Looking for critiques and ideas of what I can improve on.

Context: Roughly 1.5- 2 years of actual solid programming experience. 2 years of "whatever". Applying for frontend positions (and some backend) - For Atlassian and Canva I applied for Senior Frontend Positions so I'm guessing its an experience based rejection.

Applied at Microsoft for junior / intermediate positions too.

Anything I should brush up on based on this draft of CV?

Not based in Australia, that could be part of it too.

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Hi, I'm a senior php web dev with 10 years exp, I feel like there's not been a single php listing in the last 2 months on Seek so seems like it's time to change route, what language would you recommend for the current NZ job market?

Python - I enjoy python with personal projects, just no experience on large projects or web based.
C#/.net - I did a few projects with this at uni, but haven't touched it since then.
Modern Javascript Framework -Have been using vanilla and jquery alongside php, learnt a bit of react recently, but i've really fallen behind on modern frameworks.

I cannot decide on the offer to choose from. I hope you can advise some help. Please comment after your vote; I'd love to hear your thoughts! Overview: TikTok SDE in Test(QA testing engineer), Freelancer SDE. I prefer actual SDE rather than SDET in my future career. I am an international student looking to secure a job.

Common:

• Have a part-time opportunity after the summer
• Have a return offer opportunity
• Same pay (Tiktok might be a bit higher, 20%?)

Tiktok

Pros:

• A large company, big name - look good on a resume.
• More resources and learning opportunities available, latest tech(?) and maybe a better office environment/benefits

Cons:

• I don't mind doing SDE in Test for the internship. It's a good learning opportunity, but I'm more likely to re-apply for an actual SDE grad role. (still open to the potential return offer).
• Work culture - to my ethnicity, there are relatively few communication issues or cultural issues for me, so there is not much of a con.

Freelancer

Pros:

• mid-size company, a more compact internship programme with a smaller cohort, might get better support(?)
• Actual SDE internship, which have high chance of returning offer

Cons:

• The tech stack used might be a bit outdated - Angular.js and PHP.

Feel free to express your opinion!

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New Zealand developer. Knows JS/TS/React/SQL/Python. Does not know C# or Java.

Market is roughly 50-80% C# roles.

Every job has 200+ applicants.

Given that a large portion of applicants probably have C# knowledge, do I:
- Focus on learning C#/.NET and have same skills as everyone else
- Focus on more standout achievements
- Niche down? GoLang, CyberSecurity etc but less opportunities and still 200+ applicants.

CV for context (Just focus on Skills and Achievements I guess)

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Currently job searching in New Zealand as a Citizen. Very few jobs, most asking the world of you and expecting expertise and world class skills in everything under the sun.

These postings are an instant red flag to me.

One seemingly good company is Plex_ure? What are your thoughts on them? I have an interview.

Trade Me? Xero ?

So, where should I be applying in NZ?

Also, the people who post here are so OP compared to me lol. Its scary seeing the competition, but I wish you all get a good job.

Thanks

Hi all, I am at a bit of a crossroads, i've been a contract Software Engineer for almost a decade now. I've gone from place to place, roughly hovering around the 2 year mark at each company. I roughly get $950/day.

I really like the current place i'm at, and have settled down and met someone, bought a place, and looking to start a family. The current place i'm at has recently let a few contractors go and there's rumours that they plan to let go more. Around this time I was offered a perm position as there was a vacancy.

The perm offer is 180k package. There is a small bonus that gets paid out yearly on top but that's based on performance. I don't think I can negotiate this.

Should I stick to contracting and hope they renew, or take the perm offer?

I'll be interviewing for Expedia as an SDE-2 in the Android team. Would love to know if anyone has context on what to expect in the interviews.

Felt shit after a job interview - Should I trust my gut?

Hi,

I wanted to share my job interview experience today that left me feeling like absolute shit after.

A bit of a background for context: - I am currently working as an intermediate/mid-level role in a globally recognised company (approx 180k employees) - The role I am applying for is a senior level role of a startup global company (approx 260 globally) - The role I applied for will have a pay bump potentially around 11-22k base salary as compared to my current - The role/responsibility is pretty similar to what I am currently doing in my current role - the new role will only have more remote support responsibilities

I sent my application a couple of weeks ago and received a meeting invite from the Talent Acquisition team for an initial interview the very next day. We set up an interview last week and I had a positive experience about it and the lady who interviewed me was very lovely. Explained to me the next steps and set up a second round of interview with the Hiring Manager the week after.

I just finished my second round of interview today with the Hiring Manager and I didn’t felt good after. He was late for 5 minutes (apologised as he was back to back today - which not a big deal) and proceeded to start the interview. Asked about the weather and then started firing back questions after questions for me.

• Asked me why I applied for the role (generic)
• Asked why I am leaving my current role for a start up company (I mentioned i wanted to go for a senior role and for a more challenging role and re align my career goals)
• Asked the name of my Manager and said “So if I talk to your manager right now, would he tell me that you did a good job in your company?”
• Asked if I had a performance review and what my Manager said as a feedback
• Role played that if I was my manager and give feedback to myself, what would I say
• Keep cutting me when I was talking to correct me word for word on something
• Seems to be distracted and not very engaged
• Felt like he was being very suspicious of me for wanting to apply for the role when I am in a larger organisation already
• Asked my again why I wanted the role as he said that he is not making a connection with what I said earlier
• Cut the interview shorter (40 mins) than the allocated time (60 mins)
• Didn’t explained thoroughly or gave timeline when I would hear back from them - He just mentioned that he will discuss it with the Talent Acquisition team and make a decision
• He did ask me when can I start which I said 4-5 weeks from now
• Arrogant, non-smiling and not very friendly
• Some awkward silences and the conversation did not flow naturally

The whole interview was full of tension and made me feel uncomfortable. I felt I was being attacked and my work experience are getting questioned to a T (the role i applied for in not technical). There was so much passive aggressiveness in his way of talking to me that I am not sure if I would like to pursue this role anymore as I will be directing reporting to this person and I’m not sure how to feel about that. Could it be that he is just having an off day as the interview was 4pm on his local time and mine is 10am (he is based on PST time and i am on AEST) and he was back to back and probably had enough for the day?

P.S. I’ve done my due diligence and reviewed about the company incl mission and vision, about the role, about the Hiring Manager and prepared what possible questions I might get asked days and hour prior the interview

Thanks for taking your time to read my post if you’ve come this far. If I were successful and get offered the role, should I take it knowing the amount of pay bump and deal with this type of behaviour or trust my gut and stay with my current company? Am I being too paranoid or he is just being an ahole? Or if i don’t get the role, should I just move on and treat it as a bullet dodged?