This is part 2!
26. Culture fit is dangerous
Culture fit might be one of the most dangerous concepts in any hiring process.
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"The truth is, just by knowing how to build a basic UI with HTML/CSS and a sprinkle of JavaScript, the market has determined that you are extremely valuable."
Is that true? As an aspiring web developer that is very promising.
You're more valuable than the huge number of people on Earth who can't make websites. 😉
That's a great point, Jacob. As I'm more of a designer, that's the current level of my skills but I've never thought of it that way.
Thank you for the great post; I am 4 months in at my most recent job, and all these tips made me feel way less embarrassed. It's the posts like these that really help the dev community on a whole. Thanks again Jacob!
Glad I can help! My first dev job was really hard on my mental health, try not to take it too seriously for the first year or so ;)
Hi Jacob, nice post.
Could you please explain more the number 34. Actually I found the definition of 'Whiteboarding',
Whiteboarding in IT refers to the manipulation of digital files on a visual digital whiteboard.
But I am still lost =(
I'm glad you like it!
It's an interviewing tactic. I write a bit more about it in another post I made this week:
dev.to/jacobherrington/10-hiring-p...
Amazing man , hopefully it will help me as I am just around the corner to step into the industry.
Good luck! I hope this stuff is helpful :)
Thank you for this master piece! I will remeber every point from this.
Hi Jacob, thanks for writing this great article. I'm doing my first internship right now and I can confirm that most of your points are solid, even if it's been only 2 weeks 😅.
I feel like this is something I'm going to coming back to quite often, thank you so much for writing this all out!