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interviews are dumb and bad but you gotta do them sometime. be a cool dude with the recruiter because he or she doesn't know computers and can't relate to autists. then when you're talking with actual engineers try to talk through your thinking process and state your assumptions. be confident and if you don't know something ask questions that will lead to figuring out the right direction.
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I'm going to be doing this after the holidays and am extremely not looking forward to it, but I hope I can convince someone to dump a pile of money on me without too many theatrics
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Dec 6, 2016 03:22
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I once did a practice interview at a company I had no intention to work for. I walked out of there like "I aced it but gently caress these chumps". they didn't make an offer.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:54
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hey op, post the baddest or bad assed interview questions you're getting.
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Dec 6, 2016 04:33
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Jonny 290 posted:my new job owns i recommend spending a bit over the alloted time on takehome projects but putting extra polish on it to make it worth it same except the exact opposite. if someone gives you a takehome project tell them that your time has value and they can shove it up their rear end.
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Dec 6, 2016 17:16
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BONGHITZ posted:Trump is going to murder unions lmao you must be confused, this is a subforum for computer touchers.
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Dec 6, 2016 19:44
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Bloody posted:we widely acknowledge internally that our fastest promotion track is to leave and come back in a year usually you can get a good bump simply by getting another offer and having your employer match it. assuming you want to stay, that is.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:31
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Ciaphas posted:I sort of meant the overall practice of jumping jobs for a paybump, rather than organizational outlook on said the reason they do it is simple: it takes effort to switch jobs and no effort to stay where you are. many people are unwilling or unable to put in that effort and will live with small raises. if you gave decent raises then you would have to pay everyone more, even the ones that aren't willing to jump.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:53
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Jonny 290 posted:If i have to threaten to quit to get that raise out of you, you're just going to find a way to get rid of me anyways and its and admission that you were paying me less than you thought i was worth. Companies expect this weird samurai loyalty ityool 2016 (like the old days) despite not having labor organization or pensions (like the old days) you're making it too dramatic. this isn't a breakup. you tell your boss that you have a better offer. if he wants to retain you, he will work to get you the terms you need to stay. it's not his money, he doesn't give a poo poo if the company cuts you a bigger check every pay period. in fact, most bosses would be happy to pay their employees more if they found a justification for it that goes around HR's compensation restrictions. this is that kind of excuse. there are two caveats. one is that you have to be fairly sure they want to retain you. and two, you can't bluff. if they fold you have to take the other offer or you will be their bitch from then on.
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Dec 6, 2016 23:02
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Boiled Water posted:I've seen this story play out over and over. you will never see a raise with the current company. ever. I've done this successfully and know others who have.
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Dec 6, 2016 23:20
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Bloody posted:tfw they offer u low six figges not even six and a half?
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Dec 7, 2016 21:24
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lmao this dude thinks that you can hire people based on objective standardized parameters. who do you want to hire, the guy that did best on the math test or the guy that seemed to be a human being you could work with?
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Dec 7, 2016 22:56
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Bloody posted:the only downside is the people spamming u on LinkedIn are absolute imbeciles this morning's LinkedIn idiocy idiot recruiter posted:I wanted to reach out to see if you might be interested in chatting? me 😎 posted:I think you forgot to mention which company you're representing. Let me know.. idiot recruiter posted:Thanks for reaching out. note that he said "we" and "our" in his first email, but now he wants to represent me because he's a third party scumbag
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Dec 8, 2016 16:54
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I like coding on a whiteboard if it's a real coding question. the trick is to keep the question extremely simple so it doesn't get bogged down in the details of the code and focuses on the important aspects.
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Dec 8, 2016 23:44
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most important thing is to be a rock star and crush it. if the interviewer is not a bro it might be hard but you can pwn him with your ninja skillz
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Dec 9, 2016 02:04
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:i have never in my adult life worked somewhere that drug tests. have some dignity. I don't do any drugs but I wouldn't work at a place that drug tests. it shows a fundamental disrespect for employees which is sure to manifest in other ways later. if someone wants to get high in their personal time it's none of the company's business.
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Dec 9, 2016 16:11
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amazon's stupid hiring practice is actually a filter. if you aren't willing to put up with that, you aren't willing to put up with their lovely culture and treatment of employees, so you shouldn't work there anyway. consider it their way of doing you a favor and warning you how terrible they are.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:36
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I've had phone interviews where I could literally hear the guy typing my questions into google and have him read me some answer from a website. upon deeper interrogation these things always fall apart because if they don't know the answer, finding it on the internet doesn't actually give them any insight into the details of the issue. any competent interviewer should be able to sniff this out easily.
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Dec 9, 2016 22:43
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CS teaches you algorithms and complexity, which are things you will need to understand when you're doing advanced software development. it does not teach you how to code or develop software. most graduates are bad at coding and will likely never use the knowledge they learned in school because who cares if the performance of your business java middleware garbage is O(n^3)?
