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Meta don't hire mugs...
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Some good news for job seekers. 8000 highly skilled Meta employees have just hit the market!
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I am a Scala developer and the language has been mismanaged to the point that commercial users are walking away in droves....
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My advice would be to go all in on Rust. It should stand you in good stead for contracts over the next few years....
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How the hell did you get a Rust contract with no experience and are there any vacancies?...
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I felt the interview went well but two working days have passed with no update so not looking good....
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Final interview tomorrow for a role I have previously performed.
Initial appointment was for a 30 min teams call with the MD.
This was then cancelled and replaced with a two hour on site tech technical interview.
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Where your test cases AI generated? If so maybe your code isn't as well tested as you think it is......
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I have mentioned this before but I worked at a large European bank and their strategy in Canary Wharf at least was clearly based on cheap Indian developers. The dev floor I worked on was at least 70% Indian and half used to disappear at 4:30 in the summer to play cricket....
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It's easiest for them to ghost you.
In my experience if you do chase for an outcome you rarely get told that you didn't get the gig. I suspect in some cases the agent gets ghosted by the hiring firm as well....
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