How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer by John Sonmez
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Your development stack is cutting-edge-for 1999…
Your colleagues laughed when they
caught you studying during your lunch break…
Your boss is “agile” only when he
dodging questions about this promotion, he promised…
And how do you wedge another bug fix into this
a 10,000-line class monster is interesting to you…
Did I Fall Into This Trap
The Work Of The “Code Monkey”
For The Rest Of My Life?
Or you can finally find a job that energizes you…
Solving complex, real-world problems…
With a team of professionals who are proud of their work…
And even get what you’re really worth?
Dear Fellow Software Developer,
I still remember the moment when my boss pushed me over the edge.
One minute my boss, Tom shirkey, pulls me into the conference room for a little side talk…
The next thing I know, something inside me is breaking and I’m screaming in his face at the top of my lungs—while he’s screaming back.
And it took me everything not to do…
The Impact That Micro-Managing The Operation Of A Sausage
Right In The Face!
Now I’m not proud of this shouting match. This was definitely a low point in my software development career.
But he really deserved it…
Tom was the worst part of the worst job I’ve ever had.
Every morning when I walked through that front door, my stomach knotted. I was counting down every second of every day, and when it was 5 p.m., I hit that door running…
Hi, I’m John Sonmez.
And then, when the volume is turned every day into a living hell, I had no idea what was waiting for me in the future.
I didn’t know that one day I would become a leader in the developer community thanks to Simple Programmer, my blog that covers more than 1 million developers a year.
I didn’t know that I would create 55 PluralSight training courses on topics from Java to iOS and GoLang, or write a best-selling book, Soft Skills: the Software Developer’s Life Manual.
I didn’t know that I would ever speak at international developer conferences like Ordev and Xamarin Evolve, or major corporations like Verizon would knock on my door to consult me for $ 500 an hour.
And I really had no idea that I would achieve my dream of early retirement—and that I would achieve that goal before my 33rd birthday.
That’s all I knew then…
Today, my book Soft Skills is one of the best-selling books for software developers of all time.
“Office space” was not easy
There Will Be No More Funny Movies—
It Was A Documentary About My Life
To be honest, I only took this job out of desperation.
I’ve been out of work for 3 months.
My wife and I lived with our parents near Orlando, collapsing on the sofa bed in the living room while I looked for work.
And after months of being shot, and hearing nothing but deafening silence, you start to believe it…
The Deck Is Stacked Against You
Because of my role as a mentor to software developers around the world, I hear from many developers who are in the same boat as me.
That’s the real problem:
Programming has become a commodity.
For example, a product that is bought with the pound is usually from the lowest buyer.
Many years ago, it became known about all the features available in software development.
This is a really great career choice…
Where else can you spend your working time doing complex craft, solving complex and important real-world problems, creating products that change the world, working with some of the best and brightest minds out there…
Training and stretching every day…
Enjoy trendy office space, free snacks and ping pong games in the lounge…
And make a serious Bank in the process?
No wonder a “gold rush” of impatient young programmers has flooded into the labor market. And this trend continues—40,000 new computer science students enter the US labor market every year, not counting self-taught developers and bootcamp graduates.
Now the really great jobs are still there.
But after you’ve been to this quarter a few times, you begin to realize that opportunities, salaries, and benefits in software development are ” asymmetric.”
That’s what I mean…
Top 3% of developers
Grab All The Best Features Before You Even Hear About Them
Which leaves you struggling with the growing number of recent graduates who are happy to work for pennies to get a foot in the door.
And what makes it all the more difficult is that the hiring process for software developers is completely disrupted.
Let me lift the curtain and show you how bad it is…
When a company posts work on a site like Monster or Dice, it’s like throwing chunks of blood fish into water that’s teeming with big whites—a vicious feeding frenzy breaks out.
The first request is received within a few seconds. And they continue to pour in for several days until the publication deadline expires.
Companies receive 250 applications for every job they post, which is just the industry average.
A good developer job can attract a lot more than that, as desperate job seekers (like me!) spam your resume of every company that appears when they search for the term “developer” on Monster…
In 75% of cases, they are not even qualified.
Think about all the noise.
Now do you believe that companies have their best developers carefully weigh each app?
Of course not. Your resume is ” screened “by low-level personnel flunkies who think” for loop ” is a Golf term…
However, they get the final say on whether your resume will end up in the hands of hiring managers… Or it is thrown on an “unskilled” slag heap.
And since HR experts can’t tell programmers from posers, they just scan for buzzwords—an average of just 6 seconds per resume.
Here are the scary statistics:
98% Of The Candidates Are
Eliminated
Based Only On Their Resumes!
This means that your chances of even getting an interview are only 1 in 50.
And what are your chances of getting an offer?Only 1 out of 250.
Again, this is an average.
Want to work at Google? Good luck—it’s 10 times harder to get a job There than to go to Harvard.
Could things get even worse soon?
Almost every week, there are rumors of another round of mass layoffs at major tech giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo and IBM.
And according to Business Insider…
Industry Leaders Expect The Recent “Tech Bubble” To Burst At Any Moment
Why doesn’t anyone tell developers about this new reality?
This is the reason I spent months sleeping on my parents ‘ couch, applying for work after work, and never received even a polite rejection notice in return…
That’s why I agreed to interview a consulting firm in new Jersey, where I met Tom.
This dysfunctional team seemed determined to make me miserable from the first minute. They made me wear a full suit and tie for an interview that happened during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
All this time they were chewing egg rolls and didn’t ask me any technical questions.
(I later realized that they didn’t really care if I could program—they hired me to be the fallen guy. More on this in a minute.)
And when I answer their softball questions, I think, ” I don’t want this job, I don’t want this job…”
So Of Course I’ll Get The Job
And the hourly rate was too good for an incompetent developer like me to turn it down. After all, my family expected me to give them a roof over their heads again.
So we Packed everything we had into our Xterra and went to the coast in new Jersey-and so began the longest 11 months of my software development career.
Day 1: welcome to hell, we have t-shirts
My new boss, Tom, was a former high school football coach with a thick brown mustache-a stereotypical overbearing stepfather.
He was there to make you play your plays like a good linebacker, and if you don’t, Tom will make you do a sprint in the wind until you drop dead from exhaustion.
Tom had enough Visual Basic under his belt to become a certified expert in all aspects of software development.
Tom had to go through all my code before I checked it—even though he didn’t know the vector from his own… Well, okay…
Tom had to give his blessing before I could install any new tools on my dev box-and the person never threw a tantrum when I installed .NET framework without running it first.
I later discovered that Tom even wanted to control what I did when I wasn’t under his fatherly eye…
Anyway, on my first day on the job, I didn’t quite figure it out yet. Tom starts explaining my assignment to me, and I can hardly believe my ears.
And I began to understand this…
This Whole Concert Was A Setup From The Beginning—They Expected Me To Fail
Their hangout would go for it:
Take on a dirty lucrative consulting project with a humanly impossible set of requirements.
Then hire the first hourly consultant who wanders off the street as your fallen guy.
And when he fails, you just fire him.
You and your good old boy are running free, and you’re laughing all the way to the Bank.
But Tom didn’t give me the slightest hint of it.
Instead, he gave me some files in this printer format from Xerox Metacode called.
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