy apps during the year if needed, and we do.
I agree, I think its weird. I went into one of their stores and the employee was working with someone else. Since I can't buy anything, I just walked out.
I did end up buying their clothes on their website and the cost was pretty good after coupons. The clothes themselves are awesome and fit me perfectly.
I also like their website, especially the filter they have, it's very responsive.
