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here op, let me translate those questions to how you were supposed to have understood them:Bloody posted:moron recruiter: hurr, do a fizzbuzz (no change, you just have to do it. what, can't you?)
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The Management posted:I've done this successfully and know others who have. i guess nobody really wanted to retain Boiled Water
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i would rather be waterboarded than whiteboarded
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Ciaphas posted:why do govt jobs do them? i know 'lol govt' but i 'm genuinely curious if there's more than that the polygraph machine is just a distraction. the real test is whether your interviewer is satisfied that you've told him everything that could possibly compromise you. if he thinks you haven't, then he gets to say your poly was inconclusive, and you have to do it again and again until he is satisfied
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Dec 10, 2016 01:59
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which private address space is better for what? what the gently caress does that question even mean
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Dec 14, 2016 04:54
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job searching is not that hard if you're good and white and male and straight and young
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Dec 16, 2016 03:46
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Share Bear posted:no thats the center and the right in america we call the center the left, aren't you paying any attention
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Dec 22, 2016 20:49
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echinopsis posted:and mates.. get on tinder and snapchat.. the ladies will respond well and give your ego a boost. remember most people are average and youre probably above average. we're talking about salary, not physical fitness, right?
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nbsd you don't understand, it can't be a numbers game. i'm a unicorn 10x developer, and companies are hiring me for the particular set of skills that only i possess, and i alone can fix their problems. my career success is due entirely to my own effort, there is no random component involved, i am just that good and they can totally tell from the interview. therefore any failures i experience are legitimate rejections of my deepest self, they cannot simply be brushed off, i have been deemed meritocratically unworthy. why else do you think i don't have a girlfriend, and i believe i can do everyone else's job better than them, and i won't join a union, and and and
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Jan 6, 2017 04:07
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mishaq posted:lol if every job youve ever had wasnt obtained via gross nepotism/cronyism so basically, lol if you're not white, or at least from an upper-middle-class business-owning immigrant family
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Jan 6, 2017 04:16
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i lived in the dc metro area for 10 years. don't do a dc. it is not cool or good.
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:im excited about doing golang stuff ... but maybe it's bad for some reason
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Jan 9, 2017 02:24
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Rex-Goliath posted:nope. i think it was glassdoor or someone like that but they did a survey and found that generally the sweet spot for happiness & compensation & all the rest is generally at the mid-size company level. small enough so that you don't disappear into corporate ennui but big enough that they actually make money and the life of the company won't be in your hands on a daily basis mid-size companies are great, especially if they aren't household names and their industry is just "necessary business poo poo" rather than something inherently exciting
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:
the best thing about programming is that it's distilled problem solving, so it's satisfying at a nerdy technical level even when the subject matter is mundane. if you don't agree then how did you manage to get through school?
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i really just want to work on mediocre business poo poo!
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PCjr sidecar posted:lol at needing 4500-7500 hours of pm work to be a pmp pmpin ain't easy but it's necessary
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jony neuemonic posted:any recommendations for targeting large companies? or is it just hit their careers page and hope? know someone who already works there to get you past HR
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The Management posted:any decent programmer should be able to write a simple function on a whiteboard in a language they know well. yes, it is challenging to write in a whiteboard, and you shouldn't be doing something that takes a ton of code or a bunch of convoluted logic, it should be very straight forward. no.
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i will never ask candidates to write code on a whiteboard. not only because high-pressure whiteboarding is a terrible approximation of real development work, but more importantly because the entire style of quiz-question interviewing is bankrupt and useless
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that was almost fishmech-like, how you addressed the assumed implication of a tiny part of my post, rather than the actual point therein i don't care if your quiz is "fair", i'm saying your entire methodology of interviewing is wrong
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The Management posted:okay, let me address your main point: alright, well i understand where you're coming from. i'm about to do what i just yelled at you for, and focus on a single word of your post. i'm not trying to be an rear end in a top hat, i could address some of the points you brought up because i partly agree and partly disagree... but really what i'm trying to get at is captured in one word that you used: "exercise" i don't make interviewees do exercises of any kind. i talk to them like human beings. i read their resume, which is relevant to the job description or it wouldn't have gotten this far, and i ask them questions about the projects they've worked on in the past. i might present a related issue that we've encountered and see how they would have tackled it. i'm interested in their personality, work style, approach to problem solving, etc. just as you are. i find that this tests communication and presentation skills thoroughly. i can tell if they're bullshitting. can't you?
