I went through a 8hr coding interview with blizzard and less than 12hrs after than mind-numbing nightmare they called and said "Thanks but you are not qualified" for an associate level python developer....What a waste of my time that is why I don't apply to companies large or small anymore I do my own thing.
Hahaha! Sounds like my boss that required us to deploy a feature in prod in the 3 days we had before holiday vacations that involved... timezones! I worked two 16h shifts in those 3 days. Madness. I’m surprised the feature works well and no one complained about it! (Oh and all of that without a single test across the web app, backend and inference engine)
I had an interview where my task was to create several React components to sort calendar data into visual data which varies in length based on how long the event is. The events should also be draggable and support manual resizing based on data being changed, or manually adjust. I ghosted them almost instantly.
I hate the "tests" when applying to companies. They are asking for free work from you, its so blatant. If they didn't know about your skill level from your portfolio, they shouldn't waste your time and work.
You can add piece of code to your application, which would allow you to destroy the software and their infrastructure remotely, if they don't pay you after completion.
Ok, that Sh* is funny and creative: "Reverse Financed Internship". Hey, for anyone watching as a Data Scientist or Data Engineer DO NOT talk to or work with EOIC, total SCAM
I've seen legitimate internships in Australia by registered non-profit organisations offering reverse financial internships. It's more common than you may think.
This is one of the crappiest jobs I've seen. I had a job that seemed fine the first 7 months but then it got progressively shittier and looking back, there were a lot of things that were wrong, there were no code reviews, we'd test our own code and while I appreciated the little supervision, the last 6 months or so they would give me 0 feedback and then one day I was let go because they "didn't like my work the last 2 months" but I was never told anything, it was always "yeah, fine".
As someone who writes game code, I know it can get very sloppy if you don't have a-lot of experience and good programming patterns. No code review is a awful idea and asking a much more experienced people for tips and reviews is very good for learning.
Regarding the "avoid meetings" I used to be a project manager working out in the field. Once a week all the project managers who were working on the same project would have a 1 hour or so conference call. It was basically just "hey we noticed this thing is messed up and this is how we fixed it, so if you notice your thing is messed up like that you don't have to spend the 40 minutes figuring it out because we already did that". Just an exchange of solutions. It saved every crew countless hours over the years.
I have once applied for a position at Harley Davidson as a web dev and when I got through the terms and conditions, it was a holy shit moment where I have never clicked "I decline" so fast. They want to collect literally every single piece of info on me, and I mean EVERYTHING. Including my medical record, my mother's maiden name, my bank account number, my health record. It was about 6 pages of shit they wanted from. It was fucking terrifying. Yeah no. I took screenshots of the whole thing.
This is why I transitioned from a developer to a systems administrator after 2 years out of college. It's much easier saying "I'm gonna write some scripts to manage this or monitor that to make my job easier." I'm responsible for everything from start to finish. It doesn't matter how it looks because it's all internal. I decide when it's complete and ready to deploy.
What happens if you're a Veteran at Hola and you make a mistake and they have to fire you but they also can't let you go? Mindbreaking. Cheers from Argentina.
For a while I thought that your channel was too negative. Now I actually appreciate things like this considering I will be in the job market soon. These scams are horrible.
I imagine the first day of working on site at Hola would be something like this HR: Ok well now that your desk is all set up, go ahead and commit that code. I’ll be in my office if you need me. Me: Uhhh, I have no idea what this library does. Let me just slack the Sr.Dev Sr.Dev: f**k off
You are very kind to share your industrial experience with beginning beginner -- the tricks and traps -- of what and how. Hopefully the job market is both consistent (no self-contradiction) and transparency (no company options)...
Ah yes, the classic "reverse finance internship", something that definitely exists. I feel like I'm actually in the streets of Brooklyn being sold a Rolex from a trench coated man in an alley way just by reading that. Hola thinking they're a FANG company with the amount of interviews you gotta go through, my god
Make a review of crappy companies like Revature and TalentPath, where they train you and if you get fired within the first year you have to pay them around $20,000.
