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Stymie posted:or you can tolerate working for bofa deez nuts
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Agile Vector posted:*makes financial software gesture* flipping off the screen? or the universal gesture for "make it rain?"
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i got a phone interview tomorrow im excited about doing golang stuff for a recently ipo'd company which sounds like a good middle ground between corporate and startup but maybe it's bad for some reason nope. i think it was glassdoor or someone like that but they did a survey and found that generally the sweet spot for happiness & compensation & all the rest is generally at the mid-size company level. small enough so that you don't disappear into corporate ennui but big enough that they actually make money and the life of the company won't be in your hands on a daily basis
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Cocoa Crispies posted:flipping off the screen? or the universal gesture for "make it rain?" first one (the platform is fifteen years old) then the other (but we need to keep developing for it)
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:arent you a pharmicist? in the us pharmacists can make six figgies just riding the counter at any walgreens and there's not nearly enough pharmacists to cover demand. how are you job hopping this much? is zealand novo really that different? locums is medical speak for "contract work in the middle of nowhere for $$$$"
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Jan 9, 2017 14:33
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Maximo Roboto posted:are there any u.s. cities with a lot of tech jobs besides SF/NY/LA/Seattle/ATX
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Maximo Roboto posted:are there any u.s. cities with a lot of tech jobs besides SF/NY/LA/Seattle/ATX Chicago has a healthy startup scene and a large fintech/healthtech base if that's your thing
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Jan 9, 2017 14:59
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boston has buttloads of biotech, mostly pharma. there's your usual smattering of startup software crap too. we've got a google office, a facebook, a microsoft, a couple different amazons, a twitter, a fitbit. we got our own not-uber. we got draftkings
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or just work remotely and live wherever you want and work wherever you want 
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Rex-Goliath posted:nope. i think it was glassdoor or someone like that but they did a survey and found that generally the sweet spot for happiness & compensation & all the rest is generally at the mid-size company level. small enough so that you don't disappear into corporate ennui but big enough that they actually make money and the life of the company won't be in your hands on a daily basis mid-size companies are great, especially if they aren't household names and their industry is just "necessary business poo poo" rather than something inherently exciting
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:arent you a pharmicist? in the us pharmacists can make six figgies just riding the counter at any walgreens and there's not nearly enough pharmacists to cover demand. how are you job hopping this much? is zealand novo really that different? not the same over here unfortch.. money's good but not fantastic and job market currently average ....
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Rex-Goliath posted:the sweet spot for happiness & compensation & all the rest is generally at the mid-size company level. small enough so that you don't disappear into corporate ennui but big enough that they actually make money and the life of the company won't be in your hands on a daily basis mega 
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Jan 9, 2017 18:30
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JewKiller 3000 posted:mid-size companies are great, especially if they aren't household names and their industry is just "necessary business poo poo" rather than something inherently exciting  i really just want to work on mediocre business poo poo!
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Jan 9, 2017 18:33
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:
Wouldn't you rather be pulling all nighter crunches working for doober ( uber for dogs) in return for sweet sweet worthless equity
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jre posted:Wouldn't you rather be pulling all nighter crunches working for doober ( uber for dogs) in return for sweet sweet worthless equity this is what yospos actually thinks startups are like
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:
mediocre business poo poo pays good, has actual longterm sustainability, and won't pay you entirely in fake stock. it's not glamourous but it'll let you live nice when you retire.
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Jan 9, 2017 18:47
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i just want to live god drat it
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Bloody posted:boston has buttloads of biotech, mostly pharma. there's your usual smattering of startup software crap too. we've got a google office, a facebook, a microsoft, a couple different amazons, a twitter, a fitbit. we got our own not-uber. we got draftkings quotin' it also has tons of academia, which is a good source of tech jobs in a massively different work environment
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echinopsis posted:i just want to live god drat it same, but the opposite
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:this is what yospos actually thinks startups are like the least realistic part of HBO's Silicon Valley is that the startup has a breakthrough technology
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i wouldn't even put atx on that list IDK about Seattle but Austin has offices for: Dell, IBM, NXP, Apple, Intel, Samsung, Blizzard, National Instruments, Flextronics, Applied Materials, AMD, Amazon, HomeAway, Oracle, BAE, Cirrus Logic, Cisco, Bazaarvoice, EA, Facebook, Google, Indeed, WP Engine, Mutual Mobile, Rackspace, Silicon Labs, VMWare, SolarWinds, ARM... Those are the ones where I know where they are, but there are also lots of startups that I don't know about because I never look at jobs in startups.
