I am going to write this from the perspective of a potential employer.
Personally, I don't look at the years of experience someone has, but at the projects that the person worked on and how good that person is at answering some technical questions (to weed out people that lie about their experience and knowledge).
If you are good at what you do, then have some projects to show your expertise. And there are a few options to get them:
1. help a non-profit for a lower pay or even for free
2. contribute to open source projects
3. create a project of your own where you can show what you can do
> What did you do to get a response back from jobs you've submitted an application to?
When applying don't talk about years of experience, but about what projects you completed and how you managed to get them done.
"1. help a non-profit for a lower pay or even for free 2. contribute to open source projects 3. create a project of your own where you can show what you can do"
What's wrong with projects from previous full-time jobs? My most complex and interesting projects were done during paid hours and since I usually was the only person working on these projects, I can proudly call them "mine", despite being owned by an employer. From the perspective of an employee, if you demanded to have non-paid projects I would thank you for an interview and say "goodbye", even though I have some of these.
I think any of these things (1, 2, 3) are commendable, but expecting any of them is like only hiring a plumber if he has completed any good plumbing projects in his spare time.
I find it completely bizarre this has now become the standard in hiring software engineers.
I've been reading conversations here on Hacker News and noticed that this has created a lot of frustration among existing Mandrill users, especially for those that have setup the system for their customers.
I believe that MailChimp was aware of this before making this decision and knew that they are going to loose some customers.
At this point they will become a bit expensive, even more expensive than SendGrid and a lot of their customer base will migrate away.
However, I do believe that this is something they wanted with this move, so that people using the service for free which took advantage and sent spam and also small businesses that cannot afford to pay a high end service will move away.
Then, they will keep the MailChimp fans, those that afford the service and will spend more on the service.
In conclusion, it's a bold strategy change that will weed out some of the bad accounts and will ultimately improve the revenue stream for MailChimp.
What is really sad is the fact that they are going to also lose a lot of their genuine customers who do not want or need MailChimp.
I don't think it's as simple as that. This is a data mining exercise - to read our customer's subscribers data and to move from a "dumb pipe" to a "personalization engine". From mailchimp CEO's blog: "We came to a fork in the road, and choosing the “personalized transactional” path with Mandrill suits us and our customers better than the “utility” path."
That's a good point. As a longtime Mandrill customer who sends 750,000 + emails per month through their system, I have no problem with their decision to implement a new strategy.
What disappoints me is the way they've chosen to go about this -- specifically the fact that they've left us 3 weeks before these changes take effect.
That shows a lack of respect for their customers -- not just the "bad" ones and those looking for a free service, but all of us.
In making a change of this magnitude, they needed to allow more time between announcement and implementation and they needed to be much more clear up front about what the updated pricing structure will be (which they still have not done for high volumes).
If your work is above average then you should not have an issue getting a job from a US company that will arrange all the paperwork for you.
Alternatively you could start by working in an European office, if the company is global and then find a way to relocate in the US.
However, you would be better by working from home and start doing some freelance work until you get to the expert level. Then, you can get a job and work remotely for any company in the world.
Everyone wants talented people. If you are talented it shouldn't be hard to find something good for you. If there is room for improvement do the work and get noticed by others.
The score will depend on your location, but I agree, it looks like the page has has 2 blocking CSS resources.
they could use their own advice and fix it: "Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML."
Jeff Deutsch explains how he published a post that went viral, what went good, what didn't and some good takeaways that could be used to go viral with your next article.
The course did really good in terms of conversion rates, but I rushed it a little bit and I didn't manage to get a high amount of traffic, so I can benefit of those high conversion rates.
20% of those who saw the intro video subscribed to get the free series of video tutorials
15% of those who subscribed got on the webcast
5% of those who subscribed purchased the course
But teaching through video and video in general works really well in almost any niche.
I hope this helps, but do let me know if you have any other questions.
Personally, I don't look at the years of experience someone has, but at the projects that the person worked on and how good that person is at answering some technical questions (to weed out people that lie about their experience and knowledge).
If you are good at what you do, then have some projects to show your expertise. And there are a few options to get them:
1. help a non-profit for a lower pay or even for free 2. contribute to open source projects 3. create a project of your own where you can show what you can do
> What did you do to get a response back from jobs you've submitted an application to?
When applying don't talk about years of experience, but about what projects you completed and how you managed to get them done.