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Recent content by Robinho
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State of the Market
Personally i prefer practical tests to being asked dumb questions where i have to feign enthusiasm. As long it's applicable to the job though. A lot of those LeetCode tests have no relevance to anything i have ever written in my career.- Robinho
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It's taken a lot of the fun out of coding though. Sure reducing boilerplate is good to an extent but sometimes just bashing out code like that on autopilot gave you some mental downtime. I find most of my day is just configuring, deploying, PRs and issue fixing now. AI is doing most of the...- Robinho
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State of the Market
I absolutely despised networking and it completely tripped me up after coming out of a 2 year contract at the start of COVID. Everything had moved to LinkedIn, a site which i had about 5 connections on.- Robinho
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State of the Market
I'm probably being stupid really. Nobody's going to posting jobs a week before Christmas.- Robinho
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State of the Market
Is contracting dead these days then? I've really just been freelancing the last couple of years. But i just had a look on Jobserve to see if i could land myself a big juicy money spinner, but i don't think there's even been a single job with my skillset been posted. Has everywhere just...- Robinho
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State of the Market
I remember the heady days when 2 interviews were unthinkable.- Robinho
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Contracted Hours vs Expected
Just work your contracted hours until they fire you. In the meantime look for other gigs.- Robinho
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State of the Market
Finally got round to duffing up my CV as i hate my current gig, then had a look on JobServe Holy mother of Mary it's utterly dead- Robinho
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Spain digital nomad visa
What's the best strategy for getting a remote gig where you intent to work from abroad... 1) tell the agent/client up front you want to work from abroad 2) don't say anything unless or until asked 1 is more honest, but the concern is it's just an easy excuse to filter you out in the early stage.- Robinho
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State of the Market
Just glanced today as i'm bored of my current gig Looks rather grim- Robinho
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Under experienced, under qualified for a role
This is the part where you tell us the market share...- Robinho
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Tips on going direct?
Sorry to be clear my scenario was a fictional world where agents didn't exist and there was perfect information about gigs and contractors available and their skills. Of course we don't live in that world and that's why agents exist. Both sides do essentially pay for and benefit from the agents...- Robinho
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Tips on going direct?
Yes the client is billed. However if there were no agent fees, supply/demand dictates that companies would hire more contractors - as they are cheaper. And by hiring more that would put upwards pressure on rates, until it settled somewhere in between and both sides are getting a slice of the...- Robinho
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Just got a nice direct role at a music streaming company. 100% remote and can work from abroad. Which is good as i have a dual citizenship and am now a tax resident of a country with no income tax. Very pleased. Angular 10 too which i've long wanted to get commercial experience on. Flexible...- Robinho
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Tips on going direct?
The burden of the agent fee is shared between the client and contractor. In a world where everyone had perfect knowledge of gigs and contractors available, contractors would charge more and clients would be saving money as well.- Robinho
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