At least there are a lot of jobs out there for anything dev related. Even after filtering out the garbage. Try being an IP attorney in America right now. Today, I listened in on an interview with a friend who has been out of work for a while and the law firm hiring stated they had reviewed 2000 resumes and still hadn't found the right person. Plus they forced my friend to watch their corporate culture video before the interview. I wish could share the peak level of cringe I witnessed. The video virtue signaled the importance of inclusive diversity and "progressive togetherness." And then they asked my friend for their thoughts on the company's "culture". Meanwhile they're all pale Anglos with 1 token woc/poc.
I think the idea of a pair session in which you pair with a senior dev to squash a 0-1 story point bug couos be an excellent way to get an intro to the code. But I'd really ensure that it was either a product they were familiar or your documentation makes it a very straight forward debug and fix.
Been watching these garbage programming videos while looking for job listings, gonna finish my B.S. for Comp Sci later this semester and it's legitimately making me depressed because most of the listings I find are offering around the same as what's being called garbage... and worse yet it's in Canadian, which is 25% under the USD atm...
seeing just how long and ridiculous that encyclopedia of an employee handbook you read was, makes me think that there are more than a few people working there that are consistently bored and are constantly writing shit to make themselves look busy
Recruitment should be no more than 3 interviews. 1) Prescreening phone interview with HR. 2) Phone interview with managers. 3) In-person interview. This way no one's time is wasted.
I remember back in 2004 when the job scam of the day was done by Online Colleges like Phoenix. What colleges like Phoenix would do was that would post a job online and then you would always get a call from a recruiter and they would only help you out if you promised to sign up for the online college or do an orientation for the college. The help provided would by literal job links to other fake jobs that were online colleges.
@@loek1455 thankfully i don't live there but minimum wage is at about 2,3€ per hour. But because of the drop in value of the lira people getting minimum wage can buy much less. And also unpaid overtime is very common
@@1yasin6 that sounds pretty low. I dont know how high the living costs are in turkey, but coming from germany this sounds really low. I'm in my appreticeship and earn about double of that, and thats already very low in germany compared to actual jobs
They sound like the type of company that takes joy in raking candidates over the coals. 30 min long interview with one developer and then a 60 min long interview with the senior developer. I bet you that senior developer eviscerates most candidates that step into his office. Wondering how many developers crawl home shivering after going through their interrogation. The worst part is, I bet they know ahead of time that 90% of their candidates won't make the cut, yet they take them all the way through the process...because they can.
I once was interviewed for a student job in Hola's HQ in Israel. It didn't go anywhere but I indeed felt some atmosphere of tension and authority there. After reading some reviews (mostly in Hebrew), indeed many say that the treatment there to developers is very bad. Someone even said that he got reprimanded because he sent an e-mail with one or two unnecessary blank lines.
Job listings like this give an introvert like myself severe anxiety when it comes to getting my first dev job. I feel like I'm going to be strung up by my feet the first time I miss a semicolon.
@@nauxsi It's expensive. There was one company called BTC in Chesington South I had interview with for a one month training course on becoming an electrician. It costed £9000. Glad I was not stupid enough to take out a personal loan.
Another scam job ads in my country Training Centers post the perfect job for junior IT (Dev, Ops, DevOps, Security, ...). and in every corner you will find a copy of Microsoft "partner" Certificate
LoL at that 3 weeks, that's exactly what happened to me in my 1st programming job, I heard it used to be 3 months probation then it became 2, when I entered the fray, it was at that time the probation was now 1 month, ofcourse I didn't make the cut as you had said I have to set my environment and know what's going on and what's the best practices, it's definitely not as crazy nor as paranoid as HOLA, I felt really down for weeks.
It comes to me as a surprise that a software company won't review your code until after committing or deploying. That is the just the most ridiculous and crappiest way of working I have ever heard. The whole point of reviewing the code is for the developer to learn something (especially as a junior) and for the code to be in good shape for deployment in a product.
On-call rotations is a common thing in companies that run web services with millions of users. For example, Facebook has those. You basically do it in shifts, so you need to be on-call for several hours once in two weeks or something like that (and in that DNA they mentioned such shifts). So you don't have to be available all the time, not even close to that. On-call exists because if anything breaks, company looses tons of $$$ every minute (because a lot of users). Everything else you told about Hola is rubbish, I'm starting to realize why their VPN doesn't work for me here in Russia.
i remember one employment agency asked me to pay for fingerprinting for the federal clearance. but it ended up a waste as they told me they won't be doing the clearance because the client wasn't interested. and then stopped taking calls and emails after trying to followup.
