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ratbert90 posted:Hello! I see you have the great experience with low-level Linux kernel C programming, here is a job that requires 10 years of Microsoft visual C++ experience, is located in the deep south, is a 6-month contract, and no possibility of working remote remote. please kindly get back to me for when we can set up an interview. this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA
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Munkeymon posted:this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA largest mall in america in terms of leasable space
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Munkeymon posted:this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA Munkeymon posted:this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA is there some tech presence there because this, too, is how I learned of King of Prussia
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i know ebay has a significant presence there idk about any other companies
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Glorgnole posted:it looks like the strategy some departments/divisions use when they already have somebody picked out for a position but HR makes them put out an actual posting, do interviews, etc so they're in compliance with whatever internal hiring process, so they just tailor the requirements to exclude everyone but the person or category they already have in mind. so yeah that's probably it. this is ok and should be encouraged if you have a job that's loving perfect for a foreign candidate, let's get that guy a visa, post-haste, and eliminate the bullshit
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The Management posted:isn't driving down wages the entire point of h1bs? the h-1b program was meant to fill high-skill, high-pay positions with foreigners on dual-intent visas in order to make market conditions a little easier on employers. it more or less works OK if you restrict your view to tech firms, who tend to live up to the program's ideal (e.g. microsoft) i mean, yeah, it definitely drives down wages, but that was a goal of the program. it wasn't meant to be used the way it is now, to import large numbers of indentured servants who are used to shitcan local workers. the key features of a good actor in the h-1b space:
the bad actors are, ironically, indian outsourcing firms. tata, infosys, and wipro make up the bulk of h-1b applications but file, collectively, less than ten green cards a year. there are so many loving scams
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yeah i've worked for places that used the h1b as intended and shops that abused the hell out of it. the difference is night & day the republican proposal to raise their minimum wage to 110-120 would be fine since the companies who aren't abusing it are already paying near that or above it already. the irony is that the companies that would scream about this the loudest would actually be helped by this- since i've seen what their bottom of the barrel practices does to their codebases. forcing them to pay for quality would actually help them in the long run
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it's not a Republican proposal. Zoe Lofgren of California is behind it, and she's a Democrat
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Maximo Roboto posted:it's not a Republican proposal. Zoe Lofgren of California is behind it, and she's a Democrat ted cruz was the first to propose it iirc but yes it has bipartisan support
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minivanmegafun posted:is there some tech presence there because this, too, is how I learned of King of Prussia just lockheed martin
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more like lockheed fartin'
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yeah i am an h-1b and that proposal sounds decent 
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minivanmegafun posted:is there some tech presence there because this, too, is how I learned of King of Prussia one of the big pick n' place manufactures is out there too
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I have an onsite interview with that place that I did the phone interview for 
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carry on then posted:lockheed fartin'
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the funding i thought was secure for a position i was going for has been delayed at least three months and it looks like i need to get a job in the meantime interviewing and job hunting is garbage
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big scary monsters posted:interviewing and job hunting is garbage 
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Phobeste posted:i wish hr people were in general more amenable to figuring out a way to schedule phone interviews for either lunch hours or after business. I'm dead set on leaving my current place but I still want to give them the time they're owed while I'm there it's the only good part about interviewing for a job across the country.
