Recruitment. Hiring and Freelancing
- Introduction
- Articles in Spanish
- Recruitment Portals
- Recruitment Portals in Spain
- Recruitment Software
- Soft Skills
- Fair Job Offer
- Writing a CV
- Tweets
- Tweets 2
- Tweets 3. Cultures
- Images
- Videos
Introduction
- protocol.com: Developer experience is the next major competitive front in enterprise tech Now that cloud is old news and APIs launch major businesses, the most successful companies over the next decade of enterprise tech will delight their customers.
- tigerabrodi.hashnode.dev: Interviewing software developers Tips when interviewing software developers, find the right candidate
- thenewstack.io: Challenging the Myth That Programming Careers End at 40
- thenewstack.io: This Week in Programming: Can You Feel the Burn? One of the big headlines this week in the world of programming comes in the form of a single statistic: 83% of developers suffer from burnout, according to a study by Haystack Analytics.
- hbr.org: Optimists Are Better at Finding New Jobs
- about.gitlab.com: The Remote Work Report 2021 3,900 global remote workers share the good, bad, and unexpected of the new status quo
- liquidat.wordpress.com: Good bye Red Hat
- devopsonline.co.uk: Robotics and automation to cause anxiety for workers
- wired.co.uk: The Great Resignation is here and no one is prepared Around the world, workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – and bosses are still scrambling to figure out how to keep them
- linkedin.com: Look Before You Leap! Employees are leaving their workplaces in record numbers in a wave named “#TheGreatResignation.”
- forbes.com: ‘The Great Resignation’: Why Gen Z Is Leaving The Workforce In Droves…And What To Do About It
- news.slashdot.org: A Record Number of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs, Empowered by New Leverage
- news.ncsu.edu: Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
- lynnlangit.medium.com: Tech Anti-Interviewing How to avoid tech interviews as we know them
- blog.pragmaticengineer.com: The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers
- hbr.org: Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again
- hbr.org: Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy
- bbc.com: Is HR ever really your friend? Employees often assume human resources is there to help. But given HR really works for the company, is it ever really on our side?
- joshbersin.com: From The Great Resignation To The Great Migration
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation
- about.gitlab.com: How to navigate The Great Resignation
- hbr.org: Stop Hiring for Culture Fit
- medium.com/hackernoon: How to hire a DevOps Engineer
- forbes.com: As Leaders: What Can We Learn From The Great Resignation?
- stackoverflow.blog: The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers? 🌟 Nearly two years into the pandemic, many Americans are reevaluating their relationship with work.
- bbc.com: Is finding a ‘new normal’ in the workplace impossible?
- askamanager.org: the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
- findmyprofession.com: 100+ Questions to Ask in an Interview 🌟
- blog.trello.com: Experiencing Job Dissatisfaction: How To Decide If It’s Time To Quit
- devops.com: Great Resignation Spurs Interest in Tech Certifications
- thewokesalaryman.com: Why people leave even the most high paying jobs 🌟
- sloanreview.mit.edu: Creating Good Jobs Amid a wave of resignations across industries, organizational leaders must identify ways to create better, more desirable jobs that will help them hang on to employees.
- forbes.com: To Avoid Regretting A New Job, Ask These Two Questions During The Interview
- ideas.ted.com: How to find your sense of purpose at work
- 4dayweek.medium.com: What does the work-life balance of a Software Engineer look like? We compare the work-life balance of FAANG employees at Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft comparing their vacation, remote work policy as well as openness to side projects.
- medium.com/walmartglobaltech: How Do You Decide Whether an Individual Contributor (IC) or Engineering Manager Role is Right for You?
- freecodecamp.org: How to Get Ready for a Job in Tech – Tips for Beginners
- computerworld.com: How to get a job in healthcare IT Sky-high demand for tech workers means more open doors for IT pros who don’t have prior experience in the healthcare industry.
- theengineeringmanager.substack.com: How do I progress to the next level in my career? Let’s look at motivation, craft, opportunity and taking ownership.