Out of college a data analyst (most computer science related positions) in a relatively expensive area should be starting at at least 75k with employee benefits. Without benefits then like $45/hour. Even Costco pays $20/hour
Reverse paid internships may sound shocking, but where I live, the 'IT companies' will have new and even experienced junior devs sign a 'bond' or agreement that forces the developer to work for the company for a year or two, even though it's against the law to put a constraint on someone's trade and profession. This shitty practice IS the worst thing a company can do to new guys. My current company has such time bond that they made me sign for a year in last July, but I'm planning to leave in Feb for a course anyway. I'm not afraid to fight back!
Congrats on the raspberry pi! I'm currently putting one in a gutted, outdated, digital frame and making a wifi connected, self-updating digital frame. My next project was going to build a desktop arcade cabinet. And I'm toying around with the scary idea of making my own touchscreen car radio
Solve it yourself? What the...the best resource you have is your peers and a second set of eyes to spot what you can’t. I’ve been a developer for 20 years and I’ve always found my peer’s opinions and thoughts to be my greatest asset in my career
I once applied to a job instead of a rejection or invite I got a ad for a professional resume service when I refused they sent a email back basically saying they where going to inform the unemployment office about my refusal. Also worked (my first dev job)at one of tho companies that doesnt mentor noonbs or check code and can confirm you get blamed when it it's the fan sad thing is management actually expressed confusion about why we weren't as good as a "real game company" that's an actual quote.
The Hola stuff reads exactly like a company that would pretend to run a vpn but without any encryption and then sell off the bandwidth to advertisers, not caring about the safety of its clients (cattle might be a better word) nor about if and how the network switches can handle the kind of traffic that looks suspiciously like a DDoS attack.
These videos are great for younger generation or feeble people that do not understand not everyone is honest and try to take advantage of people. I would think alot of this is common sense, but I see this alot and talk to people that tell me all these too good to be true stories and I have to break the news to them.
A big part of my job is specifically to do code reviews and testing, and I know from experience that requiring a standard of perfect commits every time is absurd and downright impossible. I'm the person who does the reviewing, with 8 years of experience, and I still make mistakes in my commits from time to time.
3:08 I think the best advice is to get paid in milestones. Clients may not be willing to pay upfront if you have no track record, so no upfront, but payment on each agreed milestone is best. So if they flake after the first milestone, you at least waste a lot less time.
Yeah I've seen this remote hola job before..and this is not the only one, some of them ask you to book seats for their webinars, like and share their social media pages
"Solve it yourself! Don't talk to the Senior Pharaohs/don't stain our pure DNA with your noobness" Noob: "Ok then..." Pharaohs: "StackOverflow?!?! How outrageous! You're fired!!!"
Video idea: Tall-tell signs of a bad programming job: #1 - They used to word "family" (like you said), the implication being that if you're not a right fit for their clique you're not getting the job! #2 - ???
Welcome to all of my Hola Noobs! So close to 200k!
Job Scam 0:27
Hola is Garbage 3:44
Congratulations Joshua! So close to 200K❗👏 We still need to link up soon and go a vlog💥 here in SLC. Meanwhile, am close to 5K💥
Cheers on following your TH-cam advice with the time stamps, props
Hey Josh, have you seen the crap going on with Lambda bootcamp? Might be worth covering for your channel. Good video man.
Is Hola ok with employees ever going on holiday or being uncontactable? Do they get a day off call as a 'treat' every leap year?
I'm looking forward to seeing your Arduino project. I bought a kit last year and did some 30 projects, it was pretty cool stuff.
Hola? More like ADIÓS!
ADIÓS! amigo
putos scams
Lol the opposite of hola is au revoir !!
Source: I'm Russian
"We trained an AI on 100k BS company culture guides and this is what it came up with."
Lol, so true.
I went through a 8hr coding interview with blizzard and less than 12hrs after than mind-numbing nightmare they called and said "Thanks but you are not qualified" for an associate level python developer....What a waste of my time that is why I don't apply to companies large or small anymore I do my own thing.
i hear you. companies treat junior devs like they scrapin gum off their shods
First day, first task: LETS DEPLOY SOME CODE TO PRODUCTION
😂
Good one!
