BONGHITZ posted:

I want money, but i dont want to work. any thoughts?

Dr. Honked posted:

links pls what the gently caress even is a 10x dev

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

i am so loving nervous about this interview today it's stupid

spankmeister posted:

So just like LA, but without the traffic

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

stumbled upon this sketch again and thought of this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo

Progressive JPEG posted:

if they mention being an eagle scout on their resume, bingo

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

this place is insane. the president of the company signs off on literally everything that affects budget. he had to personally sign off on all my tuition reimbursements too. there's 10,000 people here but they still act like it's a 100 person company.

Bloody posted:

lol if your interview to offer turnaround time is only four weeks, just lol

Rex-Goliath posted:

how the hell isnt your company atrophying away??

The Management posted:

I could have done that test question in half the time allotted and gotten it perfect if there was no clock running. ugh, so annoyed and now I look like an idiot

Uncle Enzo posted:

well yeah, my brother is bad at tests, that's what i loving said. my point is that tests- particularly when designed by smug know-it-alls that think they're infallible- don't reflect much of anything besides the ability to take tests.

i discussed this same issue with our math prof. his view was that tests can be: 1. a test to see how well you've learned and can apply the things you've been taught or 2. a thing that assesses your ability to improvise on the spot on what you've learned, meaning you're not tested on what you've been taught, but on stuff that's like it

he expressed disdain for the first view, saying that if all he did was test someone's recollection of what they'd been taught, that was useless. he much preferred the second, where for example a test question had you describe the area under a 4-d curve, using equations given in a system of notation unlike any that we'd seen. I pointed out that it was unfair to introduce novel notation on the test, seeing as he'd never actually covered it. he said what you did, that if all he tested was if you'd learned what he'd taught, what was the point of that?

all I'm getting at is that some people just don't test well, despite having as much knowledge and talent as anyone. my bro is great at figuring out what people want based on short conversations- besides, most people aren't sure of what they want anyways. it's hard to write questions that clearly indicate what the writer wants without giving the answer. it doesn't help when someone tries to make it into a dick-waving contest to boot.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

long recruiting pipelines are suicide. hiring generically-qualified people for unknown end positions just means high turnover.

and google is the proof in that fuckin pudding. last numbers i saw put average tenure around 1 year

Sapozhnik posted:

after being responsible for everything and designing everything and having a very stressful time of it in general being a small cog in a large machine is starting to sound real good lately

especially since i'm such a terrible programmer and keep building poo poo

poty posted:

im jealous that everybody is having google interviews except me. i half-assedly applied a couple of times (resume only, no letter) and i havent heard back. im probably worse at my job than all of you guys but they cant possibly tell from my resume which is 4 years at a fortune 500 doing cool stuff + masters in ee from a euro university which is clearly good enough seeing how many classmates got jobs there

Progressive JPEG posted:

they've long suffered from having way more people than work to be done, so there's tons of teams whose sole purpose is to keep rewriting the same miniscule internal service over and over for eternity, along with the requisite horse trading to retain said projects so that the teams still have some semblance of a reason to exist

i made sure to leave before the stagnation set in too much

JawnV6 posted:

amazon folks currently pulling down $300k+

qirex posted:

there's spaces in between those but a director who's a 1 telling all his 2s and 3s to work all weekend is stupid [but it works more than it should]

Dislike button posted:

i have a family friend who was in this situation, except the company was eventually sold then went public and he quit and built a $4 million dollar lake house

power botton posted:

Rex-Goliath posted:

??

hobbesmaster posted:

wouldn't cbp asking for someone to balance a bst require them to know what a bst is in the first place?

Bloody posted:

i dont remember how bubblesort even works

raminasi posted:

grey thread consensus is that all questions about past work are useless because candidates can just lie

cis autodrag posted:

is there like some intended super clever solution to string reversal or do they seriously just want to know if you can iterate over something backwards? i see people mention this as an interview question way too often and my irl answer would be like "what platform? how is the string represented internally and what APIs are available to examine it?" and so on. or does the question just also assume that you automatically go to c strings?