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OldAlias posted:got a link? not sure where it is https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415662
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Apr 30, 2017 05:50
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my current work did iq tests but no technical tests lol
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Apr 30, 2017 08:31
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cis autodrag posted:one thing i really appreciated with this apple interview was that the question had an obvious and correct answer (p much "there's a finite unchanging set of states, a simple switch or set of if-thens would be readable and perform fine") and the interviewer and i agreed basically instantly. then he asked me to just see if i could come up with a more "problem-y" way to do it which made me super comfortable because now it wasn't about proving i could program but about thinking of the most heinous code i could for fun (which is something i love to do if you read my tp thread posts at all). basically all that time i spend at work reimplementing simple problems over and over until i have the most obtuse possible solution came in handy and i felt right in my zone. You'd be surprised how many people would talk a good talk, and when it comes time to demonstrate any proficiency, write an n^2 loop and give you a blank stare when you ask if there's any potential performance problems. It's a major relief to have someone who understands what they are doing. Not that they're a god, but "hey maybe I can explain what the hell I just did, and it's not stream of consciousness keyboard vomit" TerminalRaptor fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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Apr 30, 2017 17:23
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Blinkz0rz posted:i wish we could just talk about the stuff we've done like literally every other field instead of taking stupid quizzes at least it's better than the mid-00s when all of that "interview 2.0" poo poo was in full swing everywhere and even people applying for menial jobs were getting grilled on "if you filled the super dome with water and dropped in a 747 filled with golfballs how much would the water level rise? please be precise to the millimeter."
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Apr 30, 2017 18:34
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next time I interview someone I, gong to give them a fully solved algorithm and ask them to introduce the subtlest bug they possibly can
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Apr 30, 2017 20:47
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Just ask the candidate to draw a map in two minutes that takes a minute to solve, OP
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May 1, 2017 03:53
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apple wants me to come out for an onsite! now we find out new ways for me to embarrass myself in technical interviews. also i need to find dates i can conceivably attribute to family events.
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May 1, 2017 21:11
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nice. uh, your aunt is suddenly very sick, you will have to go see her in California.
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May 1, 2017 21:28
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Gotta go visit uncle timb
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May 1, 2017 23:05
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gently caress take-home coding tests that have you re-implementing known systems, this is stupid, you can use Grafana to do a better job than my halfass CLI thing, gently caress. thankfully that was two weeks ago, I already got my 6.something figgies offer and peaced out of my current company. current place wants an exit interview, but lol you're in the boston market and not offering a 401k, because "no other company of our size does this" (~1k people), your insurance premiums have gotten complicated and went way up, and you think that you can get away with getting people to do devops work for under 80k. In Boston. And you're wondering why literally anybody with half a brain has been slowly hopping off this train over the past year and a half.
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May 1, 2017 23:20
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a good 401k setup should be right behind decent health insurance in the "how to retain actual goddamn adults at your company" playbook
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May 1, 2017 23:24
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perks children care about: - ping pong table - free food - happy hours - branded hoodies things adults like: - retirement benefits - flex time/remote work - low copays - babby leave
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May 1, 2017 23:27
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note: promise of an IPO next year, no really guiz, is not a retaining factor to anybody who isn't functionally retarded.
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May 1, 2017 23:29
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qirex posted:perks children care about : - "unlimited" vacation time - collaborative open floor plan quote:things adults like: - actual company obligated vacation time - quiet office
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May 1, 2017 23:37
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qirex posted:perks children care about : free food every day is something like $2000 over a year. way better than ping pong tables or hoodies.
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May 1, 2017 23:39
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qirex posted:perks children care about : the perks children care about are a lot cheaper to provide
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May 1, 2017 23:41
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leper khan posted:free food every day is something like $2000 over a year. way better than ping pong tables or hoodies. its about crowding out your (legally mandated!) personal time in favor of work time
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May 1, 2017 23:41
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leper khan posted:free food every day is something like $2000 over a year. way better than ping pong tables or hoodies. sure but I'd much rather have 2 grand more in salary or 401k match
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May 1, 2017 23:42
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reminder to everyone to max out their 401k match like why the gently caress is this even an option, "how much do you want to contribute? we'll match up to 4%!" if I was king poo poo of the corporation I'd order hr to fire anyone stupid enough to contribute less than the maximum match because I don't want idiots working for me
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May 1, 2017 23:50
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FrozenVent posted:reminder to everyone to max out their 401k match like every article aimed at dumb people to try and get them to improve their personal finances always starts with "max your 401k match" and "pay down your high apr credit cards" as tips #1 and #2
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May 1, 2017 23:57
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FrozenVent posted:if I was king poo poo of the corporation I'd order hr to fire anyone stupid enough to contribute less than the maximum match because I don't want idiots working for me  my last employer used to just dump 1-2% in as "profit sharing" every spring it was really nice
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May 2, 2017 00:01
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FrozenVent posted:if I was king poo poo of the corporation I'd order hr to fire anyone stupid enough to contribute less than the maximum match because I don't want idiots working for me
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May 2, 2017 00:08
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being a 401k fund manager has got to be the sweetest racket in existence "so every year i get given a gigantic pile of money that i can skim 4% off the top of and i can piss away anywhere up to half of that pile every year and people will continue to eagerly shovel money at me? GOD drat *inhales a swiss roll made entirely out of cocaine*"
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May 2, 2017 00:10
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FrozenVent posted:reminder to everyone to max out their 401k match i didn't max out my match my first job out of college because i was, in fact, an idiot. "hurr durr need to pay off my student loans before i start saving for retirement"
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May 2, 2017 00:11
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The Management posted:- "unlimited" vacation time i was real worried newjob was going to be an "unlimited" vacation place but nope, actual vacation time and paid sick days on top. i might finally be working for/with grownups??
