Readit NewsThat turned into trying out simple hello world programs and eventually I found it started becoming way more interesting than my current job and found a job using it.
A lot of my network often read books and attend conferences so there's that too (not my cup of tea but everyone's got their preferred outlet)
https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820
if you don't want to click on the link, I've copied most of it below (his second post has a screenshot of the questions!):
"I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years.
Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust.
Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot."
If you are applying blindly to an ATS, you have already lost. Every remote job literally gets hundreds of applications and if your skill is generic - ie “full stack developer” or even “I can do leetCode and got into BigTech” - it’s hard to stand out from the crowd.
As a bootcamp dev, with barely 3 yoe, I'm hitting around 10% response rate for recruiter screening (remote/hybrid positions). I put a boatload of hours honing and perfecting my resume + a few other strategies.
I think there's always a way to stand out as long as they don't follow advice/opinions from anonymous forums like HN or reddit. Lots of bad noise out on the internet.
I've probably used/gone through over 25 different hiring sites the past few months and most were awful to use or had some glaring flaw. I liked X jobs, but their filtering options are terrible. LinkedIn use to be quite nice, but now it's completed bloated with promoted jobs that you can't find a real job posting until page 5 or 6 (I never hear back from promoted positions, and often they're posted months prior so probably huge backlog).
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Is twitter SFW? I constantly hear about "mechahitler" and all sorts of terrible bigotry, language, and dog whistles. I may be ignorant because I refuse to even go on there.
my feed is made up of rust stuff, databases, system designs, tech meetups, a few founders, OSS stuff, and some companies. even the other day, i came across a post from a dev at planetscale, ben dickens, who said he's going to livestream at a scheduled time to talk about some of the database concepts he recently read in the book DDIA. i watched it, and it was fantastic.
bottom line, i would say what everyone has to say about X, based on their personal experience, are all completely correct, because it becomes (or can become) the environment you want it to be.