- blogs.elconfidencial.com: Luca de Meo y Lawrence Stroll: por qué el ego es el peor enemigo del gestor en la Fórmula 1
- blog.robertsimoes.org: Four Wings of a Software Engineer Career paths for software engineers
Articles in Spanish
- blogs.elconfidencial.com: El talento atrofiado: por qué en España escasean los profesionales de alto nivel
- meet-in.es: «Para liderar a largo plazo hay que ser buena persona»
- entrepreneur.com: Las 10 preguntas que debes hacerte para saber si eres un buen líder Descubre si la gente que trabaja contigo te tiene confianza o si debes cambiar ciertas actitudes para obtener mejores resultados.
- hays.es: ‘La Gran Renuncia’: ¿por qué tantos profesionales se están planteando dejar su trabajo?
- computing.es: Retos del outsourcing de servicios IT en España
- magnet.xataka.com: La “gran renuncia” americana, o cómo los trabajadores se han hartado del sistema y están dejando sus empleos
- xataka.com: La Gran Renuncia: en EEUU los empleados están dejando en masa sus trabajos, la gran pregunta es si veremos esto (y cuándo) en España
- es.euronews.com: La Gran Renuncia: ¿puede llegar la revolución laboral de EE. UU. a Europa?
- lainformacion.com: Podcast | La Gran Dimisión da alas a la revolución laboral de los ‘40 y tantos’ En EEUU 4,2 millones de personas han dejado su puesto de trabajo en octubre y se suman a los 4,4 millones que ya lo hicieron en septiembre y a los 4,3 millones de agosto, según el Departamento de Trabajo
- elespanol.com: Qué tipos de jefes hay y cómo trabajar con ellos sin desfallecer: los consejos de Maribel Garben Los hay autoritarios, carismáticos, inseguros… EL ESPAÑOL analiza todos estos perfiles con la experta de ‘employer branding’.
- codingpotions.com: ¿Cuánto cobra un programador en España en 2021?
- xataka.com: La guerra de talento en el sector tecnológico amenaza la viabilidad de muchas pymes españolas: cada vez les resulta más difícil retener a los seniors
- expansion.com: El ‘amiguismo’ en las relaciones de trabajo Si nuestra ‘tribu’ se encuentra bajo amenaza, el instinto nos llama a cerrar filas en lugar de buscar lo que es mejor para toda la organización.
- xataka.com: La Gran Renuncia está ganando terreno en España, pero hay dos barreras: salarios bajos e indemnizaciones
- codigonuevo.com: ¿Debería adaptarse el sueldo del teletrabajo al lugar en el que vivas? Los salarios del teletrabajo podrían disminuir hasta un 15% en función de la ciudad en la que vives.
- lavanguardia.com: Cómo saber si tu jefe es un “ahuyenta talentos” que puede frustrar tu carrera Muchos profesionales están comenzando a reflexionar sobre lo que realmente les satisface del trabajo y a qué tipo de líderes están dispuestos a seguir, porque algunos jefes no saben valorar el talento de sus empleados.
- xataka.com: Me hice funcionario siendo ingeniero: qué me da la administración pública que no consigue la empresa privada
- genbeta.com: Menos de la mitad de los programadores tienen títulos universitarios. Cada vez más desarrolladores aprenden por su cuenta
- genbeta.com: Ciberseguridad en llamas: la presión actual es tan grande que la mitad de los expertos sufren ansiedad y quieren dimitir
- xataka.com: Si no asciendo ni aprendo, me largo de la empresa: el crecimiento profesional como estrategia para retener talento
- businessinsider.es: Los 9 factores que más repercuten en la felicidad en el trabajo, según los trabajadores
- bbc.com: Qué son las “habilidades blandas” y por qué cada vez más compañías se fijan en ellas al contratar
- genbeta.com: Twitter quiere contratar a ingenieros de Microsoft: así es la prueba que les hacen pasar antes de nada, incluso a los senior
Recruitment Portals
- relocate.me Job relocation made easy. Find tech jobs w/ relocation packages
- International Tech Job Search Handbook All-in-one guide to getting a tech job abroad 🌎
- jobs.rekruuto.com: Rekruuto DevOps and SRE Job Opportunities
Recruitment Portals in Spain
- trycircular.com (Spain) The hiring community for tech recruiters and developers with good Candidate Experience guaranteed.
Recruitment Software
Soft Skills
- skamille.medium.com: An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
Fair Job Offer
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Writing a CV
Tweets
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Question for software engineers: Would you leave your job because you didn't like the tech stack?
