Well, all that said, it's been interesting that no one has wanted to work with me. Frankly, it was shocking, as I definitely have the skills, experience and "soft" skills, like Accountability and Responsibility, as well as years of experience at selling difficult projects to real hard-nosed, empirical managers.
I also would have been quite willing to work for a fraction of what people that don't have my chops would want.
The worst was working with recruiters. They are downright insulting. Quite jarring.
Whiteboard/LeetCode tests are a flat-out insult to me. I won't do well at them, and I'm quite aware that people spend huge amounts of time, practicing for them, so I don't have a chance.
I do have a few hundred thousand lines of code, dozens of blog articles, dozens of repos, and a decade or more of checkin history. I've been told that I "faked" it, which would be hilarious, if it weren't so insulting.
In the end, I just decided to stop looking for work, and I'm working in a small startup team, writing some fairly powerful software, for free; because I enjoy doing this stuff.
It's pretty odd that the current scene is actively hostile towards folks like me. I feel that it's fairly self-destructive.
I also would have been quite willing to work for a fraction of what people that don't have my chops would want.
The worst was working with recruiters. They are downright insulting. Quite jarring.
Whiteboard/LeetCode tests are a flat-out insult to me. I won't do well at them, and I'm quite aware that people spend huge amounts of time, practicing for them, so I don't have a chance.
I do have a few hundred thousand lines of code, dozens of blog articles, dozens of repos, and a decade or more of checkin history. I've been told that I "faked" it, which would be hilarious, if it weren't so insulting.
In the end, I just decided to stop looking for work, and I'm working in a small startup team, writing some fairly powerful software, for free; because I enjoy doing this stuff.
It's pretty odd that the current scene is actively hostile towards folks like me. I feel that it's fairly self-destructive.