In 2019, while everyone was writing summaries, I began to look for a job.
Let me introduce myself first. My net name is Fenglin, and I have 9 years of coding experience (not including 4 years in university). I am not a computer major. Four years later and five years at the front end. I have worked in small/medium/large companies and foreign companies, and started my own business in the past three years, mainly outsourcing projects. As the business environment is getting worse, I plan to find a new job. He is currently running a nearly empty company on his own.
Seven or eight interviews a week. I got a verbal offer on my first day out, which gave me a lot of confidence. Then came the constant rejection. The reasons are mainly in the following aspects: 1, can not pass the people, the entrepreneurial experience is a disadvantage; 2, I think my ability is ok, but the salary/position does not match; 3, I can’t pass the preliminary exam, because I only ask the most basic knowledge, and I haven’t studied native JS for a long time, and I haven’t done the relevant preparation work. So the pace of putting out resumes is slowing down.
See this, maybe you have a question, why have not found a job, to tell the interview experience?
I want to share the interview process, and at the same time, I can get advice from students who have the same experience. This brings me to an outsourcing practice I tried this year.
At that time, I had several projects (including design, Android, foreground and background) in succession, and I couldn’t do it alone. I had two choices: one to hire; The second is to find outsourcing help. From the point of view of cost, I choose the latter. The implementation process is interesting. Different from the general overall project outsourcing/module, I mainly settle these projects on time and find people to live on site. In order to save the cost of commuting for talents, I set up an office at the subway entrance, specifically looking for engineers/designers who live nearby or pass by after work. Finally, within one month, several projects were completed perfectly, and the cost was controlled within 30% of the total budget. I started to implement a native Android project from scratch (taught by the resident staff, Kotlin). And I have worked with nearly 30 engineers/designers (ranging from 50 yuan to 5000 yuan).
From this outsourcing practice, I think whether normal recruitment can also adopt this way? 1. Review your resume, and promise to give the candidate 1 to 3 hours of paid time to solve the problem. 2. After the candidate arrives at the company, he/she will start billing after 5-15 minutes of requirements explanation, directly solve the actual problems in the company’s project, and the interviewer /Hr can see how he/she solves the problems; 3. When the time is up, the company will pay on time; 4, evaluate the comprehensive ability of the candidate to solve problems, to decide whether to hire.
For job seekers: it will not be a waste of time, and the ordinary interview process takes about the same time; For recruiters, more in-depth interviews can be conducted at a lower cost, while solving some problems in actual projects. It may even be a long-term outsourcing strategy.
I wanted to promote this model, but I soon ran into the problem of insufficient projects.
For me, it’s best to keep going with my business (it’s been going for three years). If not, I will take the next job interview seriously.
We will continue to update the interview process later.
Update: Some thoughts on job hunting and entrepreneurship