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May 2, 2017 00:21
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my last employer just told you your salary then mandated that they reduce it by x% and then they contributed x% + 2*x% to the 401k which means that as the employee you legally contributed 0 dollars to retirement accounts and it can help you weasel under the roth ira salary limits since a huge portion of their employees were salaried right around that line employers assisting employees in exploiting tax loopholes are a good benefit
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May 2, 2017 00:52
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Bloody posted:my last employer just told you your salary then mandated that they reduce it by x% and then they contributed x% + 2*x% to the 401k which means that as the employee you legally contributed 0 dollars to retirement accounts and it can help you weasel under the roth ira salary limits since a huge portion of their employees were salaried right around that line does it have to be percentages or can they just cut a check for $19500 (or whatever it is this year) at that point?
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May 2, 2017 00:58
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its pitched as "5% with 2:1 matching" (and a 5 year vest on half of the match)
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May 2, 2017 01:05
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Mahatma Goonsay posted:yeah it was comically bad. I wrote a bunch of if statements testing equally with = instead ==. [ASK] Me about trying to write code in any reasonable language when most of my time is spent in Excel macros.
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May 2, 2017 01:30
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you can use an Excel sheet as an ADO source to do the real work in a real language and just poo poo it back out into the sheet to make the marketing VP happy I like to think of it as a Pittsburgh database
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May 2, 2017 02:05
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SSIS is great for dumb excel poo poo
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May 2, 2017 02:11
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= is comparison in most of the languages i use based on context. it's poison.
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May 2, 2017 02:31
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I'm working for one of the rare places that grants unlimited vacation and gives you a funny look if you don't take PTO every quarter it's great
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May 2, 2017 02:51
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Rex-Goliath posted:I'm working for one of the rare places that grants unlimited vacation and gives you a funny look if you don't take PTO every quarter it's great same. it's so drat weird. "are you taking enough time off this month? go schedule some more time off. it's nice outside, leave work early and ride your bike."
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May 2, 2017 02:55
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Rex-Goliath posted:I'm working for one of the rare places that grants unlimited vacation and gives you a funny look if you don't take PTO every quarter it's great i hope i'm not falling for a trap at an unlimited vacation place where the team i'm joining took an average of 7 weeks off last year i'd be calling bullshit, but i've got a man on the inside who has been there 5 months, taken 5 weeks of vacation in that time, and the VP and director were telling me how much they like him
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May 2, 2017 03:16
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Twerk from Home posted:i hope i'm not falling for a trap at an unlimited vacation place where the team i'm joining took an average of 7 weeks off last year yeah unfortunately there's no real way to tell until you're in. i was really pensive when i first signed up here but it wound up exceeding my expectations. i guess my rule of thumb now is to judge if the rest of the company culture / bennies jives with the pto. if it does then it's probably for real
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May 2, 2017 03:19
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I asked how many weeks developers typically take off per year at my last interview with an "unlimited" company and the response was "generally we don't take off weeks, just long weekends". Probably for the best I didn't get an offer from there. Shaggar posted:SSIS is great for dumb excel poo poo We had a fresh out of uni guy recently who's solution to literally any database concern was to talk about building an SSIS package. It was a super weird thing to work around.
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May 2, 2017 03:44
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so, uh, what is an on site interview like at a non dysfunctional company? here it was even more tests, a bunch of bragging about the facilities and then am awkward one on one with a member of each team you were interviewing with.
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May 2, 2017 04:02
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Iverron posted:I asked how many weeks developers typically take off per year at my last interview with an "unlimited" company and the response was "generally we don't take off weeks, just long weekends". Probably for the best I didn't get an offer from there. ssis is really fuckin good.
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May 2, 2017 04:03
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cis autodrag posted:so, uh, what is an on site interview like at a non dysfunctional company? here it was even more tests, a bunch of bragging about the facilities and then am awkward one on one with a member of each team you were interviewing with. they're going to put you in an interview room. one or two interviewers at a time for 30-60 minutes are going to ask you technical and coding questions. they'll take you to lunch. it'll be a long day.
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May 2, 2017 04:46
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