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Ask HN: Tips for learning how to type properly at a late age

1 points·by throw1138·4 года назад·4 comments

Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it

282 points·by throw1138·4 года назад·774 comments

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throw1138
·3 года назад·discuss
A significant source of frustration at $dayjob recently has been the _inability_ to test in production. We've just deployed Stripe, and if you're using prod API keys, there's no testing possible without spending real money. Deploy to production and pray to the tech gods I guess.
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
One of the earlier things I tried was to encourage myself to learn using a less awful layout (DVORAK as you suggested), and it didn't go very well unfortunately :(

That's very interesting about "developing" my fingers, I'll think on that, thank you!
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
Thank you mate, great stuff all around! :)
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
Remote is in the title of the post and mentioned multiple times throughout the post.

I dare say we're not posting frequently enough, that's a good point.

It's against company policy to put the range in the ad. Very very stupid, but probably nothing I can do about that.

We have three languages mentioned in the ad. But any senior candidate can be introduced to new technologies so they're not in the "requirements" section.

We could probably improve turnaround time, but the lack of applicants alongside natural attrition is making that even harder to make happen.

Thank you jhot!

Copypasta: This is a throwaway because I'm just an engineer on the team wondering if there's something obvious we're doing wrong, and I don't imagine this would be considered desirable attention by management.
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
This is a throwaway because I'm just an engineer on the team wondering if there's something obvious we're doing wrong, and I don't imagine this would be considered desirable attention by management.

Would posting a job ad on AskHN requesting feedback be acceptable? I ask because I'd have expected to see it a bunch if it were. @dang would be very appreciative of your word one way or another. Thanks mattbee.
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
There is no on-call. Like I say, it's not a DevOps position, but an SWE position requiring more significant knowledge (not administration) of the underlying platform than is typical.
throw1138
·4 года назад·discuss
Definitely #1, and the ad is fairly up-front with that.