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ahmeni posted:

lol at moving from a socialist paradise to a brutal capitalist hellhole
if kiwis want money they come to australia, a milder capitalist hellhole

NZ owns

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 04:39

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 10:16

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If anything y'all should be moving to NZ, the skilled migrant visa is super easy

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 04:39

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Lmao at anyone thinking of anywhere in Texas over NZ

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 04:40

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LeftistMuslimObama posted:

based on what i know (and was able to google) new zealand is equally terrible to its minorities and natives, and its lgbt rights are about on par with the US's (just added gay marraige this decade, civil unions before that, has left trans rights undefined and in legal limbo with differing opinions in various courts).

it seems like the primary advantage of new zealand is actually that it treats its lower-class white people better than the us and that's not a consideration if you are making the big bux.

new zealand had a maori prime minister in the 20's

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 06:43

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Doing 10x correctly is mainly about being strategic with what you're spending time on. The HN crowd confuses lines of code with productivity/impact

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 18:52

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You could always just destroy them from the inside

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 18:24

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reminder for our readers: never disclose current salary

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 06:40

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If it's to the US they'd likely be put somewhere else while the visa is pending. E.g. the Dublin office or London office (for now lol) for EU residents. This limbo period can easily take a year depending on the type of application they can get with their credentials.

This is much less of a problem for countries with functioning governments tho

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 18:40

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Valeyard posted:

10℅

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 21:00

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lancemantis posted:

subjunctive is a VC now (in canada I think) that spends a lot of time countering peoples (honestly misinformed) opinions on how some VCs do business in the D&D tech thread

ive reached a strange point in looking over resumes now where I can pick up on the possibility of someone being mormon, which seems like a really weird pattern to notice

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

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 21:01

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Valeyard posted:

I mean that's pretty common here, for a first time buyer

Different story if you are selling somewhere first and moving

no i mean

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# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 09:48

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dont sign

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 03:20

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http://www.wellingtonnz.com/work/looksee-registration/

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 08:28

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ShadowHawk posted:

I've got to prepare a detailed self evaluation for a promotion opportunity and it is way more frustrating than any other work I actually do

Maybe I should practice my vanity somewhere.

Promo easy mode is to just leave and come back in a few months

But you'd likely not want to go back after seeing how good it is elsewhere

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 18:45

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ADINSX posted:

This is what keeps me from even bothering to apply, despite my fiance working there and some of our friends. I'd only wanna work on very specific projects on their cloud or maps team, but even within those groups there are plenty of really boring projects.

It doesn't strike me as a place where someone can come in start making interesting and creative decisions. Maybe that's for the best, but its something I really enjoy about smaller companies, once you've proven yourself you can really have a say in the direction of the company's technology even if you only have maybe 2-5 years of experience.

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

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 05:46

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there's enough dead code in there to use that as a 'what does this function return for x input' interview question

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 22:33

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Bloody posted:

always put 1337 or 8008135 in those forms no matter what

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 06:39

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Bloody posted:

dumptrucks of money

take-home pay will double or triple once vesting starts

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 08:04

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id rate them better than google at this point tbh

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 23:55

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PierreTheMime posted:

im keen to leave the south

Oh you hadn't mentioned that part. Take the job.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 04:19

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I lived in Boston for 7 years prior to moving to the bay area, and have now lived in the bay area for 7 years as well

Between the two I strongly prefer bay area but you could do worse

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redleader posted:

unreadable garbage

Don't sign

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 16:06

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Sapozhnik posted:

everybody else here free as a bird and not shackled to their current job by green card processing and i'm over here waking up every morning to the sweet dulcet sounds of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgwLKRPQF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYPokP6Wl_c

# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 07:09

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ShadowHawk posted:

You could always emigrate to the promised land

hes already there

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 04:52

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new zealand owns

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 04:54

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Illusive gently caress Man posted:

this was total comp for a senior quantitative trading thing so I assumed it was realistic. I don't know poo poo about financial dev work except that it can pay a lot. but yeah, they probably don't email random nobodies like me to hire.

it wasnt from "Herman Search" was it?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3809017#post469162746

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 03:47

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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:

once when I worked at retardo lockheed martin a manager (not mine) emailed my manager to 'tattle' that I was wearing jeans on a non-Friday. My manager didn't really care, but I swear to god this is the email that was sent:

From: some idiot
To: My manager
Subject: VYO69 in Jeans?
Body: Is today casual day?