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Rex-Goliath posted:small enough so that you don't disappear into corporate ennui but big enough that they actually make money and the life of the company won't be in your hands on a daily basis what's the body count on a midlevel, ~150?
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Jan 9, 2017 19:54
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the best thing about programming is that it's distilled problem solving, so it's satisfying at a nerdy technical level even when the subject matter is mundane. if you don't agree then how did you manage to get through school?
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I'm pretty sure that Seattle has a ton of satellite offices of Silicon Valley firms, it's been tied with NY for second banana to SV for a long time.
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JewKiller 3000 posted:the best thing about programming is that it's distilled problem solving, so it's satisfying at a nerdy technical level even when the subject matter is mundane. if you don't agree then how did you manage to get through school? i've never heard "problem solving" used as a euphemism for masturbation before MOM DON'T COME IN I'M PROBLEM SOLVING
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echinopsis posted:i just want to live god drat it fffuckin 
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Why do people always recommend CLRS for technical interview prep. Even for learning algorithms when in college it's like a thousand pages long and is mostly composed of mathematical proofs. Is the Algorithm Design Manual any good for brushing up for whiteboarding?
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Maximo Roboto posted:Why do people always recommend CLRS for technical interview prep. Even for learning algorithms when in college it's like a thousand pages long and is mostly composed of mathematical proofs. Is the Algorithm Design Manual any good for brushing up for whiteboarding? because it sounds impressive. i mean, it does cover a lot of ground but i think it's just too much to use to study for an interview. unfortunately i don't have specific recommendations but i feel like i learned most of the algorithm stuff applicable to interviews in my earlier data structures or discrete math classes. dynamic programming is probably the only thing that was new to me that could be used, stuff like algorithmic complexity they'll probably expect you to know some common stuff but not to run akra-bazzi on the whiteboard. but all this depends on the technical level of the interview. idk about the other thing you mentioned though
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C.H.O.M.E posted:IDK about Seattle but Austin has offices for: yeah but are these actual offices or just homes for salesmen and contract support types Maximo Roboto posted:Why do people always recommend CLRS for technical interview prep. Even for learning algorithms when in college it's like a thousand pages long and is mostly composed of mathematical proofs. Is the Algorithm Design Manual any good for brushing up for whiteboarding? You don't really have to exhaustively read a textbook; its just a great reference manual for you to scan and find your weak points in or things you may have not encountered
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poor minneapolis, used to be big on the hardware front but no more
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:mediocre business poo poo pays good, has actual longterm sustainability, and won't pay you entirely in fake stock. it's not glamourous but it'll let you live nice when you retire.
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carry on then posted:poor minneapolis, used to be big on the hardware front but no more Minneapolis was also culturally big, right? I heard it was like the place for punk music in the '80s the same way Seattle was for grunge in the '70s. plus Prince came from there and all that
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welp, that phone interview went about as well as it can possibly go
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Had an onsite initial interview with the hiring IT director that went well back before Christmas, hadn't heard anything so I sent a followup email to the internal recruiter last week to see if they had moved to the technical interview selections. He just got back to me and there's still hope, they haven't moved on to the second round yet. I really need to get the gently caress out of my current job and this one would be a perfect next step up. Not to mention they're profitable, properly support their IT systems, and have some cool plans going on to take their internal app and rewrite it and sell it as SaaS in their market niche. I'll definitely be hitting the technical people with the questions outlined earlier, I don't want to jump ship to another terrible company just because I want out of my current one. That's what happened at Job-2, and, well, thankfully I got out of that trainwreck before it completely imploded.
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lancemantis posted:yeah but are these actual offices or just homes for salesmen and contract support types all of those companies do engineering here
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it was a pretty hosed up, toxic culture but I did get some really good resume fodder and some good people to network with - the infrastructure team had good people.
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carry on then posted:poor minneapolis, used to be big on the hardware front but no more a lot of medical hardware still; that's all that was there other than 3m right?
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I have a computer touching job in Minneapolis. it's in healthcare. there's a lot of those kinds of jobs.
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