Hahaha! Sounds like my boss that required us to deploy a feature in prod in the 3 days we had before holiday vacations that involved... timezones! I worked two 16h shifts in those 3 days. Madness. I’m surprised the feature works well and no one complained about it! (Oh and all of that without a single test across the web app, backend and inference engine)
That's insanity.
Hahaha
"I am a developer..."
No! You are noob! HOLA!
I just spent the last 5 mins laughing at ur comment lol
Dude, just reading their job ad is stressful, I can't imagine working there...
"No one will check your work - so do it well first time" (sic)
The irony here is astounding. And hilarious.
A remote job with one of the perks being an In-house chef???? LMAO
PS. You have to double as an in house chef
@@VolcanicPenguin or he lives with you now😂
dont forget he also doubles as your dog sitter and by "he" I of course mean: you.
Very good video - it's kind of mind-boggling what companies put out to hire folks and what their expectations are. Kind of insane.
I made the mistake once of buying training for a job that I didn’t even get anyways. Lesson learned to never do that again.
You’re definitely a good youtuber
Man. The content , the zoom in/out cuts , the ability to inform and entertain . 👌🏾👌🏾
Companies like this are more prevalent than people know. Get those years of experience and move onto one of the few good ones.
I had an interview where my task was to create several React components to sort calendar data into visual data which varies in length based on how long the event is. The events should also be draggable and support manual resizing based on data being changed, or manually adjust. I ghosted them almost instantly.
I hate the "tests" when applying to companies. They are asking for free work from you, its so blatant. If they didn't know about your skill level from your portfolio, they shouldn't waste your time and work.
Josh, as a strong electronics enthusiast looking to go into that field after high school, I would not mind if this channel had Arduino content.
Thomas Gourley me too , i really wanna see your robot ideas
Okay my comments for the past two videos have been loved by Josh. I think this means that I'm officially his favorite subscriber.
Backing this up so we can encourage Joshua to put some arduino videos up!
@joshua Fluke do it nerd
I would love this, I'm trying to make some birthday gifts because I know my parents would love something I made them that related to my career.
You can add piece of code to your application, which would allow you to destroy the software and their infrastructure remotely, if they don't pay you after completion.
Now that I’m done with bootcamp I’m looking for data analyst jobs in my town.
Thanks for making these videos so I know what to (and to not) seek out.
How did that go?
Ok, that Sh* is funny and creative: "Reverse Financed Internship".
Hey, for anyone watching as a Data Scientist or Data Engineer DO NOT talk to or work with EOIC, total SCAM
M Musashi it’s like the reverse interest they’ve been pioneering in central banking sectors.
I think that advertisement for reverse financed internship was made by a frustrated programmer who can't get a job..LOL
@@scottc.5142 , still funny ----
I've seen legitimate internships in Australia by registered non-profit organisations offering reverse financial internships. It's more common than you may think.
@@saturnGEEK , are you serious?
Don't Be Honest
Honesty and integrity are lame. Your peers will be cheating and lying. You should do it too!
Oh btw we don't tolerate dishonesty.
True
310K and you deserve every subscriber. Your videos are super high-quality, and your consistency is insane. Favorite new channel.
Wow, Hola is trash.
That's a serious understatement.
Has Hola became Adios yet? lmao
This is one of the crappiest jobs I've seen. I had a job that seemed fine the first 7 months but then it got progressively shittier and looking back, there were a lot of things that were wrong, there were no code reviews, we'd test our own code and while I appreciated the little supervision, the last 6 months or so they would give me 0 feedback and then one day I was let go because they "didn't like my work the last 2 months" but I was never told anything, it was always "yeah, fine".
What's the company name?
@@ka-md8ue It's a local company
As someone who writes game code, I know it can get very sloppy if you don't have a-lot of experience and good programming patterns. No code review is a awful idea and asking a much more experienced people for tips and reviews is very good for learning.
Regarding the "avoid meetings" I used to be a project manager working out in the field. Once a week all the project managers who were working on the same project would have a 1 hour or so conference call. It was basically just "hey we noticed this thing is messed up and this is how we fixed it, so if you notice your thing is messed up like that you don't have to spend the 40 minutes figuring it out because we already did that". Just an exchange of solutions. It saved every crew countless hours over the years.
Meetings that save time ? What is that sorcery ?
