I am a senior dev and work in a fortune 10 company. I only do it for money. I used to very excited about software, but after 10 years of development have realized, only few get to have fun at software and also get paid for it.
I have been in bay area for the last 4 years. I moved to bay area for better opportunity. As an Indian, I find bay area more conducive. I moved from deep south (Alabama). Our combined family income is around 350K and with that we were able to afford a very good home in east bay in good school district. I think, the perspective needs to change. If you come to bay area, you are coming here for opportunity in the tech world and it's not going to be easy here. There are many talented people here and to make it here, you have to compete and compete hard.
We should start a service, similar to downforeveryoneorjustme.com, that lets us aggregate info about which companies do not provide any type of response when rejecting a candidate.
It's such a rude thing to do; probably the companies themselves would be glad for it so they could see the poor perception it generates and then work to fix it with an easy solution like polite but automated rejection emails.
The fact that many companies already do this, companies of all sizes and facing all manner of different magnitudes of applicant pool size, really makes the effect stark too. You pretty much have to very actively choose a policy of utterly not replying; an excuse like "we get too many applications to reply to them all" or "we can't afford to build an application response system right now" just don't work given that some companies receiving huge amounts of applications, some early stage companies deep in the throes of building their first product, and even some companies facing both problems simultaneously, already do it.
I agree with this. I have been involved in writing software for online standards based testing. The software was being used by schools. But, it never took off. After many years of bootstrapping, the founders sold the company. I can summarize from my experience that software/hardware combinations in the classroom was difficult to scale because of :
1. Not enough fund to buy the hardware.
2. Not enough interest from teachers to move to a software based testing.
3. Not enough pressure from school district to move to software based testing.
So there's not one MLS feed, it's a separate feed for each of the 950 national MLS organizations. In theory they follow the RET specification but in practice there are different versions of the spec and they don't all follow it exactly.
6:45 : Wake up
6:50: Brush my teeth
6:55: Start boiling water and milk with tea powder
7:05: Pour my tea into a cup and clean the vessels
7:10: Start looking at some code from previous night
7:30: Read emails
7:45: Help son to brush and get ready
8:10: Shave and have my bath
8:30: Head out to Daycare
