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From the perspective of a job seeker how do you answer questions about a company? I use LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor to read reviews. Are there others?

I'm searching for a Rust engineering role and recognize that a lot of roles involve blockchains. I have ~3 years of Rust experience and over 20 years experience in software engineering.

I'd like to start learning the fundamentals about blockchains and would like some recommendations for learning resources including books.

I've been in tech for over 20 years and I'm also frustrated how difficult it is to use job sites including LinkedIn and Indeed which seem to be the major players now.

For example, if I wanted to find a job that involves using Rust on a daily basis it involves a lot of manual filtering. This is because languages tend to be lumped together in phrasing like "one or more of the following languages are ideal" but then they don't qualify the ones they actual use.

New job sites seem to pop up all the time but are pretty similar and may only be marginally better because they're more specialized.

Am I missing a better way to find the job I really want without having to read through hundreds of job descriptions? Does the industry need a "spec" for posting jobs?

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how I would improve the software development process to ensure success. The specific areas I have in mind are requirements gathering and testing which typically take the longest amount of time to get right. Rethinking these areas and others in the frame of what's possible with AI integration with close human oversight and guidance seems like a fantastic strategy. I'm also aware that changing priorities, org changes, etc. can wreak havoc on a project but seem almost impossible to mitigate.

Share your previous software project failures and reasons why you think they failed. What would you have done differently?