I have once applied for a position at Harley Davidson as a web dev and when I got through the terms and conditions, it was a holy shit moment where I have never clicked "I decline" so fast. They want to collect literally every single piece of info on me, and I mean EVERYTHING. Including my medical record, my mother's maiden name, my bank account number, my health record. It was about 6 pages of shit they wanted from. It was fucking terrifying. Yeah no.
I took screenshots of the whole thing.
Bank account number? Lol how do they even explain that one
@@mn-cb3hk don't they need that for direct deposit? That or the routing number I'm pretty sure
Only TH-camr who's telling the truth and exposing bad companies
This is why I transitioned from a developer to a systems administrator after 2 years out of college. It's much easier saying "I'm gonna write some scripts to manage this or monitor that to make my job easier." I'm responsible for everything from start to finish. It doesn't matter how it looks because it's all internal. I decide when it's complete and ready to deploy.
What happens if you're a Veteran at Hola and you make a mistake and they have to fire you but they also can't let you go? Mindbreaking.
Cheers from Argentina.
For a while I thought that your channel was too negative. Now I actually appreciate things like this considering I will be in the job market soon. These scams are horrible.
I imagine the first day of working on site at Hola would be something like this
HR: Ok well now that your desk is all set up, go ahead and commit that code. I’ll be in my office if you need me.
Me: Uhhh, I have no idea what this library does. Let me just slack the Sr.Dev
Sr.Dev: f**k off
You are very kind to share your industrial experience with beginning beginner -- the tricks and traps -- of what and how. Hopefully the job market is both consistent (no self-contradiction) and transparency (no company options)...
Ah yes, the classic "reverse finance internship", something that definitely exists. I feel like I'm actually in the streets of Brooklyn being sold a Rolex from a trench coated man in an alley way just by reading that. Hola thinking they're a FANG company with the amount of interviews you gotta go through, my god
Make a review of crappy companies like Revature and TalentPath, where they train you and if you get fired within the first year you have to pay them around $20,000.
That can't be legal
Its cooking.
@Joshua Fluke I was going to do revature but I left last minute. I'm still not aware. Can't wait for that video!
They told me $36k but yeah same idea
@@mohanadhmd I was in the same position man. Something better always comes up.
Wow, didn't know Revature was that bad. I was thinking about applying. Guess it's good I haven't.
At least there are a lot of jobs out there for anything dev related. Even after filtering out the garbage.
Try being an IP attorney in America right now. Today, I listened in on an interview with a friend who has been out of work for a while and the law firm hiring stated they had reviewed 2000 resumes and still hadn't found the right person. Plus they forced my friend to watch their corporate culture video before the interview. I wish could share the peak level of cringe I witnessed. The video virtue signaled the importance of inclusive diversity and "progressive togetherness." And then they asked my friend for their thoughts on the company's "culture". Meanwhile they're all pale Anglos with 1 token woc/poc.
I think the idea of a pair session in which you pair with a senior dev to squash a 0-1 story point bug couos be an excellent way to get an intro to the code. But I'd really ensure that it was either a product they were familiar or your documentation makes it a very straight forward debug and fix.
Been watching these garbage programming videos while looking for job listings, gonna finish my B.S. for Comp Sci later this semester and it's legitimately making me depressed because most of the listings I find are offering around the same as what's being called garbage... and worse yet it's in Canadian, which is 25% under the USD atm...
Reversed financed? Wow, I would take the interview just to mess with them. Call them, that would be fun
Call them and reverse the charges.
You are the In-House Chef!
seeing just how long and ridiculous that encyclopedia of an employee handbook you read was, makes me think that there are more than a few people working there that are consistently bored and are constantly writing shit to make themselves look busy
Thanks so much for these videos. It's really tricky navigating all these scam jobs.
Recruitment should be no more than 3 interviews. 1) Prescreening phone interview with HR. 2) Phone interview with managers. 3) In-person interview. This way no one's time is wasted.
I remember back in 2004 when the job scam of the day was done by Online Colleges like Phoenix. What colleges like Phoenix would do was that would post a job online and then you would always get a call from a recruiter and they would only help you out if you promised to sign up for the online college or do an orientation for the college.
The help provided would by literal job links to other fake jobs that were online colleges.
"I have been watching... way too much Michael Reeves..."
instant like 😁
A lot of this stuff happens in the Freelance Writing and Content Creation world, too.
