Companies have a wide variety of hiring practices. By making yourself bad at one hiring procedure but good at another, you'll select for the companies that are selecting for developers like you.
Getting a job is not a numbers game unless you just want any old job and really hate jobsearching. I've found that making myself unappealing to the organizations that I wouldn't actually want to work for has paid off significantly in both financial and job satisfaction terms.
Getting a job is not a numbers game unless you just want any old job and really hate jobsearching. I've found that making myself unappealing to the organizations that I wouldn't actually want to work for has paid off significantly in both financial and job satisfaction terms.