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Bloody posted:ya. its insanely stupid on the company's part. long-tenured employees are good because they build up loads of institutional knowledge but if you don't promote people and the only way to get raises is to leave welp you're gonna lose that institutional knowledge over and over Who cares humans are cogs and it's the ultimate conclusion of this broken capitalist system soon developers will be paid $2 an hour to program their robot overlords while the previous generation whips them
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holy poo poo I would never ever work there. I have heard bad things but this is amazing. I had no idea.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 07:27 |
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I got my last job because they literally made the position for me and HR had me go through the whole stupid process. Like HR had to do the pre interview 'ok, so in the job description it says "must have 3 years experience with TSO.... and your resume says 3 years with TSO, great!' An entire hour of that then 30 minutes trying to get me to tell her my previous salary to which I told her '<current salary + 15%> but given my niche skillset I'd expect at least 15% above that since I'm leaving at least that on the table in unvested stock' (also helped my buddy knew the absolute limit they would pay for the position). The other 'panel interviews' were 'heres some stupid questions we have to ask from HR, okay great, when can you start?' Anyway, I guess the moral is job hunting sucks but you'll get a job eventually and then you'll have enough experience that people on linked in are begging for your resume and/or asking for your help to do their job for them.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 08:16 |
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the only downside is the people spamming u on LinkedIn are absolute imbeciles
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 15:48 |
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I had someone look at my linkedin page to try and burn me in some internet argument on facebook. How many years I have in your industry doesn't affect newtons first law you dumbshit
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Bloody posted:the only downside is the people spamming u on LinkedIn are absolute imbeciles im thinking about deleting my linkedin because its from before my transition and while theyll let you change your name they wont let you delete old reviews and poo poo, and ive never got a meaningful hit from linkedin. just lots of recruiters asking if i want to do tech support
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 16:31 |
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Bloody posted:the only downside is the people spamming u on LinkedIn are absolute imbeciles this morning's LinkedIn idiocy idiot recruiter posted:I wanted to reach out to see if you might be interested in chatting? me 😎 posted:I think you forgot to mention which company you're representing. Let me know.. idiot recruiter posted:Thanks for reaching out. note that he said "we" and "our" in his first email, but now he wants to represent me because he's a third party scumbag
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 16:54 |
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i did two phone interviews for a new position and they asked me to come for a final onsite. pretty sure it's a last check that im not a complete creep and they want me for the job cos they were willing to move the interview by a couple weeks to fit my schedule, but then they said they weren't going to put me up in a hotel and could I please provide them with a flight schedule which will allow me to get there and back on the same day, wtf
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The Management posted:this morning's LinkedIn idiocy the messages i get are hilariously awful for completely different reasons
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 18:19 |
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i have a good + cool job
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 18:46 |
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for a cert exam I understand bc they have to come up with a way to remotely proctor it but for an interview holy loving moly
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 18:47 |
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pleawe for gods sake screen webdev candidates for an understanding of callbacks i maintain a commercial product that includes a web page javascript file. since it does useful things, it depends on callbacks. half the integration failures are from customers who can't spell callback much less register one
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:15 |
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Just finished a nice interview with an ECN, talked about the problems of ZeroMQ and the dearth of IPv6.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:17 |
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currently interviewing but my best prospect so far is someone who knows me and wants to just hire me outright gently caress whiteboard interviews. i'd much rather pair on a kata or something. the latter is at least somewhat realistic to day to day
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:45 |
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my last interview the manager gave me a whiteboard problem but apparently had a single right solution he wanted but didn't give any hints towards and he also didn't know enough about the subject to answer my basic "who's buying this?" or "how complex is the average system?" he just wanted some magic iot bullshit answer
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:51 |
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bone app the teeth posted:currently interviewing but my best prospect so far is someone who knows me and wants to just hire me outright pretty much the best and easiest way to get any job. cronyism owns if you have enough cronies (although in general it is toxic and bad for both employers and prospective employees)
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:56 |
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he wanted you to design the iot butt thermometer
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big scary monsters posted:pretty much the best and easiest way to get any job. cronyism owns if you have enough cronies (although in general it is toxic and bad for both employers and prospective employees) yeah i actually worked there about 4 years ago and i was the first employee who quit that was "eligible for rehire" i've been surprised at how few ruby jobs there are in my area. and i'll probably be doing iOS anyway so whatever
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bone app the teeth posted:yeah i actually worked there about 4 years ago and i was the first employee who quit that was "eligible for rehire" ruby is pretty much dead at this point unless you love working on lovely legacy apps with unintelligible code
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 20:02 |
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the interview for the federal position i will hopefully start some time in the next few months was just an hour talking about my bullshit on github and how i handle looking up stuff i don't know. when they asked me about computer security i made a joke about emails and then said something about not rolling my own crypto and letting the math nerds handle that.