— David Fowler 🇧🇧 (@davidfowl) April 21, 2021
Interviewing is career speed dating
— R 'Nearest' Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors) June 26, 2021
Job interviews should be conversations, not interrogations.
— Adam Karpiak (@Adam_Karpiak) July 7, 2021
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) July 17, 2021
This is still a common job interview question.
But do you hate it as much as I do and would love to stand up and simply leave immediately?
Don't.
Here is how you can turn this question into a huge win.
A thread. ↓
Did you know that calling yourself something like "Junior JavaScript Developer" on your CV and socials is one of the worst things you can do for your career?
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) July 18, 2021
It immediately strips away a lot of your credibility and can often even close some doors.
A thread.
"Why should we hire you?"
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) July 19, 2021
This is another of those questions everyone interviewing hates.
It spread from traditional jobs into the tech world, and even software developers have to deal with it.
But you can turn this into a huge win. Let's see how.
A thread. ↓
"Why do you want to work here?"
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) July 21, 2021
"Well, I am a web developer, and you are looking for one. Additionally, I need the money."
Some interview questions are stupid. But giving answers like the one above doesn't help.
Let's see how to tackle this one effectively.
A thread. ↓
"What's your greatest weakness?"
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) July 22, 2021
Have you ever been asked this question in an interview and were like, "Yea, uhm, well...I sometimes want to achieve too much?"
This question is tricky, but here is how you can crush it!
A thread. ↓
How I learned web development:
— Jack Forge (@TheJackForge) July 22, 2021
- Tutorial
- Small project
- Tutorial
- Small project
- Tutorial
- Small project
- Tutorial
- Tutorial
- Tutorial
- Tutorial
- Realizing I don't remember anything from the past 4 tutorials.
- Drink until I pass out.
- Tutorial
- Small Project
I regularly get asked which language or framework someone should learn.
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) August 5, 2021
Here is my advice for aspiring software developers, asking themselves the same question, unsure what to learn to enter the industry, as someone who works as a tech lead in the industry.
A thread. ↓
The chances of any candidate matching 100% of the requirements of a job ad for a software engineer are low.
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) August 7, 2021
Give it a shot and apply if you tick at least 40 - 50% of the boxes.
That company might still consider you for a different role.
The interview process is ultra-competitive.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) August 7, 2021
But with proper preparation, it is possible to stand out.
THREAD: 20 common interview questions, what they really mean, and how to nail them:
Interviewing for technical positions is a broken process.
— Santiago (@svpino) December 7, 2021
I believe this is going to change soon.
Getting a job in the software industry we’ll look very different within the next 10 years.
Some thoughts: ↓
People who are fluent on more than one cloud provider - how has this skillset affected your career?
— Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal) December 28, 2021
Does it mostly just expand your job opportunities (ie, you can get hired by a GCP shop or an AWS shop), or do you find yourself working with multiple clouds at your current job?
Anxiety sucks. Live coding interviews están definitivamente en el top 5 de las peores experiencias en mi carrera. 🤦♂️
— Christian Roman 👨💻🏝 (@devnull) February 7, 2022
Aún teniendo +30 apps en portfolio (algunas famosas) he fallado miserablemente en TODAS las FAANG (Mi última entrevista fue hace 4 años) ❌ https://t.co/S49wb5B3bo
Tweets 2
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Working for a bad manager can torch your professional confidence and make you feel like you're incapable of succeeding at your job.
— Phoebe the Career Coach (@betterwphoebe) August 9, 2021
Here's a checklist to help you tell the difference between legitimate criticism you should act upon and illegitimate criticism you should ignore.
Companies optimize for people who can pass the coding interview instead of optimizing for people who can do the job.
— Randall Kanna (@RandallKanna) September 11, 2021
"Wow you've had a lot of jobs"
— alex dee (@aalexdee) September 16, 2021
Yes, I can get a 25% raise for jumping or stick around for the possibility of a cost of living bonus, which is usually less than 5%.
We need to reinvent interviewing in tech. Companies are optimizing for the people who can game the interview but not the people who are good at the job.....
— Randall Kanna (@RandallKanna) September 19, 2021
Hiring in tech is broken: Learnings from our Twitter Space a 🧵
— Alex Jones 🚀 (@AlexJonesax) September 22, 2021
Software eng interviews today: “Invert this binary tree” (because I said so)
— Anna Spysz 💉💉 (@annaspies) September 24, 2021
What software eng interviews should be:“The customer wants you to implement feature X. How would you make it work with the legacy codebase? What’s your time estimate? What security issues could arise?”
