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Captain Foo posted:LARPS is good, and cool
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Mar 3, 2020 00:13
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silvergoose posted:
Let me tell you about my vampersona - hey wait where are you going??
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Mar 3, 2020 01:30
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Recruiter sent me into an interview expecting the workload to be 2.5x what it actually was but I didn't find that out until the end of the interview when it was too late to course correct How are recruiters always this bad
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Mar 4, 2020 20:52
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at my on-site interview yesterday I washed my hands upon arrival but nonetheless 3 of 5 interviewers refused to shake my hand and now a company I was interviewing for Tuesday has closed its offices until further notice. the bay is going bonkers over beer flu
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Mar 4, 2020 21:42
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Gazpacho posted:at my on-site interview yesterday I washed my hands upon arrival but nonetheless 3 of 5 interviewers refused to shake my hand Seeking new opportunities in the bay area must be able to telework from my hermetically sealed home office "fun"-ker
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Mar 4, 2020 22:10
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Gazpacho posted:at my on-site interview yesterday I washed my hands upon arrival but nonetheless 3 of 5 interviewers refused to shake my hand 20-60% of peeps will get it in the us, or so that one epidemiologist guesses. 3.4% fatality rate. so mass graves and poo poo are on the table
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Mar 5, 2020 04:01
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bob dobbs is dead posted:20-60% of peeps will get it in the us, or so that one epidemiologist guesses. 3.4% fatality rate. so mass graves and poo poo are on the table fine I guess
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Mar 5, 2020 04:26
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bob dobbs is dead posted:20-60% of peeps will get it in the us, or so that one epidemiologist guesses. 3.4% fatality rate. so mass graves and poo poo are on the table
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Mar 5, 2020 04:54
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bob dobbs is dead posted:20-60% of peeps will get it in the us, or so that one epidemiologist guesses. 3.4% fatality rate. so mass graves and poo poo are on the table most of them terrible boomers and if we’re lucky people who refuse to vaccinate
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Mar 5, 2020 08:08
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Got another in person interview today. I'm getting an offer tomorrow from another place so this can only help me, yet I am still nervous
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Mar 5, 2020 18:26
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I'm done, it went pretty alright. I might actually have 2 job offers soon!
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Mar 5, 2020 23:42
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PokeJoe posted:I'm done, it went pretty alright. I might actually have 2 job offers soon! Make them fight
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Mar 5, 2020 23:52
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no! make them kiss. best kisser gets you
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Mar 6, 2020 00:48
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When it comes to negotiation there are two diametrically opposed schools of thought
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Mar 6, 2020 00:50
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Asleep Style posted:When it comes to negotiation there are two diametrically opposed schools of thought I just want to say I really appreciate this post
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Mar 6, 2020 00:55
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So, I actually had the opportunity of actually interviewing with a company that doesn't suck! It's kind of a breath of fresh air to actually have the experience of going through this after all of the lovely "full stack know it all" expectations I've been seeing.
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Mar 6, 2020 01:12
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the two kinds of programming interviews I see are: 1) I am trying to see your thought process and see if I can get along with you talking through a problem 2) I want to quiz you about minutiae/gotchas then if you forget something I *might* pedantically explain it but I’ll probably just kinda sigh disappointedly and move on never take a job at a place where they do the 2nd kind.
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Mar 6, 2020 01:58
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drunk mutt posted:So, I actually had the opportunity of actually interviewing with a company that doesn't suck! unless you have a backchannel who you know is more loyal to you than the company say it and you know also that this isnt a bait and switch, you don't know this
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Mar 6, 2020 04:51
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bob dobbs is dead posted:unless you have a backchannel who you know is more loyal to you than the company say it and you know also that this isnt a bait and switch, you don't know this in my experience most companies of a reasonable size (a couple thousand or more people) with a reasonable level of professionalism (actually separate/professional HR and so on) are the same, what makes one place good to actually work at (or not) is your immediate team and coworkers. for smaller companies I have no experience there but from my friends at smaller companies it seems all personality driven and like it can turn terrible at any moment.
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Mar 6, 2020 05:56
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:in my experience most companies of a reasonable size (a couple thousand or more people) with a reasonable level of professionalism (actually separate/professional HR and so on) are the same, what makes one place good to actually work at (or not) is your immediate team and coworkers. the bait and switch goes, offer for team 1, you get assigned to team 2 instead
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Mar 6, 2020 05:58
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interviewing is garbage: we got a good woman candidate in a department overwhelmingly populated by men, who didn't have much experience in the tech we primarily work with, but clearly had a wealth of experience with something ancillary to it. said ancillary thing is something we need to know how to work with, have a dearth of experience with a team, and is an extremely uncommon candidate skill (this candidate is literally the first we've had, ever). at least during my interview she did well enough troubleshooting an issue in our primary domain to demonstrate that she wasn't starting from zero and had the right thought process for our work. our boss more or less declined her because some late-40s dude thought she wasn't sufficiently skilled in our primary area of work, between my strong recommendation and an undecided interviewer. was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt since we don't really get enough women candidates to identify a trend buuuuuuut i got seated with a new hire he'd strongly recommended during a diversity exercise who had some ...interesting things to say. like does to hire like... on top of this, it's rare to find /anyone/ with a great deal of of capability in our area of work, since people with that skillset can reasonably find a job at twice our salary. our boss is convinced just finding perfect out of the box employees though the hiring process will be easier (despite low af unemployment) than developing a proper training program
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Mar 6, 2020 06:13
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your boss sucks and is stupid, OP
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Mar 6, 2020 06:41
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double ur pay idiot, yotj it
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Mar 6, 2020 06:55
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yeah do you also work at half market rate?
