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Hello friends. I am starting my job search in earnest today. Please wish me luck.
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qhat posted:Screening resumes today. One of them had the janky LaTeX font and immediately went into the selected pile. Thank the good lord for the gross and ugly LaTeX font helping me screen candidates. I'm glad my resume finds you in good health.
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Aug 13, 2018 20:58
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Had a phone interview today. It went okay? I think the company is neat so hopefully they bring me in for an interview. I guess worst case scenario it's good practice for the next one.
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Aug 17, 2018 02:41
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So this phone interview has turned into a real one. What's the best way to learn algorithms in a week?
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Aug 17, 2018 17:57
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PokeJoe posted:Invent a time machine and take a class on it. Or power through a book on them. I figured this would be the case. I have an EE degree so my classes were more focused on janitoring individual bits. Gonna be a busy week!
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Aug 17, 2018 19:18
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Corla Plankun posted:i know how you feel, my undergrad was EE too Thanks for the pep talk, framing it in terms of embedded stuff seems like it will be helpful. I appreciate the link, I'll check that out. Arcsech posted:I ran into binary search a lot too This would be cool for me because binary search is essentially how I understand run times of log(n) in general.
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Aug 18, 2018 01:22
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Had my interview today, I think it went pretty well. I spent most of the last week reading as much of the CLRS algorithms book as I could and doing lots of problems from cracking the coding interview and on hackerrank, so thanks for those recommendations. Now we play the waiting game.
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Aug 23, 2018 19:40
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ADINSX posted:Congrats... I'm playing that waiting game now and its the worst loving part. See you in the land of milk and figgies 
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Aug 23, 2018 23:41
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I got an email today wanting to set up a phone screen for a position I applied for three months ago. Can you hire anyone operating with that kind of turnaround time? In any case it felt real good to send a 'sorry pal I took another job in September' email.
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Nov 8, 2018 03:50
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Corla Plankun posted:god drat i am so hyped for the sequel to Ciaphas where he gets that Good Job and those good Good Bennies
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Dec 8, 2018 06:10
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I was under the impression that asking for references (let alone actually calling them) had fallen out of favor, is that not the case?
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Dec 21, 2018 17:47
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Ciaphas posted:ended up quitting mine today Good luck friend I believe in you
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Jan 29, 2019 19:32
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Ciaphas posted:nbsd wouldn't be proud of how hard i managed to negotiate myself out of some figgies, but  Congrats!
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Mar 11, 2019 18:20
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gonadic io posted:I have no idea. I'm a white cishet dude with a compsci undergrad, so it can't be any of the usual culprits Sounds like your beard isn't big enough
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Mar 14, 2019 13:04
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Kilometres Davis posted:How loving good does it feel to be served up a problem you've already practiced though? drat this feels like a pretty tidy encapsulation of a lot of tech's hiring problems and class mobility more generally
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Apr 5, 2019 12:51
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supabump posted:today i interviewed a college hire with a section on their resume titled "skills and interests" followed by an unorganized list of words Nice. Gonna add "Experience and Aspirations" to mine. Lots of callbacks headed my way next round
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May 3, 2019 14:11
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FMguru posted:gently caress 'em up, captain Agreed
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Jun 17, 2019 02:36
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Start the call off with a diatribe about how figgies are a logarithmic scale and they better be showing up with a p. deece 6.5
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Jun 18, 2019 14:34
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Achmed Jones posted:yeah good point. the list is now: Is this really the appropriate time to list your fetishes?
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Jun 21, 2019 05:04
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TimWinter posted:I interviewed someone today who asked me, rapid fire, questions about our testing stack and then retracted his offer mid interview. His reason was "your stack isn't wrong, but it's more trouble than it's worth to maintain". I should have done this because our testing is loving abominable
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Jul 18, 2019 02:14
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pathetic little tramp posted:... suck my dick gently caress this bitch? I think the kids say from the back these days
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Jul 18, 2019 16:21
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iospace posted:Remember: discussing pay and benefits in the US (and likely elsewhere) with your coworkers is 100% legal, and if HR gives you pushback, tell them that is a "protected employee action". At my last job every year during bonus season they would give you a letter talking about how details of your compensation were confidential and that we were not to share that info. Before I left I dropped a tip in my departments anonymous feedback form citing the national labor relations act of 1935 letting them know that salary discussion was protected speech. This apparently escalated in a public way all the way to headquarters and the CEO, who wanted to know who left that tip. They no longer give out that letter with your bonus. I also heard through the grapevine that a bunch of the newer hires at the headquarters passed around a spreadsheet with all of their salary and bonus information, and a lot of 3-5 year people found out they were making as much as the new grads. Management is way pissed off about this but can do nothing about it and a ton of young people are asking for more money. 