Really liked this video so I double smashed the like button.
I triple smashed that button
@Billy But Whole finally a reply that actually gets the joke.
@@Metruzanca Everyone got your "joke"; the last guy just decided to exhaustively explain it for some reason.
I've read job ads where they demand you not only have your own workstation but also the software and whatever tool necessary. Wacky companies.
Reverse Internships are literally just being a customer
Reverse financed internship is a real thing in Turkey.
Scams
In Turkey a 60 hour week is a thing
@@1yasin6 do you guys at least get a minimum pay?
@@loek1455 thankfully i don't live there but minimum wage is at about 2,3€ per hour. But because of the drop in value of the lira people getting minimum wage can buy much less. And also unpaid overtime is very common
@@1yasin6 that sounds pretty low. I dont know how high the living costs are in turkey, but coming from germany this sounds really low. I'm in my appreticeship and earn about double of that, and thats already very low in germany compared to actual jobs
They sound like the type of company that takes joy in raking candidates over the coals. 30 min long interview with one developer and then a 60 min long interview with the senior developer. I bet you that senior developer eviscerates most candidates that step into his office. Wondering how many developers crawl home shivering after going through their interrogation. The worst part is, I bet they know ahead of time that 90% of their candidates won't make the cut, yet they take them all the way through the process...because they can.
Thank you so much Fluke
Your workstation a.k.a ultra budget pc that sounds like jet engine when compiling
Why the hell do I enjoy this anti-LinkedIn vlog-content so much ???
I once was interviewed for a student job in Hola's HQ in Israel. It didn't go anywhere but I indeed felt some atmosphere of tension and authority there. After reading some reviews (mostly in Hebrew), indeed many say that the treatment there to developers is very bad. Someone even said that he got reprimanded because he sent an e-mail with one or two unnecessary blank lines.
Job listings like this give an introvert like myself severe anxiety when it comes to getting my first dev job. I feel like I'm going to be strung up by my feet the first time I miss a semicolon.
So happy that coding is starting to excite you. Especially along with some interesting robotic content! Happiness is everything.
In the UK a lot of training companies post job ads, but it's to train with them and then they will support you in getting the job.
@Genius by Design you pay them for training.
@@nauxsi It's expensive. There was one company called BTC in Chesington South I had interview with for a one month training course on becoming an electrician. It costed £9000. Glad I was not stupid enough to take out a personal loan.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 with private companies it's expensive. Look for sixth form colleges that do nvq course.
"You'll work from home, but we'll be watching you" 👁️👁️
Congrats on 200k ma boi
You earned my sub, keep it up.
LPT: if there is a job that's so good you want to pay to join, they're probably not interested in the petty amount you have in your pocket.
Great work that you are doing josh ...
Another scam job ads in my country
Training Centers post the perfect job for junior IT (Dev, Ops, DevOps, Security, ...).
and in every corner you will find a copy of Microsoft "partner" Certificate
Josh, HOLA just wrote a Manifesto run and run far away from the craziness.
200K subscribers waiting room.
LoL at that 3 weeks, that's exactly what happened to me in my 1st programming job, I heard it used to be 3 months probation then it became 2, when I entered the fray, it was at that time the probation was now 1 month, ofcourse I didn't make the cut as you had said I have to set my environment and know what's going on and what's the best practices, it's definitely not as crazy nor as paranoid as HOLA, I felt really down for weeks.
It comes to me as a surprise that a software company won't review your code until after committing or deploying. That is the just the most ridiculous and crappiest way of working I have ever heard. The whole point of reviewing the code is for the developer to learn something (especially as a junior) and for the code to be in good shape for deployment in a product.
On-call rotations is a common thing in companies that run web services with millions of users. For example, Facebook has those. You basically do it in shifts, so you need to be on-call for several hours once in two weeks or something like that (and in that DNA they mentioned such shifts). So you don't have to be available all the time, not even close to that. On-call exists because if anything breaks, company looses tons of $$$ every minute (because a lot of users).
Everything else you told about Hola is rubbish, I'm starting to realize why their VPN doesn't work for me here in Russia.
i remember one employment agency asked me to pay for fingerprinting for the federal clearance. but it ended up a waste as they told me they won't be doing the clearance because the client wasn't interested. and then stopped taking calls and emails after trying to followup.
