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Plank Walker posted:you can always do what one of my excoworkers did and lobby hard for projects in areas you want to learn, half-complete them, and leave the company for the job you want, forcing everyone else to pick up your slack Tatsujin posted:my last job was sorta like this but it was an old supervisor hitting me up and going 'hey, do you want this job where you work 9-5 M-F, real benefits, and never get called outside of work?' haha later suckers if any of the halfassed projects I started on were still there when you were im sorry but they should have been good and dead by then
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if some at my office ever again asks me to sign up for this I'm gonna cut someone gently caress running forever, running sucks. why isn't there a J.P. Morgan bike a century fatass challenge
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lol at benching cardio every day *flicks clif bar wrapper at u on mile 70 of a daily ride*
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A BLOG INTO THE SLOT. IT’S 37 SIGNALS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, JASON FRIED. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. ahem Jason's blog is called Signal v. Noise and the company is now known as Basecamp
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Maximo Roboto posted:are there any u.s. cities with a lot of tech jobs besides SF/NY/LA/Seattle/ATX Chicago has a healthy startup scene and a large fintech/healthtech base if that's your thing
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ugh I hate interviewing other people so much and resumes even more so we're hiring for my manager. I think the only person directly asked on my team if they want to be the manager was me and I said "lol no." these resumes are SO BAD. one talks about how they rolled their own encryption and is full of the worst grammar mistakes and uses the word "liased". this one I'm looking at now has a huge half-page block of Skills that I just spent the last 10 minutes highlighting all the repeated things in. and they're both just loving  and over 2 pages long.the delete key is cool and good. please use it on your resume. the less dumb poo poo you put on there the less time I'm going to angrily circle the incorrectly used apostrophe and grill you on why you rolled your own crypto back in 2002.
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spankmeister posted:i would be your manager minivan, my resume is free of spelling and grammatical errors, and does not repeat anything. if you're in/willing to move to chicago and know how to ops devs and reliable sites send me your drat resume and save me from reading another one of these
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oh god this one lists "Waterfall" under Skills: Processes. I just highlighted it and wrote "why. why why why." next to it.
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Management" post="468534370"] I'm trying something new with my resumé. instead of a list of accomplishments, each job details section reads like a paragraph. it's actually longer but easier to read and hopefully not terribly boring. [/quote] is it more than a page? yes: try again no: ok thanks
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I've only had a post-interview test once and it was for a company where I had an outright abusive interview and I wasn't going to take the job if offered. I didn't get an offer which was kind of sad because I would have torn into the recruiter about how bad their interviews are "why did you work for company x, then y and z?" "I enjoyed y and z, they were okay places with great people" "I'm not here to stroke your ego, those places are terrible. why have you made so many terrible life decisions?" I'm pretty sure I called this guy an rear end in a top hat to his face during this we have programming tests too but they're sent beforehand and you have days to complete them at your own pace.
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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 god I hate self evaluation time me, filling out the form: "I do the thing ok I guess" my boss, filling out the form: "minivanmegafun exemplifies what needs to be done for the thing and is a great influence on how to do the thing to people around him and blah blah blah"
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Iverron posted:I did some work for these guys once. Wasn't a fan. i'm not a doctor or nurse and i've never worked anywhere near medtech so getting this was very much a  especially since it doesn't have an obvious "hey come work for us" and just a "uh we have a job fair this day" and was an entirely cold contact. i've never heard of this place before today.
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dragon enthusiast posted:whats the latest youve ever gotten contacted about a resume drop on monster or wherever something like five years careerbuilder doesn't use double-opt-in nor it is aware that periods are not significant in gmail addresses so some mail clerk out in DC registered with my email address when I logged in to yell at them about it it apparently bumped my resume back to "active" and I immediately got a dozen calls
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Munkeymon posted:this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA Munkeymon posted:this is the sort of recruiter spam that made me aware of King of Prussia, PA is there some tech presence there because this, too, is how I learned of King of Prussia
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PokeJoe posted:i get cold calls every day and nothing i can do stops them. for the love of god put a Google voice number on your resume yep. google voice is great for recruiter jail (and hilarious transcriptions)
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lancemantis posted:tbh I think I would want a Real Engineers office to be a serious environment i loved my company's old office. it was the boring cookie cutter turnkey "congrats on your lease here's an office" office with big cubes, tons of sound deadening, and acres of beige that we tried to spice up with a little paint. it was great and dead loving silent. we put sales off in their own corner with a big corridor of conference rooms in the middle so we couldn't hear them. new office is "lol, we're a startup!" and is loud as hell and I hate it. i really love what I do but I'm seriously considering interviewing again just to find some quiet again. a couple couches and a weird rope sculpture thing doesn't a sound barrier make. it's gotten so bad that sales can't hear themselves on the phone anymore and are leaking over into the engineering side seeking quiet while making calls. apparently we're finally going to invest in some sound deadening because our customers can't hear us anymore.
