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Tigren posted:They also have to go to a lot of meetings, and actually participate in them. If you don't want meetings, stay a lower level engineer. But the higher up you go on the career ladder, the more your problems are people problems and less computer problems. And those mostly get solved in meetings. At some point in my career I actually started appreciating the meetings. I'm too old to write code all day. Let someone else figure out how the gently caress the Spark Python API works.
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Neito posted:Hacker News is like reddit for VCs and "Rise and Grind" types. There's definitely that aspect to HN but not at all it's entirety. There's a plenty of good content and occasional gems that don't seem to appear anywhere else.
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KillHour posted:At some point in my career I actually started appreciating the meetings. I'm too old to write code all day. Let someone else figure out how the gently caress the Spark Python API works. I'm just a creative person and enjoy building things. I enjoy being the one to solve problems and clear blockers. So implementation is a must for me, at least right now. My dream job would probably be being the senior-est senior engineer that knows everything about everything and spending most of my time either tackling the most challenging/interesting projects or helping other people past whatever they're stuck on when they come to me. I might angle for Senior Engineer or Staff Engineer based on everyone's feedback. I'm aware that becoming management-level is almost inevitable if you want to climb the career ladder but I'd like to delay it as long as possible without falling behind.
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Aug 11, 2022 19:44
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You absolutely do not need to go into management
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Mr. Crow posted:You absolutely do not need to go into management This. I work at a place large enough that we have technical IC paths all the way up to the AVP level. They're super competitive, and there's not a huge amount of them, but they do exist. Managing people sucks and if you don't want to be a people manager, don't be a people manager.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I'm just a creative person and enjoy building things. I enjoy being the one to solve problems and clear blockers. So implementation is a must for me, at least right now. My dream job would probably be being the senior-est senior engineer that knows everything about everything and spending most of my time either tackling the most challenging/interesting projects or helping other people past whatever they're stuck on when they come to me. I used to be this person and I am no longer this person. But I agree with everyone else that as long as you are this person, you need to stay out of management. All of the worst, most miserable managers I've ever had have been this person.
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Hi goons, I'm looking for some career advice. I decided to pursue a Computer Science degree in 2018 as a mature student, and I consider myself fairly well-rounded as a new grad:
 I also don't feel like I have an identity as a developer. I'm very interested in system-level/high-performance computing (which is why I learned C++) but those roles typically require significant experience. I'm willing to work and learn but I feel somewhat aimless about what my focus should be. I'm currently spending my time deepening my knowledge of JavaScript so that I can pick up new frameworks and build up my portfolio, but I also feel as if I'm stretching myself in multiple directions. Ultimately I just want to find a job, and it's been tough to gain traction. I've interviewed at Meta (I screwed up a coding question, but there's a hiring freeze anyhow) and I'm currently going through the process at Amazon, but I consider FAANG opportunities to be longshots, and I'm definitely looking to join smaller companies. Any suggestions on what I should be doing other than applying everywhere and keeping my resume sharp?
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Aug 11, 2022 22:17
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Grimes posted:Hi goons, I'm looking for some career advice. If you haven't, you should probably also post this in the caverns of cobol, since thats a more coder oriented sub than shsc
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Aug 11, 2022 22:22
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Yeah, go to the newbie thread but as someone who hires lots of career change later in life people, you'll "catch up" fast. I suggest finding a job to get some of that experience as much for the resume as knowing what direction you want to go in. The first job is the hard one, after that it'll be more about what you want to do.
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Breaking into an industry / getting a first job usually sucks. Your accomplishments seem good. Just keep pounding the proverbial pavement.
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Who we are: Columbia Sportswear. Where we are: Portland Oregon, but both of these jobs are available fully remote in most states in the US. The follow states aren't eligible for remote work: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia I have two positions open. --- Job title: Systems Engineer II (Windows/VMWare/Generalist) Brief Job Description: The primary goal of this position is to maximize reliability, availability, and performance of the business' infrastructure, both on-premises and in various cloud providers. This is a mostly technical and operations (maintenance and break/fix) based role, you will work with various teams on both short- and long-term improvement projects. Compensation: ~110k base +5% bonus and the usual large corporation compensation bonuses (401k match, medical, dental etc) Job listing should be up within a week. Job title: Cloud Network Engineer (Azure/AWS) Brief Job Description: As Columbia’s Infrastructure technologies evolve, we need to ensure we have a technically sound, innovative, and scalable plan to meet future demands. Our Infrastructure team is looking for an experienced Network Engineer working in the Azure and AWS Clouds with secondary experience in datacenter and campus networking. Compensation: ~$130k base +7% bonus and the usual large corporation compensation bonuses (401k match, medical, dental etc) https://www.columbiasportswearcompany.com/job/14613721/infrastructure-cloud-network-engineer-portland-or/
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DigitalMocking posted:Who we are: Columbia Sportswear.
