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airstrike | on: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
> Unfortunately, they were not impressed and ultimately did not offer me the job :(

Sorry to hear that. No recruiting process is perfect. They often get it wrong, as they clearly did here!

com2kid | parent | next
I interviewed a developer once who was super junior on paper but had a side project of a fully featured desktop anime episode to watch/watched tracker with lots of library feature features.

Hire.

Interviewed another Dev who made arcade sticks as a side project.

Hired.

You can't teach passion. Hire all that passionate people you can. Tech stacks are irrelevant compared to the love of building things.

pc86 | root | parent | next
Also a great filter from the other side.

I was not hired once because I didn't have React experience, despite having years of both Vue and Angular and having led teams building non-trivial apps in both. IME focusing on such a minor detail like that means either a) you're going to be so pressured to get stuff out of the door they can't handle slightly lower productivity for a month while you learn the different syntax, and/or b) the person hiring you isn't technical enough to know this is a minor detail.

Either way, better off somewhere else :)

S201 | root | parent
I actually quite like it when this happens from the candidate side of the table. I don't want to work anywhere that is so short term focused on "you need to have X years of experience with this exact language/framework or we won't even consider you." It saves us both a lot of time by realizing our values are clearly not aligned early on in the process.
primitivesuave | root | parent
I landed my first software job when I was 18 years old. I didn't have a degree or any professional experience in their tech stack, and the recruiter told me later that I was hired because of "my passion for Legos and foreign languages" (I was learning Swahili at the time, and one of my interviewers happened to be a former volunteer in the Peace Corps, who conducted most of the interview in Swahili).

I had a great experience at that company while I was in college, which also launched me into an exciting professional career. All of it wouldn't have happened without people like you.

Aeolun | parent | next
The only thing I can imagine is that they were up against someone making a partyparrot generator.
klimeryk | root | parent
Hahaha, genuinely laughed out loud, thank you! (also, big fan of partyparrot, of course)
klimeryk | parent | next
Thank you! Yeah, I totally understand and not taking it against them. It's impossible to always get the right impression and fit for the candidate (even if it was based on a few interviews and trial, like here). So I figured I'd make the best of the situation and share the project with others! Hoping to make some new connections this way, and maybe find an even better opportunity!
teaearlgraycold | parent | next
They realized OP would put them all to shame.
ndndjdjdn | parent | next
Sorry to be the devil's advocate (just call me Beelzebub ... sung like Queen [1])

There may be other factors. Hiring is complex. They could have judged tbis fairly and they may have had a better candidate. Having a project like this should probabilistically increase your chances.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&pp=ygURYm9oZW1pYW4...

aio2 | parent
Yeah, this is pretty cool and they can fuck off.