They weren't real surprised when I left, despite getting an A+ perf review

i parked a nissan versa next to someones vw eos. they'd regularly parked it away from the rest of the cars in the office parking lot and i thought it was funny to have my shitbox parked next to the (somewhat) nicer cars. apparently the vw eos owner was offended and figured out who my manager was, then whined at them about my transgression

to their credit my manager was all 'lol you wont believe what this piece of poo poo just said to me'

# ¿ Apr 1, 2017 07:03

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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

last place I worked didn't do drug testing in part because they knew if they did they'd be letting go half their workforce

i had once worked at a place that got acquired after i left

- the acquirer had a drug testing policy
- the acquiree was based in berkeley, ca
- a majority of the acquiree's employees left within a month

# ¿ Apr 1, 2017 07:09

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echinopsis posted:

someone actually complained about what car was being parked next to theirs?

they didnt just complain, they figured out whose car it was, and then who their manager was

THEN they complained

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Bloody posted:

lol at a vw eos being considered nice

yeah this is possibly the most hosed up part

# ¿ Apr 1, 2017 07:29

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qirex posted:

so yeah I have a new jorb, starting in 2 weeks

I remember a while back there was this guy my boss wanted to hire and the dude decided that a parking space was his #1 dealbreaker gotta have it thing but the company had a policy to not pay for parking so it took like 3 extra weeks to get the guy on board, that should have been an obvious red flag though because he ended up being a useless shitlord who got fired 6 months later and not even "scott went on to pursue other opportunities" it was like yeah we fired him

hope the offer hadnt been sent today XD

# ¿ Apr 1, 2017 20:08

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Many things about cities are very counter intuitive. For example it seems like making bigger roads, or flyovers, or elevated highways will solve traffic jams. And clearly that has never been the case. Because what creates traffic is not the number of cars, but the number of trips and the length of trips. They'll need more road infrastructure and the traffic will become even worse. The only way to solve traffic jams is to restrict car use, and the most obvious way of restricting car use is restricting parking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPf4s2oFnp0

# ¿ Apr 2, 2017 18:08

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echinopsis posted:

i have 4 car garaging in my house

yeah but your congestion is so low that its unusual for a bridge to be two-direction

# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 03:56

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Tatsujin posted:

I think only CA has mandated sick leave, my company has an office in San Francisco so they have to include all the info for California time off stuff separately

theyre just informing u that ur state sux

# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 15:50

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leper khan posted:

I got 4% and was told it was considered a large raise.

if your country was suffering 6% deflation at the time then they may have been right

# ¿ Apr 7, 2017 06:10

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ShadowHawk posted:

Our bizarre promotion process has the following features

1) I apply for promotion with a self eval and peer feedback
2) A committee decides on it
3) They give that decision to my manager, who can choose whether or not to appeal it
4) Two weeks pass while my manager is not allowed to tell me what the current status is
5) Once possible appeals are done then I hear the final news

This basically forces us into this awkward situation where I have to communicate that, should I happen to need an appeal, here are some things that I think happen to support my case that weren't in my initial self assessment, but maybe I don't need an appeal...

just work somewhere else for a year then come back

or just work somewhere else

# ¿ Apr 11, 2017 08:25

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Just have your parents pay the rent duh

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Cocoa Crispies posted:

past-tense lol, left over a year ago, and they basically shut down completely a few weeks back

yeah basho is imploding atm, my team has a couple recent hires from there

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Diva Cupcake posted:

it's not as terrible as expected but i'm still noping out of that inquiry. even a 50% increase on deece 6 doesn't justify moving cross-country to live amongst the strip malls.

South bay is the worst part of the bay area

Unless youre including Stockton i guess

# ¿ Apr 27, 2017 17:30

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Mahatma Goonsay posted:

yeah it was comically bad. I wrote a bunch of if statements testing equally with = instead ==.

Just tell them you were using shell script for that problem

# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 22:16

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