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ilkhan posted:Why not Iowa? No loving idea. I've asked HR about the list and I got some non-committal bullshit answer.
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Aug 19, 2022 05:04
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I don't know if this applies to you but some states require having a business presence for tax purposes, and if you don't already have something like a retail store in that state, it may not be worthwhile to set one up for a single remote employee.
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Aug 19, 2022 05:14
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That would be my guess too. Likely a random HR person just knows that finance/legal gave them that list of states.
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The Fool posted:I don't know if this applies to you but some states require having a business presence for tax purposes, and if you don't already have something like a retail store in that state, it may not be worthwhile to set one up for a single remote employee. I get that, but we have at least one store in every state in the US. IDK man, I'm sure there's some reason for it, just seems odd that a company this big has those restrictions, but it is what it is.
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Aug 19, 2022 11:45
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It's probably cost of living, HR hates the idea that your salary might go further doing the same job in a cheaper state
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Aug 20, 2022 07:48
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Cripes I want that.
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Long shot but figure I'd post here during my job hunt. Lifted the format off a post in the front page. My experience: 13 years in restaurants leading to my current job as department head at a restaurant group. I am responsible for ~89 employees. My coding experience: doing some crappy crud apps for my work, my wife's company, and my MIL'S company. Most of a programming cert at a local CC. Some unity work. What I'm looking for: entry level engineering What I'm NOT looking for: help desk, people management. Where I live: Colorado, prefer remote even if it's a lower wage. Where I'm looking: Colorado, western Washington, Bay Area of CA. When I can I start: nearly immediately. I would need to offboard with my current company and prefer to give ~1mo notice but I can switch my work with them to nights/ weekends pretty easily. Requirements: At least $70k salary Can be reached via: PM, outfieldrecords@gmail.com
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My org is hiring SRE type engineers. linkedIn listing is here: Check out this job at H&R Block: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3249441445 None of the positions are on my team, but I do work with the hiring teams fairly often. There's a lot of nonsense in the description, but if you have sre/devops like experience, are familiar with azure with a bonus of k8s experience, you'd be a good candidate
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My company is looking for a Network & Systems Engineer in the US to help support our growing team and customers there. The position is fully remote. Our company is a niche market leader for MIS systems for the label and folding carton printing business. Details can be found here: https://www.cerm.net/jobs.
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sixth and maimed posted:My company is looking for a Network & Systems Engineer in the US to help support our growing team and customers there. The position is fully remote. Our company is a niche market leader for MIS systems for the label and folding carton printing business. What can you tell me about working for them?
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My experience: 5 years of level 2/3 support, 1 of Technical Account Management What I'm looking for: Any non-entry-level What I'm NOT looking for: Entry level, helpdesk Where I live: Boston/Providence corridor. Where I'm looking: Will take anything remote or reachable via T/RIPTA, remote preferred. When I can I start: Two weeks after offer. Requirements: At least $80k salary, remote, full-time. Can be reached via: PM
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ilkhan posted:Interested, but the pay would be a question mark. Duties seem pretty mixed between triage and admin. Disclaimer: I only joined the company 4 weeks ago and I work for the European team, so for the (small) American team YMMV. CERM is a SME that is growing rapidly; currently demand outweighs our ability to supply. As such, we're constantly hiring and the company is experiencing the typical growing pains that go with growth and the need for oversight/processes/procedures. Personnel turnover isn't high, though, and some colleagues have been here for over +20 years. The position is with the IT team that currently has 5 persons in it. IMO pay is good and they care about personnel. There is little to no micromanagement and everybody is treated like an adult that can (and should) manage their own schedule/work. If you have any more or specific questions, just shoot me a PM and I'll try and get you answers.
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My experience: 4-5 years IT Operations Support, 4 of them as a System Administrator in a Windows Shop. M365, Azure AD, VMWare Horizon, SharePoint, Power Automate What I'm Looking For: Non-Entry Level Engineering or Administration What I'm Not Looking For: Helpdesk/Service Desk Where I Live: Raleigh, NC Area Where I'm Looking: Raleigh Area, East Coast US, Remote anywhere When I Can Start: 1-2 weeks after offer Requirements: Full-time, no contract, benefits, remote or hybrid Can be reached via PM
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The Dreamer posted:My experience: 4-5 years IT Operations Support, 4 of them as a System Administrator in a Windows Shop. M365, Azure AD, VMWare Horizon, SharePoint, Power Automate PM sent
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My experience: 20 years total (one org). Network tech then network administrator with experience in Windows, Cisco, VMWare, Veeam, Meraki, M365, Azure AD etc. Then IT Manager - Operations, lead a team of network techs, managemented org wide projects, built and managed security infrastructure from the ground up, implemented DR plans, did new office builds, responsible for budgets, hiring for dept, etc. Good at speaking and communication with management. Managed vendor relationships. What I'm Looking For: management or pre-sales role. Possible engineering, depending. What I'm Not Looking For: crawling under desks, 4am router replacements, programming jobs Where I'm Looking: Madison WI. On site is fine, remote is best. When Can I Start: Immediately. Will accept a position that may not start until Q1 2023 though. Requirements: Full-time. No contract. Can be reached via PM.
