Comments on: How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant

By: Carl Trachte

Carl Trachte — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:57:54 +0000

With regard to “sneaky”, in the Navy the expression was “If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’.” It’s true.

A few years back I attended Pycon and I tweeted something like, “They are taking resume’s from the food service people.” The type of people who attend a conference on their own time are the type of people a lot of companies are looking for – essentially what the essay says. Interest in the platform and the problems presented in the job count.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:11:37 +0000

Totally agree with this. It’s shocking how poorly some candidates come in unprepared for interviews. Often times this seems to be the case with folks sourced through recruiters – where the recruiter may not be relaying the correct information about the job to the candidate – and is more concerned about just getting someone on premise for the interview. I started a nice job board around Python which seems to attract good candidates – as it is so focused – http://www.pythonjobs.com. We’ve had good luck getting qualified candidates to employers.

By: Naomi Ceder

Naomi Ceder — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:09:38 +0000

Opinions may vary – I certainly don’t recall 6 “very well qualified” people in the past 6 months, although there were at least two who ended up finding positions more to their liking after we talked to them. And I’m afraid if you read this post as a guarantee that we would always be able to hire everyone who came along, regardless of visa status, etc, you will be in for disappointment. We actually are blessed at the moment to have all of our positions filled, and won’t be looking for more until some time in 2013. Sorry, but the point is to try everywhere…

By: this

this — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:28:05 +0000

don’t waste your time. i personally know half a dozen very qualified people that applied…she clearly ‘had no choice’ but to say they had no openings

By: Vern Ceder

Vern Ceder — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:11:08 +0000

Yes, that is unfortunate. I know that our company also has issues paying overseas contractors, so I’m not surprised. The world is not quite at the point of truly taking advantage of remote workers, so relocating to a “hot” market is often the best, and sometimes the only, way of taking advantage of the demand for Python coders.

By: mathias bustamante

mathias bustamante — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:31:04 +0000

I currently have a Python/Django job (www.worldrat.com), I love it, problem is that I live in Peru, and have been looking for a better paid job, Python related, I have tried several telecommuting jobs and home-based, I got myself some interviews and managed myself to get a couple of pretty good offers, the problem is, they needed a US-based entity to invoice them. So lame for me, I would likely not get a decent Python Job in the near future.

By: Vern Ceder

Vern Ceder — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:43:24 +0000

We do ask for some credit type information, but to my knowledge we don’t use that as a reason to reject people. At the moment, through some improbable stroke of luck (this post really didn’t have anything to do with it) we are fully staffed at the moment and won’t be hiring for a few months…

By: FC

FC — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:50:47 +0000

I’m a python programmer, but credit checks are limiting my ability to get a good job. I would send you a resume, if your company does not do that…

By: Vern Ceder

Vern Ceder — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:39:44 +0000

Indeed, some places don’t have much demand. And a lot of companies (ours included) don’t always bother to list on services like Dice. But yes, if getting a Python job is the way you want to go, you may need consider relocating or working remotely – I’ve been contacted about remote Python jobs a number of times in the past year.

By: BMO

BMO — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:34:10 +0000

A Dice search in my area for python returns two results. Some places just have no demand for python devs.