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List of conditions and preferences, for recruiters
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:url: work-preferences/
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:save_as: work-preferences/index.html
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:status: published
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If you are a recruiter looking to hire me, i first want to say thank you. This means you are not
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just blindly select people to contact but you’re doing research on them. I appreciate that.
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Below is a list of conditions and preferences that’s good to know before we talk. These are the
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things i won’t bend in, no matter what.
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* I’m a family man, and with a wife who has a much stricter schedule it is i who transport the
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children between schools and home. This means that:
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1. i need a really flexible schedule
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2. i work remotely. If that’s not an option for your client, stop right now; that’s something
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i won’t reconsider anytime soon. Occasional visits to HQ is OK, though.
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* i use a Fedora Linux workstation for work. I won’t install any corporate spyware on it like
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activity or time trackers. Corporate-specific apps for things like messaging and VPN might be
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OK (but many of those are suspicious). I’m willing to run different operating systems in
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virtual machines for testing purposes, but changing my working environment must be my choice,
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not my employer’s.
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* Python is my main programming language, but i’m happy to learn new ones. I won’t, under any
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circumstances, work with Java, PHP, and Perl, unless the job is to migrate away from those
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languages (and even then i might refuse based on other circumstances).
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* if i have to do some coding on a whiteboard during the interview, solve problems that are
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already solved in a lot of places (like implementing a linked list), or solve some brain teasers
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i’ll hang up without a warning. That method is plain wrong and no serious interviewer should
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use it. Not even for hiring beginners. I have a bunch of openly available projects, or you can
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put my skills to the test in a realistic setting. I guess the work you’re hiring for is not
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“writing nonsense programs on whiteboards”.
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* i will never work for Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, Meta/Facebook, any banks, or
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financial institutions. If you are trying to recruit me for one of these, just stop; both of
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our times are more precious than that. I can tell you why, in case you are interested, though;
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but for that, an email should be enough.
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* i do understand that a lot of you recruiters are bound by NDAs and such, but if you find me fit
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for a position and don’t mention the company who you’re recruiting for, the position is out of
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question. This way i can’t do *my* part of the research, to check if *i* want to work with that
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company at all. In this case i’ll assume the worst (see the previous point) and decline
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immediately.
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* money is not everything; you definitely can’t change my mind about all the things above by
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offering more. However, if you’re recruiting in Hungary (or *from* Hungary hoping that it will
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be cheap), be prepared that my expectations are probably higher than you might think. My wife
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is a teacher and that’s an expensive hobby in this country which i’m wilfully support
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financially (among other things).
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Please also keep in mind that i’m happily employed at the moment, and am not actively looking for
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a change. I might be interested in your offer, but there’s a high chance that i’ll just refuse.
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If all the above are OK with you, feel free to contact me. Also, instead of writing me an email,
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you might want to `book a time slot <{filename}appointments.rst>`_ instead.
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