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Just got a Master's degree in compsci. Now I need a job. Any tips? Note: I'm in Canada. I fortunately have a nice local job board, but it's a slog - I got to the offer phase but we ultimately couldn't agree on a flexible schedule (I have a slightly broken body clock) and also they wanted me to come in w/ 50 other people every other week (I'm looking for fully remote work only until I and everyone I live with are vaccinated). I guess it's just sending out resumes, but it's starting to get to me.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:protip: leave canada I don't have to pay $999999 if I get sick, though, so... tradeoff?  Seriously, I don't want to work for big tech. I want a job in the city I'm in.
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Nov 19, 2020 08:18
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Boiled Water posted:Which city is that? Victoria, BC. And there isn't anything stopping me, sure, but anyone big enough to have a silicon valley branch already risks being big enough to set off red flags in my head on account of their sheer size.
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Nov 19, 2020 09:05
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Acer Pilot posted:probably more opportunities in the gvrd tbh. most of the faangs are here and are doing remote [nod] My dream is actually working for a company on the smaller side (not more than 100ish employees, could be closer to 25 or less) just generally being a Useful Computer Person. Goodness knows there's enough call for such. Quackles fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Nov 19, 2020 09:18
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you didnt need a mscs for that I did if I wanted to not be treated like a code monkey while doing it. Mostly, though, I did the Master's because I didn't want to leave university.
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Nov 19, 2020 09:42
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Acer Pilot posted:did you do any co-op? what did you specialize in for that msc? I already have a job on my resume with a company that did an online map thing. So I have roughly 7 years of experience. The MSC was in distributed systems. Specifically Byzantine Agreement. TheFluff posted:most workplaces/bosses hate flexible hours, because they love control. you can sometimes get them to accept it once you have some leverage in the negotiation (that is, your value to the company), but finding a smaller company that accepts flexible hours for a junior position, in a city with a population of 85k, during the covid-19 situation, is needle-in-haystack territory. best of luck - you'll need it. I'm applying for Senior Developer positions, which are both comparatively more numerous, and also I qualify for with my experience, etc. Also, I don't need full flex hours, just time-shifted ones (start later in the day, end later in the day). Would it help if I posted my (redacted) resume? Quackles fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Nov 19, 2020 18:50
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Schadenboner posted:Hey, don't blame me: I tried to tell them but they still passed me to the next round! A philosophy of job hunting: You have a friend named Davetthew. He is not very good technically, but he is overwhelmingly full of confidence, and as such he applies for jobs he thinks he'd be even only somewhat qualified at. However, his confidence in himself often carries him through otherwise unfortunate spots of the hiring process. You're better than Davetthew, but you don't have as much confidence - so, when you're not sure about yourself, "what would Davetthew do?"
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Nov 20, 2020 20:21
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syntaxrigger posted:So my primary exit strategy didn't work out. Seems they went with someone else. Which I am not letting get to me. [shrug] I've found that porting my experience from one language to another is the easy part (unless it's Objective-C). The hard part is working with existing libraries, frameworks, etc. - especially if they're poorly documented.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:28
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You forgot Python.
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Mar 24, 2021 17:02
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DuckConference posted:We take this issue very seriously. We broke your trust, and we're going to do better moving forwards. Well, of course. With some care and attention, you can snipe with an opinion on programming languages on every new page. 
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Mar 24, 2021 18:02
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Private Speech posted:One company I'm interviewing with wants me to make ring-0 spy software to put on employees computers (they are a cybersecurity company). ‘Ewwwwww’ sounds about right, to be honest. Are they at least planning to pay you a king’s ransom?
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Mar 30, 2021 16:32
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asur posted:Also gently caress that dude who said a person's resume is garbage. You're never changing his mind so you might as well walk out and tell the boss or recruiter why. This happened to someone I know: Founder: "We didn't consider your Masters in Computer Science to be relevant experience. I don't really put much stock in education because I'm not educated myself." This was for a developer job. 
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Apr 19, 2021 01:18
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carry on then posted:culture fit lmao Apparently, in the foyer, that company had themed pictures from several Christmases with the staff dressed up as a family (and one dressed up as the dog).
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Apr 19, 2021 04:21
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i dunno what foreplay means in your corner of the world but thats just a horny rear end recruiter thing horny rear end-recruiter? 🤔
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Apr 30, 2021 17:30
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raminasi posted:out of curiosity, was there a non-obvious reason for this or were you just that set on only hiring people who give away their labor in their free time Would you hire an artist without a portfolio?
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May 8, 2021 00:10
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taco_fox posted:lol if you think I have any desire to write code if I don't get paid for it Please understand that I don't intend this as any sort of slam on you, dig at you, etc. But I'm curious. What made you decide to go into programming in the first place, if you knew you didn't really like doing it that much? I ask because I find that I find it hard to avoid writing code purely for my own utility or amusement, quite outside of what I do for work.
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May 8, 2021 02:00
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Achmed Jones posted:what is waas? was not was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiDcJi534Y
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May 28, 2021 03:14
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Wait, you make how much in Victoria? Doing what? I was under the impression wages for programmers, at least, were depressed there.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:46
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Good to know. I suspect what employers are willing to pay has gone up since 6 months ago.