"terminated within the hour" -- big companies treat employees as disposable :/ https://t.co/BAgiSBmX4c
— Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey) September 29, 2021
I will never understand why tech companies optimize interviews for a college grad to do better than someone with ten years of experience.
— Randall Kanna (@RandallKanna) September 30, 2021
Ayer me pegué una juerga. Una de las de verdad, de decir "te quiero tío" a los colegas y volver a casa hecho unos zorros. Pero, como casi todo lo que comento, lo importante no es qué hice, sino por qué. Hoy: cómo ha cambiado el covid nuestra relación con el trabajo. Dentro hilo.
— Dani Sanchez-Crespo (@DaniNovarama) October 2, 2021
Everyone is hiring. Everyone is understaffed. Everyone is sticking to the same ineffective and inequitable interview processes. Everyone remains understaffed.
— Tashay (@tashay_g) October 1, 2021
9⃣cloud-related jobs you can do 🔥
— Simon ☁️ (@simonholdorf) October 4, 2021
Cloud Administrator
Cloud (Solution) Architect
Cloud Developer
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Cloud Data Engineer
Cloud Operations Engineer
Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Support Engineer
Cloud AI/ML Engineer
So many opportunities in the cloud ...☁️
This is not just Nigeria, but worldwide.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) October 6, 2021
If you work in IT: you’re usually seen cost center, typically in a “traditional” company.
If you work in tech, you’re typically viewed as a profit generator, and core to the company. Both autonomy, motivation and pay tend to be higher. https://t.co/z579RoAS3I
Unpopular opinion: I don’t think being a 10x engineer is a persona. 10xness is specific to projects and what orgs allow you to do. It’s a combination of having authority and skills to execute. It depends on the momentary situation and it’s not always repeatable. https://t.co/xSMY50OouT
— Jaana Dogan at KubeCon ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) October 10, 2021
If you want to get really good job offers on LinkedIn, I suggest the following neat little hack:
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) November 13, 2021
Add emojis to your name.
A recruiter who doesn't even take the time to write me personally does not deserve my attention at all. pic.twitter.com/9DpltKSqul
Why give your devs time to refactor when you can rewrite the app every three years because no one on the new hires replacing your quitting devs is able to maintain it?
— Gregory Primosch (@GPrimosch) January 17, 2022
A place I worked long term saw a few “rockstar” devs who complicated toolchains, trusted unestablished tech, said Yes lots/shipped early, but left before really having to deal with tech debt they’d introduced. They’re prolly still hopping every 18mnths thinking they’re awesome.
— Kickstink (@kickstink) January 17, 2022
I was the one who had to deal with the fallout of things like these and let's day I hate Ninja/Rockstar devs like hell. Why do things by best practice when you can save 3kb by introducing three new tools in the deployment.... /s
— Nils Hitze (@kojote) January 17, 2022
From a CEO:
— Chris Herd (@chris_herd) October 3, 2021
“Every time a competitor mentions return to office our recruiters reach out to their people. We’ve hired 15+ of their engineers in the last 2 months.”
So easy.
Tweets 3. Cultures
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Irish and German people offering things pic.twitter.com/AoPgWJpK6L
— Killian Sundermann (@killersundymann) October 7, 2021
In cutthroat cultures, people kiss up and kick down. They protect themselves by currying favor with people in power and exploiting those without it.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) November 16, 2021
In supportive cultures, people speak up and support down. They protect people without power by raising problems to those with it.
Politeness is not the same as kindness.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) November 13, 2021
Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.
In polite cultures, people withhold disagreement and criticism. In kind cultures, people speak their minds respectfully.
Esta infografía que publicaba @AurelioMedel en @CincoDiascom es para reflexionar
— Lorenzo Amor (@lorenzoamor_ata) November 6, 2021
-16 millones de nóminas en sector público
-16,5 millones de nóminas en sector privado
Este es nuestro retrato laboral en España👇 pic.twitter.com/0jfPiC8Y8W
The best software engineer I've ever worked with wasn't the best coder on the team.