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:lmfao who the gently caress can save 20k? lmfao if you didnt sell your soul to fannie mae for the rest of time just to get into your 5th pick school for your worthless degree. if you work as a developer and you can't save 20k then your expenses are too high, stop that i know you're gonna say "uhh dude i don't make nearly as much money as you think i do" but that's because your company is loving you, not because the expectation is unreasonable
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ah alright that makes sense. well i'm glad you are in a better position now  and soon your thoughts will be more like "lol who can save 20k? oh yeah, me, right now, gently caress yeah"
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you are supposed to spend your time in that professor's class figuring out how he asks questions and what kinds of answers he's looking for
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Munkeymon posted:SELECT TOP 10 * FROM Employees ORDER BY Compensation DESC Syntax error try again: SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY compensation DESC LIMIT 10
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LinYutang posted:talked with a guy who said he was having trouble recruiting engineers onto his team name and shame
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Symbolic Butt posted:I'm getting supergood at sql because that's what I do at my job all day basically. At least databases won't be one of those topics that I have to pretend to have a clue about anymore. It's pretty great isn't it?
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Symbolic Butt posted:yeah, I'm still getting the hang of interpreting EXPLAIN ANALYZE and that's where the idea of using a subquery came from. here is basically what it does. all queries break down into certain steps, following the sql order of execution: read some sources of data (usually tables), combine them together with joins, group and sort if necessary, then project out the columns you selected. but your query doesn't say exactly how to compute the answer, it's more declarative. at each step the db has many choices. when reading data from a table it could do a seq scan, or an index scan, or maybe a bitmap index scan, or even some type of parallel scan. to join it could use hash tables, merge joins, nested loops. grouping and sorting can be done many ways too, and different choices are appropriate for different scenarios. even across queries with the same structure, different parameter values could change the plan, you can't tell just by looking at the query. to figure out the best execution plan, the planner keeps track of some data statistics for table columns. like it knows % of null, distinct value count, most common values, etc. see the pg_stats view. these stats get populated and updated by the analyze command. there are also some baseline constants that define the relative cost of low level operations, e.g. seq_page_cost is the cost to read a page in a seq scan and defaults to 1. compare with cpu_index_tuple_cost which is 0.005. these are the "units" you see in the explain estimate. so for each node of your query, the planner basically enumerates all possible choices and calculates how much it thinks they will cost according to its estimates, then picks the one with lowest cost. but the choice for one node can affect the choice for other nodes, so with a large query the search space of possible plans is huge and not feasible to explore entirely. to help, the planner has lots of built-in heuristics so it doesn't explore paths that are obviously dead ends. because remember, it has to do this for every single query, before the query can run! (unless you use prepared queries to cache the plan.) it has only a few milliseconds to do all this work. sql query execution engines are a seriously dark art and it's a big part of the reason why oracle is still worth money and (in my experience) handles lovely queries better than postgres does. you can't directly tell postgres how to execute a query, but you can disable certain types of plan node choices if you think there's a problem with them (see enable_seqscan and friends) or adjust the cost settings to more accurately reflect your hardware. but unless you really know what you're doing, the best option is generally to try and rewrite the query, combined with staring at the explain output to see what the planner was unable to figure out how to do efficiently. i've been doing a lot of this for the past year or so, and i find it really enjoyable actually
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here is my secret to project planning as a small team tech lead: never give or accept an estimate any lower than the time it would take for you to just do the entire thing yourself
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sorry i believe you've misposted, this is the computer janitors forum, the only tipchat we like here is complaining about paying them however i am 31 so i appreciate the ego boost
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5-10% is not worth switching jobs for unless you're already unhappy and looking anyway. i'm good at my job and people respect me and let me do basically whatever i want, but i had to work hard to establish that position when i joined, and i'm not looking to restart that process with another employer unless we're talking 25%+ more money
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sorry, we don't need more managers
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if you have credit card debt you are loving up at life hth
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Cocoa Crispies posted:get good at sql i highly recommend this course of action and can personally assure you that it is both Cool and Good
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carry on then posted:why the gently caress is ignorance a point of pride? it's ok, this helps us filter. just smile and nod and quietly move to "do not hire" pile
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it's actually an interview strategy that many companies will even suggest you use. instead of standing there thinking silently about the problem, trying to come up with a perfect solution, just start prototyping a brute force algorithm immediately and get something on the whiteboard so the interviewer knows you can code and doesn't doze off. then you'll have his attention as he points out the complexity and you get to demonstrate that you know how to optimize too
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here's the secret about everyone who succeeds in tech without a degree: they're all white 
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hifi posted:i think they're all sociopath hucksters that's what i said
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Symbolic Butt posted:one of them is not white is he asian but raised in america and with no noticeable accent?
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don't quote stymie
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cis autodrag posted:alright, im workshopping my counteroffer now. the initial offer won't let me break even given housing costs out there and im working out a way to phrase that that isn't whiny. ive been reading articles all day but if there's any good ones people like pls link them. If you're moving to the Bay Area then I suggest you lower your housing quality expectations. No matter how much money you get, you're never gonna be living in the type of place that you feel you should be at that income level. It's a common mistake people make coming out here: their compensation is huge for any other part of the country, but lots of people here make more and there's not enough housing to go around so anything you'd consider desirable is already rented for more than you can afford. Get used to the idea of lovely apartments and look forward instead to filling them with nice things, because that's the standard of living here unless you have a million dollars in your investment accounts
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