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drincruz | 10 years ago | on: On Interviewing Software Engineers

I've noticed that there is a great number of interviewers that do not take the initiative to just be nice. I suppose they just forget that the interview process is a two-way street.

drincruz | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?”

I've had good experience with http://angel.co though you have to be careful since there are recruiting agencies that scour that site as well. In NYC there is also http://interviewjet.com, http://hired.com, and http://underdog.io. These all pretty much have a similar model where you can have be in the highlight with a handful of other engineers sent to a whole lot of companies at the same time.

drincruz | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Python Enthusiast – How to get my foot through the door?

I've met a bunch of folks who changed careers and are doing full-time development now. A fair amount of them went through one of those devlopment bootcamps like Recurse Center (ex-Hacker School). The other folks basically got their foot in the door through networking.

So, I'd say those would be a couple of things to explore.

drincruz | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Software developers, What happened when you were fired/laid off?

Back in 2006 I got a contractor position to work for a large company. So, I gave my resignation at my current job and set things up that I would have one week off between jobs. During that one week, apparently the large company that I was supposed to be a contractor for decided that they no longer needed the extra resources and I am not needed. So, I was out of luck and out of a job.

Since I was already interviewing, my mind was prepped for the whole interview gauntlet. Interviewing full-time definitely helped out since it allowed a lot of time to study and prep. So, it took about another month to find my next role (full-time, not a contractor!).

Interviewing is a job itself!

drincruz | 11 years ago | on: Geeknet to be acquired by Hot Topic

Right, same here; I've always enjoyed picking up great t-shirts from Think Geek. Now, are we looking forward to geek humor shirts sold in a mall?

/me shrugs

drincruz | 11 years ago | on: Be Kind

Great read. I was in a similar boat; reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" changed the way I interact with people a lot.

Sasha Laundy's talk at PyCon 2015 is a great example of how to interact with other engineers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY14Er6JX2s

drincruz | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2015)

Location: New York, NY, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not likely

Technologies: Python, Luigi, Hadoop, Hive, MySQL

Résumé/CV: http://drincruz.com/cv

Email: drincruz at gmail dot com

I am an engineer and have experience building data pipelines with Hadoop and a lot of the Hadoop ecosystem. I like data and solving problems with data. Python is my main go-to language as of late, but I am language agnostic and use whatever tool is right for the job.

I am looking for opportunities where I can work with more data.

drincruz | 11 years ago | on: How Old Do I Look?

Same here; though the guess was nine years older than I am! I am just going to assume that they don't have enough folks that look like me in their dataset.

I'm curious to hear more about the accuracy of their machine learning algorithm though. I'll need to read into that later.

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