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My experience: 20 years total in various technical and leadership roles, across a number of industries: ecommerce, government contracting, banking, and software, most recently 6 years in several roles across delivery and engineering for a publicly-traded global FinTech SaaS. I have managed to pick up an enormous breadth and depth of technical knowledge along my journey, and have achieved success in roles that had me working directly with senior leadership, both internally and on the client side. I've led teams of engineers through concurrent implementations of a very complex SaaS deployment for large (10B+ asset size) institutions, designed and built systems that saved millions of dollars in engineering time annually, and have had the privilege of sharing some of what I've learned through training courses and presentations put on for both technical and nontechnical audiences. I've worked in a handful of programming languages, gone deep on broader topics like networking, databases, content delivery, and have experience architecting systems that scale to meet the needs of the business. My public cloud experience is all AWS (though I'm not opposed to learning another), and I have significant experience dealing with hybrid architectures. What I'm looking for: Principal Engineer/Architect, would consider DevEx or Solution Architecture roles What I'm NOT looking for: On-call rotation, large travel commitments, web3/crypto nonsense, stack rankings based on lines of code Where I live: Dallas, TX Where I'm looking: Remote, but I don't mind travel to an office or a conference a few times a year (I've been remote and done this since 2015) When I can start: January 2023 Requirements: Full time, remote (relocation / hybrid isn't off the table entirely but would need to be something exceptional) Can be reached via: PM
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My experience: 8 years of doing break/fix and 1/2nd level Windows support across multiple roles. 2 years using Service Now for ticketing, What I'm looking for: 2nd level helpdesk/ entry level admin What I'm NOT looking for: customer-facing positions/on call / w2 contract positions Where I live: Greenville, TX 75401 Where I'm looking: Dallas TX/Remote - Remote preferred When I can I start: now Requirements: At least $50k salary, remote, full-time. Can be reached via: PM Elizabethan Error fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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I haven't looked at those jobs in a while but surely you could make 60k as t2/ Jr sysadmin?
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Happiness Commando posted:I haven't looked at those jobs in a while but surely you could make 60k as t2/ Jr sysadmin?
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Yeah, take way more than 40k
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fair points, being laid off made me somewhat desperate. thanks
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Cup Runneth Over posted:What would you folks name as a title for a job where you do full-stack web development, database management, cloud administration, mobile app development, project management, etc. all in one position? DevOps Engineer, or is that too IT-sided for a job where programming is still most of the workload? Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Architect Also seen it as Founding Engineer, or styled as "Architect, Founding Engineer" On a resume "founding engineer" gets my attention because it telegraphs "i did all the things, and people were still willing to give us more money at the end of the day" which is a pretty strong, ringing endorsement
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Edit Wrong Thread!
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Wrong thread. 
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The Fool posted:My org is hiring SRE type engineers. Still actively hiring, here's the orgs main indeed page: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/H&R-Block/jobs Here's a couple remote sre positions: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/H&R-Block/jobs?q=remote+sre&l=#cmp-skip-header-mobile Here's a bunch of other remote positions from O365 admin to software engineer: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/H&R-Block/jobs?q=remote+infrastructure+&l=#cmp-skip-header-mobile My team works directly with the SRE's and any goon getting one of those positions would be actively making my life easier. I have PM's, so feel free to message with any questions. The Fool fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Fool posted:Still actively hiring, here's the orgs main indeed page: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/H&R-Block/jobs Sr Infrastructure Engineer -Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 Advanced Server. -Routing and other protocols such as: OSPF, BGP, IGRP, Serial, Frame Replay, IP RIP, VLANs, RIP, Ethernet, Access Lists.
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GreenNight posted:Sr Infrastructure Engineer Almost guarantee that someone is being dumb and copy-pasting from old job descriptions. We don't actually have any of that in our environment.
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The Fool posted:Almost guarantee that someone is being dumb and copy-pasting from old job descriptions. Their list of poo poo would make someone hesitate to apply for such a position. It's lengthy.
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