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Comment 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.

Comment on How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant 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.

Comment on How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant 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…

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

Comment on A few changes by Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:52:19 +0000

good on ‘ya!

Comment on Installing Python 3 on Windows (video) by Naomi Ceder

Naomi Ceder — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:49:13 +0000

That’s a fair objection, now that I think of it. I suppose part of the problem is that most Linux and Mac installers take care of this for you these days, so us non-Windows types don’t even think about it. I don’t have time to do a new version right now, but I’ll add that the next time I do one. Thanks for the suggestion!

Comment on Installing Python 3 on Windows (video) by Don Gateley

Don Gateley — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:41:15 +0000

I was hoping that you would cover the important things like correctly setting the windows environment and path variables, heavy sigh.

Hell, that should be prominent within the installation package you get from Python.org. I don’t understand how people in the open software community think. At all. They seem to get off on making things obscure and difficult.

Comment on A few changes by Carl Trachte

Carl Trachte — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:35:42 +0000

You’ll always be the smart, eclectic, all-around decent edu-pythonista to me

Comment on How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant 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.

Comment on How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant 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.