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Employed lemmings, how did you get hired? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago by ViscloReader to c/[email protected]

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[–] shankrabbit 6 points 7 months ago

This was a while ago. My college didn't have a CS major (small liberal arts college) so they brought in an adjunct professor who was a Director of IT of a small market research firm. After 4 semesters as his student, he offered me a job my senior year. Longest interview ever.

That was over 20 years ago.

My current job (big tech) was from my friend who I worked with coming up to me and saying "A recruiter from [company] is calling you tomorrow. I gave them your name." Never in a million years did I think I was at that caliber, but I went through it anyway because the worst they could say is "no".

They said "yes".