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Dec 11, 2016 00:18
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take home projects should clearly have no practical application. I'm not doing free work for you. also you better have a pretty loving compelling position for me to even consider doing a take home project. if your recruiter hit me up and is trying to convince me to give your company a shot, there's no way I'm doing that.
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Dec 11, 2016 17:25
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:yeah. a little viagra before your interview will fix that, and also show them that you're really excited to be there.
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Dec 15, 2016 17:36
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Bloody posted:c interview s: got an onsite later today, looking forward to language trivia time and toy problem whiteboard time kick their fuckin' rear end, op. you got dis
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Dec 15, 2016 18:06
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Jonny 290 posted:google hangouts exists, dude I was just told that a company does initial interviews over hangouts. how does that work? I don't use hangouts
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Dec 15, 2016 22:08
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Bloody posted:well gonna add that one to the growing list of jobs I won't get what happened?
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Dec 16, 2016 00:03
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triple sulk posted:just get paid to work on open source all day lamo at dealing with that community for a living
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Dec 16, 2016 17:54
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Elysiume posted:this thread makes me want to get back into doing interview loops to get more familiar with being on that side of it opposite because I'm a mean interviewer and I hope I don't get someone like me when I'm being interviewed
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Dec 19, 2016 17:52
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poty posted:i had an interview last week for a government agency job. because its for the public sector theres documentation with the names of the 10 people in the committee that will pick the people to get the job. this is the last week of interviews theyll do and the decision will be taken in january. anytime anyone has ever written me a follow up email (back when we used to give out business cards to interviewees), it was weird and I thought less of that person. yes, I know you can look up and figure out the answer to something I asked you in an interview. I'm not sure what telling me that after the fact is supposed to prove. it's not like if I was on the fence it changes my mind. you just become the guy that wrote me that awkward email.
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Dec 19, 2016 18:14
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:i got an email from an apple recruiter like 3 weeks ago and gmail decided it was a social media email and didnt give me a notification. loving thanks google. hopefully he's still willing to talk to me. just say you were on vacation
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Dec 21, 2016 04:03
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Jonny 290 posted:Keep talkin poo poo, see if you keep talkin poo poo in the Trump-launched million-degree initial nuclear strike, and we'll hang out livin the good life till the retaliatory Russian strike trump isn't going to launch anything, he's just going to let Russia roll into Europe. instead of paternity leave they will be holed up in a forest trying to attack Russian convoys for food and ammo.
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Smythe posted:I live in Los Angeles for my whole life and I never done seen this nobody wears a suit in California
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Dec 26, 2016 19:08
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dick traceroute posted:So... Hypothetically I have been doing (relatively technical) qa at this company for ~2 years. basically the minute you have a title change you should delete QA from your resume and never ever mention it. say you've been a dev the whole time. you stick around until you are a good enough dev to get hired elsewhere. that means having enough experience to talk about projects you've worked on.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:i hadn't heard back from this recruiter over the last 2 weeks (probably holiday outage) so i sent him another email just to say "hey, can't wait to talk about this and here's an updated resume." that doesn't come off desperate, does it? kind of, yeah.
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Dr. Honked posted:i would like to contribute to this thread but i can't without sounding smug as gently caress this guy probably finds his job fulfilling, the smug bastard
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Jan 4, 2017 06:12
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did some practice interview questions today. not because I need it, just to get my confidence up that I can do this. it's been a long time since I interviewed
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Jan 4, 2017 06:27
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Bloody posted:good news fam I got a job offer in seattle doing get paid, bloody. increment those figgies.
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Jan 4, 2017 06:54
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stuff and I'm prob gonna take it
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compuserved posted:just finished a 5.5-hour interview gauntlet. despite struggling with algorithm questions (ugh) i still feel like i did okay, so in actuality i probably hosed up big time. we'll see it's okay to struggle if you show your thinking and what your approach would be toward reaching a solution, even if you don't make it all the way. recognizing the problems and describing what doesn't work and why is also important. not every problem needs to be solved in the span of an interview.
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chmods please posted:so i have an hr phone screener tomorrow. what's a good answer to the inevitable question of "why do you want this position?" other than "i want to do something more interesting than what i'm doing now, for more money" which i'm p sure will shitlist me because it sounds like i'll jump as soon as something even cooler than this company comes my way nobody cares about what your answer is here as long as you don't say anything negative. you are "looking for a new challenge" or "eager to learn new things and explore how other industries do this and that" etc. don't mention money and don't say you hate your job, you were passed over for a raise, your boss was a dick, etc. Xarn posted:Is anyone ever under impressions that this is not the case? there are a surprising number of idiots who will answer this with "oh, I didn't get along with my coworkers" or "my boss screwed me and that place was a mess". this is an easy filter question to get rid of people who are stupid enough to say this.
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D.C. is two different cities: rich white people and students city, and poor black people city. just stay in the right one and you won't get murdered.
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Bloody posted:the hr person just emailed me and said "you sent me the wrong thing!" lmao
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