— Curtis Einsmann (@curtiseinsmann) January 17, 2022
But they were exceptional at:
🔹 Unambiguous communication
🔹 Simplifying; reducing complexity
🔹 Making the right tradeoffs
🔹 Building consensus
You are one bad manager away from hating your job. Don’t let a position at a company define you
— Justin Garrison (@rothgar) January 30, 2022
Always invest in yourself
Keep learning new things
Keep meeting new people
Keep doing what you believe is right
Keep helping others
interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume
— milf twink (@SamAllenX) February 4, 2022
me: yeah that's a carriage return and a series of newline characters, like "\r\n\n" but depending on the language you're parsing it in you may need to escape that sequence
Los salarios para Developers Junior para las grandes empresas tecnológicas:
— Miguel Ángel Durán (@midudev) February 9, 2022
🪟 Microsoft: $154K
🍎 Apple: $166K
🛒 Amazon: $170K
🔵 Facebook: $189K
🔎 Google: $195K
* Incluyen bonus y acciones.
¿Por qué está siendo tan difícil conseguir el primer trabajo en #tech?
— Freddy Montes (@fmontes) February 10, 2022
- ¿Mal proceso?
- ¿Las empresas no quieren entry-level?
- ¿Los candidatos aplican correctamente?
- ¿Hay que hacer networking?
¿Todas las anteriores?
Hablemos.
— MΛRC VIDΛL (@marcvidal) February 16, 2022
💁♂️ Career tip - Your manager plays a MASSIVE role in how successful you can be. Find a manager that supports your careers goals and values.
— Lachlan Evenson (@LachlanEvenson) February 19, 2022
You don't owe any more loyalty to an employer than they show to you.
— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) February 25, 2022
If they're willing to fire you without cause, you have every right to leave without guilt.
If they're not willing to invest in your well-being and success, you have no obligation to invest in theirs.
4) The leadership team's values are INCREDIBLY important
— Brian Bourque 🚀 (@bbourque) February 26, 2022
The less ego at the top, the more everyone wins. Financially, personally and otherwise.
A business wins by focusing on what the customer wants, not someone's ego.
If software engineers are so valuable and in such high demand, then how come we have such obscene interviewing processes? Legitimately curious to know how this happened
— Cain Maddox (@ctrlshifti) March 1, 2022
Early on in your software engineering career, getting promoted to the next level is mostly based on your work. After a few promos, many assume this will be the case going forward.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 7, 2022
Oh no.
Getting promoted beyond this level & as a manager depends so much on your peers as well.
trying to hire cybersecurity professionals and not having success? check:
— meg west (@cybersecmeg) March 14, 2022
- is your job description realistic to the actual job tasks?
- are you asking for the level of talent you have the budget to pay fair market value?
- are you requiring 5 years experience for a junior role?
If this is what your recruitment process is like, you will limit the candidates to ones that are not hirable elsewhere. https://t.co/xwAQNFi2XA
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) March 20, 2022
The Great Resignation is happening.
— Michael Girdley (@girdley) March 24, 2022
What is your best advice to increase employee retention?
The Great Resignation in tech is about three things: Fixing the comp by getting a new grant, finding a place that will actually utilize your potential, and an urgency to elevate off-work conditions.
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) March 25, 2022
Fron a software engineer:
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) April 6, 2022
"Here's the real reason I started looking for a new job.
Build times.
I would spend 40-50 minutes waiting for XCode to complete a build, unable to do anything that time. Everyone told me it's just how it is. It was driving me crazy."
DevEx matters...
What many sw engineers don't realize:
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) April 10, 2022
The majority of jobs do not hire you to write the highest quality code or produce the cleanest architecture.
They hire you to solve their business problems very efficiently. Sometimes this means high-quality code. Sometimes not at all.
Big company tip, before you change roles, ask when the last re-org was.
— David Fowler 🇧🇧🇺🇸 (@davidfowl) April 13, 2022
Working for smaller companies is great. You need to convince three people instead of getting approvals from 15 teams, 7 committees and 5 execs.
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) June 30, 2022
No one will remember:
— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) July 6, 2022
- how many commits you made
- your thoughtful code reviews
- the number of tickets closed
They will remember:
- that *one* time you lost all customer prod data and the company had to shut down
You can’t win ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lack of career advancement and development is now the top reason why people leave their job according to a new McKinsey study. pic.twitter.com/duMKhwtD1n
— Julia Stiglitz (@juliastiglitz) July 23, 2022
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