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triple sulk posted:working on lovely legacy apps with unintelligible code
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 22:43 |
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i would rather be waterboarded than whiteboarded
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 22:55 |
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I like coding on a whiteboard if it's a real coding question. the trick is to keep the question extremely simple so it doesn't get bogged down in the details of the code and focuses on the important aspects.
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i would rather be waterboarded than whiteboarded
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 00:04 |
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design/architecture questions are good on whiteboard, because that's a valid medium for solving design problems irl
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St Evan Echoes posted:this is all jobs though?????
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MrMoo posted:Interview last week, they had not prepared and made stuff up as they went. Actually nice programming challenge, basic FIX parser. Found bugs in their code for FIX constants too. I haven't heard anything so yet another rejection, woot. im having trouble fixing some bugs in my fix engine can you come over for an "interview"
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 00:43 |
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most important thing is to be a rock star and crush it. if the interviewer is not a bro it might be hard but you can pwn him with your ninja skillz
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Jonny 290 posted:amazon suuuuuucks do not work for them or normalize their hiring process lancemantis posted:whats the lovely toxic aspect of theirs?
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qirex posted:my last interview the manager gave me a whiteboard problem but apparently had a single right solution he wanted but didn't give any hints towards and he also didn't know enough about the subject to answer my basic "who's buying this?" or "how complex is the average system?" he just wanted some magic iot bullshit answer lol For me the worst part about interviewing is when you find a cool job, with cool people and they agree to your salary requirements, but then they hire someone else because they got low-balled through a recruiter. Fortunately that is normally only a problem with "big" companies where HR has metastasized into cost-savings center by deflating employee salary's. Otherwise new job Interviewing is pretty interesting, though intense. The Management posted:I like coding on a whiteboard if it's a real coding question. the trick is to keep the question extremely simple so it doesn't get bogged down in the details of the code and focuses on the important aspects. Most interviewers/people aren't smart enough to understand what they are trying to ask you to do in the first place, nor why.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:26 |
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is it evens possible to screen webdevs javascript skills seeing as 90% of people who write javascript code don't even know or care that they're using javascript vs fart.js
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 06:03 |
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btw those amazon proctoring rules seem p reasonable to me, the guy who wrote the page has an attitude that tends to prolong unemployment
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bone app the teeth posted:currently interviewing but my best prospect so far is someone who knows me and wants to just hire me outright A code kata is an exercise in programming which helps a programmer hone their skills through practice and repetition. The term was probably first coined by Dave Thomas, co-author of the book The Pragmatic Programmer,[1] in a bow to the Japanese concept of kata in the martial arts. As of October 2011, Dave Thomas has published 21 different katas.[2] is this what you ment? and can you please give me an example?
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Gazpacho posted:btw those amazon proctoring rules seem p reasonable to me, the guy who wrote the page has an attitude that tends to prolong unemployment handing control of your computer to a third party by installing their software on it seems reasonable to you?
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 12:09 |
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qntm posted:handing control of your computer to a third party by installing their software on it seems reasonable to you? the world is full of injustice. next they'll make you hand over dna so they can test you for drugs.
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Bloody posted:sure but its in boston and not good
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rsjr posted:the world is full of injustice. next they'll make you hand over dna so they can test you for drugs. i have never in my adult life worked somewhere that drug tests. have some dignity.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 14:49 |
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I love LinkedIn, every week I get a different headhunter contacting me about a JavaScript full stack developer position i.e. something I don't mention anywhere in my profile and have no interest in doing
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:actually, interviewing and job hunting owns because it's the best way to get a 40% salary bump and if you don't think this you should do more of it and then you end up pretty pro-af at interviewing
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:i have never in my adult life worked somewhere that drug tests. have some dignity. I don't do any drugs but I wouldn't work at a place that drug tests. it shows a fundamental disrespect for employees which is sure to manifest in other ways later. if someone wants to get high in their personal time it's none of the company's business.
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