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idk it all just kinda irks me because i assume any decent dev can pick up basically any new thing in a few weeks or months which is pretty much always feasible here at least so id rather just interview people on like "are you good at googling stuff" and "are you good at learning new problem domains or concepts or technologies" than "do you already know specific technology x" even if specific technology x is a relatively common data structure. like i didnt know poo poo about lock-free thread-safe collections before my current project and now they're a central underpinning to it so like i'd rather find people that can figure out that part than people who just already know the thing. i also realize that this approach probably doesnt apply everywhere and i also have no idea how you'd interview for it in the first place
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good news fam I got a job offer in seattle doing  stuff and I'm prob gonna take it
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triple sulk posted:what is it is building spaceships for jeffy b
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& thanks fam
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a deece 6.1 figgies
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FamDav posted:ur welcome lol
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interviewing is so universally poo poo. just keep going and bombing and then you'll randomly be offered a job. gently caress it
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mishaq posted:lol if every job youve ever had wasnt obtained via gross nepotism/cronyism lol indeed
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my new job was attained entirely through submitting an application into the void of a webpage. I wrote a kinda decent cover letter to go with it (because they were required) but
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still wish I was moving to dc even if only to watch the apocalypse from the inside
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boston has buttloads of biotech, mostly pharma. there's your usual smattering of startup software crap too. we've got a google office, a facebook, a microsoft, a couple different amazons, a twitter, a fitbit. we got our own not-uber. we got draftkings
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so I may have accidentally emailed my boss/boss's boss/HR my signed offer letter instead of my signed notice of termination today
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Jan 10, 2017 05:39
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it was a genuine accident but also genuinely owned notice.pdf != signed.pdf
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Beast of Bourbon posted:was the new offer a lot better? or was this just embarassing like 30% better
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qirex posted:did you have your new offer letter on your work computer? ya because i had to print it, sign it, and scan it lmao
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Rex-Goliath posted:so how did they react? tell us the story man the hr person just emailed me and said "you sent me the wrong thing!"
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mishaq posted:if the hr person is cool and didn't tell anyone else about your epic fuckup I also sent it two layers of management above me so lol. those two didn't even respond
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actually you'll find my balls look very normal
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:actually i cant seem to find them at all 
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field applications engineer, aka customer support
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pmp is in many places a red flag that that person should not be allowed to pm
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The Management posted:then they should be doing everything they can to keep you happy and not even needing to search for a new job. why aren't they doing that? haveu heard of dysfunctional management
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more like cum master
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lol if you don't maintain a spreadsheet of colleagues that you would go poaching given the opportunity
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the most convincing argument I made to myself in favor of changing jobs was that even though the new salary wasn't as high as I wanted it to be it still represented a larger increase in salary from my current position than all previous raises combined before accounting for new job's bonuses or lower cost of living or anything
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Maximo Roboto posted:Anyone here tried Hired? It's an okay platform, but especially fun to lol @ the various seed stage places who are hard up looking for people and approach you even if you're under-qualified for the senior elite ninja 10x positions they advertise for. I guess it's like browsing Angelist startups except they come to you. ya the platform as a whole declined me lmao
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massachusetts passed a law (taking effect next year, i think?) banning employers from asking candidates their current salary (and banning employers from preventing employees from discussing compensation) and i would love to hear about people slamming that dick down on the table during a conversation with some hr idiots
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at my last job it was a few hours of orientation then you were expected to work; at new job it sounds like a few days of orientation at least. i've interviewed places that were more like "were gonna bootcamp you internally for minimum six months before you touch anything of value" which was kinda cool tbh (then they offered me a deece 5 figgies for a fintech job)
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a fintech startup in the boston area that pays like crap
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our last fresh hires were productive inside of a few weeks but, more than six months later, will freely admit that they don't understand the whole system
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big scary monsters posted:pretty weird for me to see all this talk about being productive in x weeks or months. in academia you can quite easily have an entire successful career without ever really getting up to speed or doing anything useful as near as i can tell this holds true for industry as well, i think we're talking about mean-time or median-time or maybe best-case time
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grok me daddy
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TerminalRaptor posted:Just had a candidate in today that we're going to have to pass on. cool, you should hire them anyways
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Jan 26, 2017 03:41
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there are a wide variety of situations for which whiteboards and doing stuff on whiteboards is useful. coding is not one of them.
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like if you're that hard on for some whiteboarding action take the biggest project on their resume and ask them to block diagram it and explain it to you, as this is a thing that whiteboards are suitable for
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I didn't even bother telling or talking to the one guy in former management that would've thrown a fit about me leaving lmao. I wonder if he even knows yet I don't care gently caress that guy unrelatedly apparently one of my former project managers just quit today too lmao
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vodkat posted:Just got invited to my first mostly programming job interview next week :yay: http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
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lol if your interview to offer turnaround time is only four weeks, just lol
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lol I started my new job and now I have no time to post
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