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Jul 27, 2019 18:18
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LaCroixy mate
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Aug 16, 2019 02:11
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qirex posted:since I'm not a developer most of my time is "behavioral" questions when I interview, it's a good chance to ask them about their teams and process and look for red flags. also many people will think you're a great candidate if you ask 2 good questions then nod and say platitudes like "I've been there" while they talk about themselves for the whole 30 minute slot I've been there
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Sep 17, 2019 00:59
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When I was looking to make the switch to computer touching, I applied to a position at a manufacturing analytics company. The CEO then reached out to me on LinkedIn and asked me to take a personality assessment. The results must have been pretty bad (personality type:  YOSPOSTER ), because I never got so much as a "sorry, we've decided to go in another direction" from them after that
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Dec 19, 2019 14:35
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elite_garbage_man posted:Try not to take interviewing too personally. Oh, I'm not worried about it - not least because I don't think the tests mean anything. Mostly it was just a joke that the results were so bad he thought it best not to contact me again after going to the trouble to reach out through a medium that wasn't on my resume and start the process. In reality I'm sure this JawnV6 posted:the outputs of a hiring process are not correlated to the inputs this strongly is the real answer
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Dec 20, 2019 00:19
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qhat posted:do not bother with masters degrees unless you plan on getting a phd or you plan on applying for jobs abroad I thought that in the US it was typical to go straight from undergrad to a PhD program
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Jan 12, 2020 19:43
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Achmed Jones posted:it is, but you get a masters on the way. a lot of people also use a terminal masters to get into a PhD program that's better than what they could've got into straight out of undergrad. in that case they end up with two masters Good to know, I thought the masters along the way was a consolation prize if you left the program after 2+ years. Maybe that depends on the field
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Jan 12, 2020 19:56
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Ferr posted:I ended up with a phone screen for a job I'm under-qualified for and I can't decide if I should cancel and save the time or try to summon my mediocre white man energy If you aren't stealing from your job you're stealing from your family
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Jan 17, 2020 20:21
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May I recommend the bloody maneuver?
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Feb 13, 2020 03:30
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barkbell posted:took new job ty goons
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Feb 18, 2020 00:45
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That's why you get the stud fee up front
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Feb 19, 2020 04:28
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PokeJoe posted:I'm done, it went pretty alright. I might actually have 2 job offers soon! Make them fight
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Mar 5, 2020 23:52
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When it comes to negotiation there are two diametrically opposed schools of thought
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Mar 6, 2020 00:50
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i was going to have an in-person interview today. the recruiter hit me up last week and pried a ton trying to get me to give up a number. i was steadfast in that i wanted to have that conversation with the employer directly. this weekend he sent an email reminding me about today’s interview and that he volunteered a target salary for me. i told him he could cancel the interview because i wasn’t going to deal with that bullshit. 
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Mar 9, 2020 20:22
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:lmao that’s definitely a bot Are you sure? It seems really unlikely that they'd name a robot to the list of top thirty CEOs 
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Mar 11, 2020 17:36
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jesus WEP posted:theres a github user that is a microsoft bot and it apparently gets more recruiter emails than most of their employees lmao 
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Mar 11, 2020 18:02
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Just had a phone interview with a company that saw my 1.5 years of development experience and thought I would be a fit for a senior software engineer. It went well and they're moving me on to step two. Keep your fingers crossed for me because this would nearly double the ol salary
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May 15, 2020 20:02
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3rd party recruiters are incentivized to get people hired at the lowest possible salary, right? I just had a tech screen that went well. The recruiter texted me afterwards and was super pushy about my current base salary, even after I said that based on the responsibilities of the position it wouldn't be worth it to me to switch for less than $number. I guess mostly I'm curious how they structure their business. I assume they're given a target range from the company and when they place someone they get a flat commission plus a fraction of how much lower they get the candidate compared to the target range. Is that roughly correct?
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May 21, 2020 01:36
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That all tracks, thank you
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May 21, 2020 02:21
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