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Mar 6, 2020 07:35
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:on top of this, it's rare to find /anyone/ with a great deal of of capability in our area of work, since people with that skillset can reasonably find a job at twice our salary.
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Mar 6, 2020 10:32
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Sounds like your dumb sexist boss did the candidate a favour.
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Mar 6, 2020 13:52
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:for smaller companies I have no experience there but from my friends at smaller companies it seems all personality driven and like it can turn terrible at any moment. smaller companies and companies that grow by acquisition suck because the person heading your department was probably selected for their ability to kiss the CEO or owner's rear end and everything about your job can change in a single pissed off email i am dealing with this right now where my boss of five years was shitcanned over an issue that was never reported to our team, literally got fired over a piece of equipment breaking in another state that we didnt know was broken or actively monitor, it wasn't even operations critical this is why im looking for a new job, i had a recruiter call me for a government job and they spent forty minutes warning me about all the beauracracy and it was practically erotic after working at a place that doesn't have a single firm process for half a decade
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Mar 6, 2020 15:00
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Mirthless posted:this is why im looking for a new job, i had a recruiter call me for a government job and they spent forty minutes warning me about all the beauracracy and it was practically erotic after working at a place that doesn't have a single firm process for half a decade i'm about to start a job at a hyuuuge company coming from a startup for this exact reason. fully expecting to hate it for totally different reasons eventuallly but it is going to be a very chill break for a while
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Mar 6, 2020 17:07
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I went from 4 tech companies in a row to one of the biggest banks and while it definitely had its own problems the lack of constant panic mode grind is what made me stay in the financial industry after I quit said bank like there's crunch time at big companies but usually it's because some other part of the process got held up so you've had time to figure out the tricky parts while you were waiting
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Mar 6, 2020 17:18
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PokeJoe posted:yeah do you also work at half market rate? i work above market rate /for my position/, which is well enough money for me to live comfortably. i also get to pay minimal attention to my supposed official role while doing a bunch of resume-driven development work on kubernetes poo poo, and will probably jump ship after long enough doing that the better paid role would require more on-call work and i'd like to move away from that
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Mar 6, 2020 17:52
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Corla Plankun posted:i'm about to start a job at a hyuuuge company coming from a startup for this exact reason. be prepared for: everything taking a long time due to sign off loops. for example do you need a new unix group access to do something on your new project? wait a week for gatekeeping from whichever group controls it, etc. projects taking forever to get started because purchasing and provisioning for new infrastructure/IT stuff takes forever. need new NFS space or a new tool for your new project? you should have started asking 2 months ago. otoh your paycheck will never bounce because “someone forgot to do payroll” and you can probably call an ergonomics person to get a fancy little foot stool for your plantar fasciitis and little things like that.
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Mar 6, 2020 19:05
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:i work above market rate /for my position/, which is well enough money for me to live comfortably. i also get to pay minimal attention to my supposed official role while doing a bunch of resume-driven development work on kubernetes poo poo, and will probably jump ship after long enough doing that thats fair I paid a buttload of dollars for a masters to escape on call work after doing it for 3 years
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Mar 6, 2020 19:10
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one of the best things about working at GE Healthcare was that there was a process for everything and a person who knew/owned that process, so the panic mode of literally no one in the company knowing what the gently caress just never happened. everything that could happen has a person (usually teams of persons) who can handle it. that part was really great.
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Mar 6, 2020 19:10
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:... I wish this didn't literally made me think "oh that'd be nice"
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Mar 6, 2020 19:39
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Private Speech posted:I wish this didn't literally made me think "oh that'd be nice" This happened to me once at a 25 year old company. How? Just how?
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Mar 6, 2020 19:56
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:one of the best things about working at GE Healthcare was that there was a process for everything and a person who knew/owned that process, so the panic mode of literally no one in the company knowing what the gently caress just never happened. everything that could happen has a person (usually teams of persons) who can handle it. of course you might not know they exist or how to find them
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Mar 6, 2020 20:24
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SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE posted:This happened to me once at a 25 year old company. How? Just how? startups dont care about labor laws and will do incredibly dumb things if they think it makes their grift look more attractive to investors including hiring engineers they cant afford to pay and buying furniture and equipment that they can't budget for
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Mar 6, 2020 20:41
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SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE posted:This happened to me once at a 25 year old company. How? Just how? there was that one paycheck processor that just hosed off one day because they'd had massive internal fraud
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