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Ither posted:Last week, I received a full time offer for about $105k/year. This is less than what I'm making now, but I thought the company was a good fit, so I accepted. A good recommendation I’ve heard is at least 1.5x as a contractor. I don’t think it‘s so cut and dry here that one necessarily more. Do you think the salaried place is a better fit? There’s pros and cons to each, one has a bigger number… or is it? What about medical insurance? Vision? Dental? No PTO? What’s pto worth to you? 401k match? Other Pretax benefits?
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Welp I just got my new machine for my new job, and it appears to be a (used?) MacBook pro from 2019. New role is a senior software position, I’m a little confused about it. The hiring manager said they just got M1s, I was looking forward to trying one out. Obviously there’s nothing inherently wrong with an 2019, but I even my personal machine is a 2020 (I wanted to grab the last intel mbp). I thought maybe their IT wanted to stick to intel but it’s not the 2020 so that’s not it. It seems weird to me to recycle a computer like this, so I’m holding hope it wasn’t. I can’t check the battery cycle count until Monday. Anybody ever received an old unit for an engineering role? This is a first for me.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:17
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redleader posted:guessing y'all are a bunch of one-chrome-window-only weirdos then This entire conversation from the tabchat complaints and the prior conversation about notifications are really putting forward and center that a surprising number of engineers are incompetent if not just stupid. These are really simple problems which were solved by design, the same type of design people in this very thread are supposed to be doing. It’s very ironic and disturbing at the same time. Notifications? How do they work? Are they just a series of tubes?
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Apr 5, 2022 15:43
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Protocol7 posted:But that's maybe 10-15 minutes worth of time, and I certainly don't want to fill any extra time with rote fizzbuzz questions. But also at that point I feel like I've kind of sussed out the candidate to the best of my ability. Just feels short for an interview, can't help but feel like I'm missing something? Have you tried shifting to have a normal conversation with them for the rest of the interview once your agenda is done? If I can’t have a normal conversation with someone, I am not interested in working with them. That includes both sides - interviewers or interviewees. That’s just my opinion and I’m sure others disagree. $0.02
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May 6, 2022 16:04
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Plorkyeran posted:Slack video calls are garbage that don't work. Weird. I use them every day. They work just fine. Have had zero issues. We do our standup, retro, planning, whatever, it's almost all through slack video calls. Smaller meetings are in huddles which also work fine. Pairing is done through Tuple, though. Which is awesome.
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May 20, 2022 00:50
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Daviclond posted:I think these beliefs are pretty extreme and are holding you back. Nobody cares what a bunch of goony devs look like, and chatting with teammates should not seem like "a nightmare" that will deprive you of all productivity. "Zoom Fatigue" is real. We have a policy of not requiring videos to be on unless you want to have it on. Video calling is not a natural act and its worse than phone calls, which are an awful way to communicate. I appreciate that it's what we have, but to claim not wanting to use them is extremism is.... well... crazy.
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May 21, 2022 21:23
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Mega Comrade posted:I started being camera on a few months back and it's lead to management thinking I should take on more team lead roles. Is there a promotion and pay raise involved? Lol
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May 23, 2022 15:23
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AskYourself posted:Y is a vowel ? Yes. I learned this for vowels in 1st grade: “A e i o u and sometimes y”
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Jul 10, 2022 17:32
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Scammers are already jumping on the Twitter bandwagon to make some money https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/yj6qsl/a_scam_targeting_bluechecks_on_twitter/Trapick posted:There was a consensus that we spend too much time in meetings, so a new decree came down: no more meetings! On Wednesday afternoons. All other times fine. 10% set aside for actual independent work is plenty 1/5 is 20%? Wondering if I missed some kinda joke 
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Nov 1, 2022 16:10
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I survived 9 layoffs in my first company. One layoff in my second, and another layoff in my third. I’m at 12 years. Here’s to hoping I can keep it up. Edit: my bad this wasn’t fair. I thought I was in another thread. My first company was an aerospace company and those have layoffs every year. Not a fair comparison to tech
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2 years is the point where it starts to make sense to look elsewhere. It’s very sad because this is the point where you’re reaching peak effectivity in your role, and actually are really valuable, but for whatever reason our modern society has decided the opposite. Take your 3% raise or leave for 20%. This is what capitalism has become, like the above stated. If you don’t play the game right, you lose. Edit: leaving sounds like a great decision 
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