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I've been doing some RDD myself lately, but to be fair this place is a hellhole and I'm still producing good software. Code for the job you want? 
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Volmarias posted:Please no We see a big paradigm shift in the industry towards gamification of work so the new initiative is going to be based on your team making a new cloud based machine learning AI butt clicker game that outputs SVC and xls files. Thanks.
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Feb 10, 2017 13:55
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No microservices, microtransactions or DLC? You disappoint me. Sad.
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Volmarias posted:Please no If it's any solace, the day I realized that I was doing a business application in loving Unity, I redid it in WinForms which is arguably better, I guess.
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Gildiss posted:We see a big paradigm shift in the industry towards gamification of work so the new initiative is going to be based on your team making a new cloud based machine learning AI butt clicker game that outputs SVC and xls files. Thanks. But can I pay to win?
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Just discovered that after updating my java version I'd set my JAVA_HOME variable to a jre  it's been like this for about a monthcan it be 5pm yet?
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Not gonna lie I made some data display by drawing in a Canvas once because I didn't want to deal with arranging some divs properly.
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Polio Vax Scene posted:Not gonna lie I made some data display by drawing in a Canvas once because I didn't want to deal with arranging some divs properly. My hero 
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Polio Vax Scene posted:Not gonna lie I made some data display by drawing in a Canvas once because I didn't want to deal with arranging some divs properly. Wow, we really need display: grid; to be widely supported already.
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Feb 11, 2017 01:19
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ToxicSlurpee posted:But can I pay to win? You have to win to get paid
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Dred_furst posted:So we had a dumb thing happen over the past few months. I'll preface this with I'm out of there very soon! God drat dude. I would have left that place like 7 months ago. I don't even do TDD but this is bullshit.
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Feb 14, 2017 01:40
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The highest three officers/managers in our organization got fired today. 
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Feb 17, 2017 22:09
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Pollyanna posted:The highest three officers/managers in our organization got fired today. Blood for the c levels, skulls for the scapegoat throne 
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Feb 17, 2017 22:17
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If they're "officers" then they were the C levels? Skulls for the board throne I guess. In any case, that seems like the strongest sign possible to polish the ole resume...
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Feb 17, 2017 23:26
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Well, not c-levels. VPs, senior managers, etc. The actual c-levels are three hours away continuing to run the company into the ground.  But at least the workers are still around...for now.Either way, definitely a warning sign.
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Feb 18, 2017 01:48
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Just wait until you meet the new guys they brought in to replace them!
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Feb 18, 2017 03:48
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Pollyanna posted:Well, not c-levels. VPs, senior managers, etc. The actual c-levels are three hours away continuing to run the company into the ground. Warning? That implies things may go well. It's practically a war dec, GTFO.
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A nine person scrum just took twenty minutes. It felt like forty. I think I just need to start calling these things "morning meetings" and lower my expectations.
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Kaiju15 posted:A nine person scrum just took twenty minutes. It felt like forty. Mine took 7 minutes. We were 9 too. Your Scrum Master probably need to interrupt people diverging a bit more. Did everyone take about 2 minutes or was it more like a few people took 5 minutes and the rest 30 seconds ?
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Was wondering if I could get some advice from this thread. A month or so ago our only Sr developer was fired(which is a very long story, but the short of it was that he brought it on himself), and next week our manager is interviewing 2 candidates for the open position. The kicker is that he would like me and one other team member to also interview the people, both to ensure that they actually know their stuff and that they would be a good fit for the team. Neither of us have ever interviewed anyone before, and most of the interviews I've been on the other end of have been complete bullshit. I don't see any real value to asking someone to code some algorithm on a whiteboard. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources I could read to find good interview questions for a Sr dev position.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Was wondering if I could get some advice from this thread. A month or so ago our only Sr developer was fired(which is a very long story, but the short of it was that he brought it on himself), and next week our manager is interviewing 2 candidates for the open position. The kicker is that he would like me and one other team member to also interview the people, both to ensure that they actually know their stuff and that they would be a good fit for the team. Neither of us have ever interviewed anyone before, and most of the interviews I've been on the other end of have been complete bullshit. I don't see any real value to asking someone to code some algorithm on a whiteboard. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources I could read to find good interview questions for a Sr dev position. Vulture Culture posted:I used to actually do a thing in my in-person interviews where I'd give a person a code sample to read and explain. I wouldn't pay any mind whatsoever to their thought process or how well they understood the code. I would watch them instead. If they looked pissed about having to do it, it was a yellow flag. Seems like a good one for any position
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AskYourself posted:Mine took 7 minutes. We were 9 too. Yeah, that definitely sounds like a problem with the facilitator.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Was wondering if I could get some advice from this thread. A month or so ago our only Sr developer was fired(which is a very long story, but the short of it was that he brought it on himself), and next week our manager is interviewing 2 candidates for the open position. The kicker is that he would like me and one other team member to also interview the people, both to ensure that they actually know their stuff and that they would be a good fit for the team. Neither of us have ever interviewed anyone before, and most of the interviews I've been on the other end of have been complete bullshit. I don't see any real value to asking someone to code some algorithm on a whiteboard. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources I could read to find good interview questions for a Sr dev position. Small, meaningful take home challenges (i.e. take a JSON feed and do things with it). Give a time limit of an hour or so. Make sure you could complete it well within that time limit. Give the test to a coworker before you give it to a prospect (spelling errors and contradictory instructions are red flags and more common than you'd think). If their work passes, ask them to explain their code when they come in. If they have any code on Github, have them explain that. I really like VC's idea too. Iverron fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Khisanth Magus posted:Was wondering if I could get some advice from this thread. A month or so ago our only Sr developer was fired(which is a very long story, but the short of it was that he brought it on himself), and next week our manager is interviewing 2 candidates for the open position. The kicker is that he would like me and one other team member to also interview the people, both to ensure that they actually know their stuff and that they would be a good fit for the team. Neither of us have ever interviewed anyone before, and most of the interviews I've been on the other end of have been complete bullshit. I don't see any real value to asking someone to code some algorithm on a whiteboard. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources I could read to find good interview questions for a Sr dev position. Just pair program for half an hour, let them drive. Don't treat it like a test, just treat it like working with them and actually help when you can. Pick a problem too big to finish in that half hour, make sure they know it's too big to finish and not expected.