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St Evan Echoes posted:thanks to my bose qc35s idgaf whether i work in a cube or open plan hell or w/e nope they're not enough for my office
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my company is small-ish and does that too, I don't necessarily think im any better at my job than my peers but I have a bunch of qualifiers on my title which I presume maps to my salary band or maybe it's just imposter syndrome 
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totally dumb question: should i even bother getting my bachelors? I have some dumb 2year AAS in Network Security which was mostly noise about ad in windows server 2003 which has literally zero to do with my six-figure SRE gig I have now i have enough credits to have a junior standing at u-Wisconsin when I dropped out to move back to chicago i think at this point it's probably personal achievement more than anything I'll probably go to u-illinois Chicago if I do go back
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hobbesmaster posted:will work pay for it no. if they did I'd do it just because free money
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the coo at the first place I worked was fired he then wrote a book about divvying up equity at the company in question and lol I didn't get poo poo at that place and I was paid garbage
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St Evan Echoes posted:i walk to work i bike to work the parking lot is underground so there's no point in trying to show off your dumb car because no one can see it; also you're just advertising that you're dumb enough to spend $350/mo on parking
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Diva Cupcake posted:If you're dumb enough to drive to work in NYC without it being expensable then probably. downtown chicago actually, and i'd be paying the skyscraper i work in not my own employer
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The Management posted:do you also pay the rent for your office? no, because my employer expects me to be there they don't expect me to commute by car, that's just stupid.
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Elder Postsman posted:anything bigger than like a minivan should need special permits to drive in downtown areas. mega agreedo'd my building was making the bike room larger this past weekend and switching from key to a keycard lock, im excited to see what it looks like on Monday (though it's supposed to rain all week so I guess I'll take the train that also is still only a 20 minute commute  what a bother)
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Bloody posted:if you cant make it to an 8 am interview you are unprofessional and dont deserve to be hired don't get me wrong, I'll probably still show up for the interview, but im gonna judge your place really heavily on how many people are in the office at 8:00 am because it had better be fuckin close to zero
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PokeJoe posted:100% raise this and still keep looking that place is doomed
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my favorite rejection letter story: i was working at some place and their internal recruiter just pinged one of my friends out of the blue. he asked me "hey should I work there" and I went "nah it's not that great, don't move here unless you really hate where you are" so he emails back to the recruiter a "thanks but no thanks" four weeks later he opens his mailbox and finds a rejection letter for a job he didn't even apply for 
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FrozenVent posted:yeah i think the r/relationship thread in gbs bought that one I believe that's correct, along with  the fact that they can be applied to abusive relationships and abusive employers is uh something.
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cis autodrag posted:my company just sent me on a month-long vacation they paid travel expenses for and all it did was give me enough time to come out of the fog of misery and realize it was my job that was doing that to me, lol. i spent my week slinging resumes around chicago and im going to do more this weekend. hey if u have experience in sre/java or python backend dev/whatever bullshit is involved with frontend send me a pm, I'm aiming to stack recruitment bonuses and i work for a not garbage place in the loop
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Blinkz0rz posted:generally this but our team is cloud focused rather than working on build systems. it's very much this. we also have a great rep and a great office and good compensation but we have a hell of a time finding senior SREs. at least once hired they stay put. we've more or less thrown our hands up and decided we can train juniors up, but finding good junior devops people is hard too!
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Rex-Goliath posted:I'm working for one of the rare places that grants unlimited vacation and gives you a funny look if you don't take PTO every quarter it's great same. it's so drat weird. "are you taking enough time off this month? go schedule some more time off. it's nice outside, leave work early and ride your bike."
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RISCy Business posted:hm, maybe i was lied to as someone who spent a very small time in the Milwaukee/madison tech scene they're known universally for picking up fresh grads and burning them out
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