Congrats on 200k!
Out of college a data analyst (most computer science related positions) in a relatively expensive area should be starting at at least 75k with employee benefits. Without benefits then like $45/hour. Even Costco pays $20/hour
Can you do a video how to avoid company to join by their hiring process?
Use those companies the same way they use you. Get your experience and then PEACE OUT to a better place.
Reverse paid internships may sound shocking, but where I live, the 'IT companies' will have new and even experienced junior devs sign a 'bond' or agreement that forces the developer to work for the company for a year or two, even though it's against the law to put a constraint on someone's trade and profession. This shitty practice IS the worst thing a company can do to new guys.
My current company has such time bond that they made me sign for a year in last July, but I'm planning to leave in Feb for a course anyway. I'm not afraid to fight back!
5 interviews and a 3 week Bootcamp. That’s too damn much
Congrats on the raspberry pi! I'm currently putting one in a gutted, outdated, digital frame and making a wifi connected, self-updating digital frame.
My next project was going to build a desktop arcade cabinet.
And I'm toying around with the scary idea of making my own touchscreen car radio
I'm not in the industry but watched the video anyway. I'm interested in knowing about employment/job scams.
Solve it yourself? What the...the best resource you have is your peers and a second set of eyes to spot what you can’t. I’ve been a developer for 20 years and I’ve always found my peer’s opinions and thoughts to be my greatest asset in my career
Quality content! Here's a sub!
I hate all these boot camp type job listings posing as legit positions and wasting my time and space on the job board
I once applied to a job instead of a rejection or invite I got a ad for a professional resume service when I refused they sent a email back basically saying they where going to inform the unemployment office about my refusal.
Also worked (my first dev job)at one of tho companies that doesnt mentor noonbs or check code and can confirm you get blamed when it it's the fan sad thing is management actually expressed confusion about why we weren't as good as a "real game company" that's an actual quote.
Remind me to uninstall hola.... I feel unsafe with it on my pc now.
You have been reminded
Hey
This job description and handbook is a giant middle finger for the all the programmers.
We don't need managers or any communication between employees at all. This sounds like when Todd Howard said "It just works".
The Hola stuff reads exactly like a company that would pretend to run a vpn but without any encryption and then sell off the bandwidth to advertisers, not caring about the safety of its clients (cattle might be a better word) nor about if and how the network switches can handle the kind of traffic that looks suspiciously like a DDoS attack.
These videos are great for younger generation or feeble people that do not understand not everyone is honest and try to take advantage of people. I would think alot of this is common sense, but I see this alot and talk to people that tell me all these too good to be true stories and I have to break the news to them.
A big part of my job is specifically to do code reviews and testing, and I know from experience that requiring a standard of perfect commits every time is absurd and downright impossible. I'm the person who does the reviewing, with 8 years of experience, and I still make mistakes in my commits from time to time.
Good thing I haven't seen Hola job postings online since I didn't know how bad they were until now.
So there are different tiers, very strict rules, and you are encouraged to get people into the team?
Sounds similar to certain MLMs.
3:08 I think the best advice is to get paid in milestones. Clients may not be willing to pay upfront if you have no track record, so no upfront, but payment on each agreed milestone is best. So if they flake after the first milestone, you at least waste a lot less time.
Congrats on 200k man :)
Yeah I've seen this remote hola job before..and this is not the only one, some of them ask you to book seats for their webinars, like and share their social media pages
Josh Fluke has redpilled me about the job market. His video has made me much more strict and taking my own career in my own hands.
Congrats on 200k Subs! props. for Michael Reeves reference.
Paying money to work, never heard that one before
@Joel Ortiz Fuck college
"Solve it yourself! Don't talk to the Senior Pharaohs/don't stain our pure DNA with your noobness"
Noob: "Ok then..."
Pharaohs: "StackOverflow?!?! How outrageous! You're fired!!!"
the thing is. 95% of developer "job openings" are a scam, without trying to get your money. Yep, the "developer shortage" is a huge scam.
I would love to hear from a Hola Noob bootcamp survivor
Yes, I work in something similar. it's horrible, can't wait my chance to leave. wish me luck!
Video idea: Tall-tell signs of a bad programming job: #1 - They used to word "family" (like you said), the implication being that if you're not a right fit for their clique you're not getting the job! #2 - ???