u/cozyonly wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
In what ways do they have hustle? Like are they reading a bunch of books? messaging a lot of recruiters? Pushed code to GitHub daily? I’m interested what you mean by that because CS students are probably spending 30-40 hours per week on coursework and three still have to learn th
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I can only speak to trying to generalize the people I know but everyone is a unique person with unique set of skills and experiences.
So the "hustle" comes someone who would do 11 hours a day M-F and 9 hours on saturdays. People who will ping and message recruiters, people who will genuinely apply to 1000+ jobs and send outreach for many of them. People who will come to you and say "how can I make this past accounting experience sound like 2 years of engineering experience" and then spend a lot of time practicing and practicing until they can make it sound convincing. Like someone who might post on Reddit about their journey and how hard it was to get a job, but leave out that they had 13 years of "web developer" experience that's on their resume that might have helped.
Again, not trying to be negative even though when I talk about this it sounds like blatant fraud, it's too easy to judge without knowing people on a personal level and many of these individuals are great and I know will have great careers. But a number of people (NOT ALL, and some haven't identified themselves, especially on Reddit) who have posted about Codesmith and how amazing it was in reviews and how their support was amazing, leave out the fact that their LinkedIns show exaggerated experience shown... it's almost normalized behavior that people don't even realize the impact of.