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big scary monsters posted:the funding i thought was secure for a position i was going for has been delayed at least three months and it looks like i need to get a job in the meantime academia sucks  keep applying for poo poo like you got rejected, take some temp academia work in the mean time (like teaching idiots or whatev) and pray that the coffinblockers disappear in a mysterious last hurrah before the apocalypse takes us all
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vodkat posted:academia sucks i heard one of my old labs is looking for an RA and i'm pretty certain they'd hire me back, though on the other hand there's a good reason i left that place might see if i can find a temporary computer toucher job. obviously it's pretty upsetting to leave my ivory tower and soil myself with application rather than pure theory, but i think the hiring process is probably faster and the pay is definitely better big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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big scary monsters posted:i heard one of my old labs is looking for an RA and i'm pretty certain they'd hire me back, though on the other hand there's a good reason i left that place don't leave the monastery of the ivory tower, those slutty tech bro's will corrupt your purity! but for real, if you think its just for a few months a RA position would probably be better, the difficult bit is getting your foot in the door from postgrad > actually paid academic, after that there is more flexibility but industry back to the ivory tower is a much harder transition to make (and you will be judged your fellows for leaving the purity of the catholic faith). that and the temptations of self esteem and some good figies you're much better off hating yourself for a few months ofc i'm sure you already know this, but its always worth repeating, the shitest bit is the transition, if you've cared enough to get this far at least give it a good few months to see how things pan out and take the time to evaluate your already terrible life choices
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yeah you're right of course. and i would actually prefer to stay in academia than industry (i am deeply broken i guess). feel kinda stupid because a friend and former colleague asked me a few weeks back to apply for a 3 year position at the lab he's set up and i didn't cos i felt it was a bit far outside my area and thought this other thing was wrapped up. but i'm meeting him for lunch next week so we'll see
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what would be ideal just now is a six month project that i don't have to move for, lets me bolster a few skills i want to work on and maybe get a publication at the end gotta dream big
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big scary monsters posted:yeah you're right of course. and i would actually prefer to stay in academia than industry (i am deeply broken i guess). feel kinda stupid because a friend and former colleague asked me a few weeks back to apply for a 3 year position at the lab he's set up and i didn't cos i felt it was a bit far outside my area and thought this other thing was wrapped up. but i'm meeting him for lunch next week so we'll see big scary monsters posted:what would be ideal just now is a six month project that i don't have to move for, lets me bolster a few skills i want to work on and maybe get a publication at the end everything sucks and nothing was ok, but its always good to vent anonymously so welcome to the 
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vodkat posted:everything sucks and nothing was ok, but its always good to vent anonymously don't get me wrong, working in research is the best and having tried both i'd mainly rather do it at a university than a company. but making professor by 30 is starting to look less and less reasonable...
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Going to do some informational interviews next week since wife and I are considering moving regions again--hope I can take most of my figgies with me 
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Phobeste posted:i wish hr people were in general more amenable to figuring out a way to schedule phone interviews for either lunch hours or after business. I'm dead set on leaving my current place but I still want to give them the time they're owed while I'm there they don't want to be the mistress, they want to be the new wife. they want you to show them that you are serious about leaving. nah, actually they're just lazy.
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big scary monsters posted:but making professor by 30 is starting to look less and less reasonable... ahahaha
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big scary monsters posted:
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nah i was kidding. my master's supervisor was legitimately a full prof at 30, but she's also incredibly driven and one of the most frighteningly smart people i've ever met. with that came being super demanding and pretty abrasive, so her students tended to either go on to great things or drop out for mental health reasons. i managed to avoid the latter, but the joke in the department was that i had to make prof by 30 too. she offered me a phd position but i dunno i'd have survived another four years of that sort of intensity so i went elsewhere
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big scary monsters posted:nah i was kidding. my master's supervisor was legitimately a full prof at 30, but she's also incredibly driven and one of the most frighteningly smart people i've ever met.
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big scary monsters posted:the academia as a pyramid scheme thing rings far too true from the BWM thread: pathetic little tramp posted:My phone doesn't take the best pictures in low light and I'm not great at taking photos anyway so some of these may be a little grainy before I figured out turning on the flash really helps, but they're readable. then a few weeks later:
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Maximo Roboto posted:it's not a Republican proposal. Zoe Lofgren of California is behind it, and she's a Democrat there are currently three things working their way through congress:
there is a broad base of bi-partisan support for h-1b reform, as long as it doesn't imperil microsoft/google/facebook-type use cases for h-1bs. yeah, this means foreign competition for entry level jobs. i would rather compete with qualified foreigners on an equal basis than try and compete with wipro/infosys/tata paying 1/3rd of the going wage
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Phobeste posted:i wish hr people were in general more amenable to figuring out a way to schedule phone interviews for either lunch hours or after business. I'm dead set on leaving my current place but I still want to give them the time they're owed while I'm there Ah yes, make your interviewers miss their lunch or stay late. This will definitely ingratiate you to them.
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got hit up by a recruiter that sent email to every combination of first and last @ current company. this always gives me such a scummy vibe. should I even deal with someone that's too cheap to pay for linkedin recruiting? oh, best part was this little gesture to get past the spam filter quote:The company can pay very competitive salaries (much higher than most similar startups), and is also offering equity which could be highly lu crative.
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lemme check my sources on this... oh... VOTE YES ON 69 posted:all recruiters are garbage fyi
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one of my friends used to be a recruiter and she was telling me this story about how when she was at a large tech company they moved a manager from sales operations to run recruiting and this new VP decided to set "stretch goals" for the recruiters that were 3x the current number of open reqs. so the recruiters busted their asses, hit the stretch goals and got a bonus but 2/3 of the people they'd "hired" didn't actually have available positions so yeah if you ever interviewed at a place known for its ball pits and then got an offer 3-9 months after you interviewed now you know why
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kickstarter, but for middle management
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