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Pair program for an hour on a small toy problem or a small, non-sensitive story from an actual project (ideally one that you are pretty sure you already know how to implement). Set the development environment up completely beforehand. Work on it the way you'd actually work. Let them drive most of the time, ask leading questions if they seem stuck, and encourage them to vocalize their thought process and ask questions. Don't expect to finish it during that time, because they'll be nervous and unfamiliar, but do make sure it's something that could reasonably be finished in that time by a comfortable and confident person already familiar with the codebase and domain. No trick questions. At the end, the most important question is, "Would I want to work with this person every day?"
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Kaiju15 posted:A nine person scrum just took twenty minutes. It felt like forty. Your team is too large.
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Kaiju15 posted:A nine person scrum just took twenty minutes. It felt like forty. Seems about right. Our 11 person one that's actually TWO teams + mgmt time takes 45 a day. I decided to stop dying on that hill complaining about it and get a free 45 minutes
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Virigoth posted:Seems about right. Our 11 person one that's actually TWO teams + mgmt time takes 45 a day. I decided to stop dying on that hill complaining about it and get a free 45 minutes Fight to be the presenter and open up a meeting cost clock.
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Haha at my first job we had a team of~50 (including devs, BAs, SQAs, etc) and stand-up only took like 10 minutes. It was awesomely efficient.
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Doghouse posted:Haha at my first job we had a team of~50 (including devs, BAs, SQAs, etc) and stand-up only took like 10 minutes. It was awesomely efficient. And useless I would guess. No way are you doing anything meaningful in 10 seconds per person. That meeting is replaceable with a Jira board.
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baquerd posted:And useless I would guess. No way are you doing anything meaningful in 10 seconds per person. That meeting is replaceable with a Jira board. I remember that at a AAA game studio. Full team stand ups. All the artists would arrange themselves so they could go: Character name high poly model Same Same Same Same Same Vehicle low poly model Same Vehicle high poly model Same Same And be done in 10 seconds... Biggest waste of time possible.
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baquerd posted:Fight to be the presenter and open up a meeting cost clock. This is an amazing idea but if we can go on a 15 minute derail about some of the dumbest poo poo I doubt that this would phase them.
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Our stand up is always half "same as John" because we pair up. Very efficient.
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AskYourself posted:
We're more of a scrummerfall company. We don't really have a scrum master, and I've been told that I need to be burning down five hours worth of tasks every day. AskYourself posted:
It's a few people going for two to three minutes and then "providing input" on every other person's turn. My turn was two sentences.
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It's not really a Scrum if there is not falicitator, it's more of an ad-hoc meeting. Every morning...
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Stand ups are only useful for forcing a completely disfunctional team to communicate with each other. Otherwise most people know how to tell others what they are doing and if they need help in real-time throughout the day. In theory.
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Gildiss posted:Stand ups are only useful for forcing a completely disfunctional team to communicate with each other. Otherwise most people know how to tell others what they are doing and if they need help in real-time throughout the day. In theory. Most teams in most (read: not top-tier) companies will have at least one member that isn't necessarily dysfunctional, but that simply isn't proactive or motivated. It is sometimes incredibly hard to deal with these people unless you are their manager and have some control over discretionary compensation, but that's really an aside. The point is that these people need to be tasked, and without standups they will happily sit there doing nothing until told something to do. Some ultra mild group shaming in standup can be effective (e.g. "Could you take something more today if you get your work done? What would that be? What specifically do you want to accomplish today, can you talk me through it?"). Some people need that sort of near-hourly accountability to keep them productive, while it's a terrible strategy to use with otherwise effective devs.
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baquerd posted:Most teams in most (read: not top-tier) companies will have at least one member that isn't necessarily dysfunctional, but that simply isn't proactive or motivated. It is sometimes incredibly hard to deal with these people unless you are their manager and have some control over discretionary compensation, but that's really an aside. The point is that these people need to be tasked, and without standups they will happily sit there doing nothing until told something to do. Some ultra mild group shaming in standup can be effective (e.g. "Could you take something more today if you get your work done? What would that be? What specifically do you want to accomplish today, can you talk me through it?"). Some people need that sort of near-hourly accountability to keep them productive, while it's a terrible strategy to use with otherwise effective devs. I see you and I have worked with the same people. Sometimes they get fired, but more often they skate on with nothing in sight to stop them being awful and lazy. It's kind of depressing.
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Gildiss posted:Stand ups are only useful for forcing a completely disfunctional team to communicate with each other. Otherwise most people know how to tell others what they are doing and if they need help in real-time throughout the day. In theory. I think the idea of a standup works well, as long as the terseness rule is strongly enforced. Getting a high-level view of what other developers are doing, and particularly their challenges, can be useful for the team as a whole. Dev 1: Yesterday I did foo and bar, and today I'm working on implementing a ZZZ parser. Dev 2: I did..., and hey Dev1, I wrote a ZZZ parser before, I can take a look with you if you want.
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