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Jul 23, 2021 23:02
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huhu posted:Yesterday was my last day. Today they laid off 30% of the company, 50% of the engineers. My glass of "I told yall so" tastes real good tonight. How much of "the clan" got laid off?
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Sep 3, 2021 01:59
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huhu posted:0 lol. Shoulda joined.
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Sep 3, 2021 06:59
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Gazpacho posted:i keep getting these contacts where the 'crooter emphasizes that the client company's founders are mega-rich, like that's supposed to motivate me interviewing: where the wild 'crooter roars
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Sep 24, 2021 01:40
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Kernel Sanders posted:stop saying ”puter”, you’re not twelve interviewing: stop saying 'puter, start saying 'crooter Quackles fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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Sep 29, 2021 09:10
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Achmed Jones posted:on the upside, you'd definitely get that "interesting and challenging" feeling for the first few years. and in tech you can switch jobs pretty often to bring it back. it's always temporary though - at some point you just know what you're doing and the opportunities for real interesting problem solving slow to a trickle. but that's what hobbies are for! That's only if you're inspired by the macro level challenge. What I find interesting is the micro level - the writing of the code itself. I will never be bored in the life I have chosen.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:54
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Achmed Jones posted:i guess you're lucky - most code i deal with isn't interesting or difficult (unless you're switching frameworks/languages/etc) No, I mean that the act of programming itself is what I enjoy, regardless of what the code is.
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Oct 3, 2021 03:03
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champagne posting posted:the solution to this terrible systemic issue is forcing refractors everywhere you go (if at all possible) have your workaround be the refactor
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Oct 3, 2021 10:45
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echinopsis posted:everyone at work gets pissed off at the doctors loving up prescriptions (it happens all the time) but it's so obvious to me that it's their lovely software lol I try to read my doctor's prescriptions after he signs them, but I can't read his handwriting
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Oct 5, 2021 05:20
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CarForumPoster posted:epic is a big improvement in many cases I almost got hired by an EMR company. Well. Almost got hired is a bit of a stretch. First, they said, "We don't think you're qualified for the intermediate programmer position, would you be interested in a junior programmer position?" I regarded this as a mortal insult, but I needed a job so I went to the interview anyway. Then, at the interview, the founder said to me (in person), "I didn't count your Master's degree as worth anything because I'm not educated myself." We parted on poor terms. I didn't get the job.
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Oct 5, 2021 16:55
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The Fool posted:actually no, he’s just an rear end in a top hat He sounded pretty apologetic as he said it. I suspect he's had one or more people blow up at him for similar remarks before. Edit: Also, I had a number of years actual work experience and he was down on me 'cause I didn't do co-ops in university ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quackles fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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Oct 5, 2021 18:47
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cinci zoo sniper posted:decent but not MANGA (Facebook is now Meta). I’m torn between saying “that’s a pretty cool acronym” and “Facebook needs its old name to stick around like a scarlet letter F”
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Nov 4, 2021 19:38
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:put your contact info and then the job posting text verbatim; nobody is going to read it other than the applicant tracking system I’m like 80% sure this is terrible advice. I’ve read that ATS auto-rejects happen a lot less than people think.
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Nov 25, 2021 00:13
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QuantumPotato posted:oof. had a first interview for a senior position at SketchUp yesterday, things were going pretty well, then in literally the last 5 minutes had a technical question sprung on me, it wouldn't have been so bad except they wanted me to write actual code in a shared google doc. was the classic "find the longest consecutive string of 1s in an array of 1s and 0s" question, but with the abrupt context switch from personal questions, the awkwardness of coding in a word processor, and the time limit, i blanked and things didn't go well. i was able to fumble out a solution, but it wasn't great. Ew, they couldn't even spring for a CoderPad?
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Dec 1, 2021 18:14
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KirbyKhan posted:Currently thinking of pivoting to being a content moderator for Metaverse. My cover letter would be my steam achievements page for Hypnospace Outlaw. My reference would be an SA mod. I don't know if this is a shitpost or not, but be aware that Facebook content moderators don't get enough therapy and there's no guarantee the stuff you flag will get taken down at all. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
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Apr 28, 2022 02:30
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PCjr sidecar posted:are you this good at getting jokes in real life too I'm standing in here, aren't I?
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Apr 28, 2022 05:48
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qirex posted:I have a friend who was interviewing there but she wasn't super stoked on it so I told her "just say a really stupid number" and she texted me back like 2 days later just "welp" "Yeah, I'll sell you Minecraft... for 1 billion dollars."
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May 3, 2022 08:52
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its new es6 hosed up poo poo, is the rub. spread operators and arrow funcs far as the eye can see Wait, what’s wrong with arrow functions?
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May 12, 2022 21:59
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Achmed Jones posted:gently caress it achmed claims the quad achmed takes the fifth?
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Jun 9, 2022 20:44
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qirex posted:(in fair YOSPOS, where we lay our scene), 
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Jun 22, 2022 23:19
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post hole digger posted:pretty sure our corp values include the phrase 'outrageously audacious' somewhere in there. i janitor fuckin containers for a living. shut up. Are they outrageously audacious containers?
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Jun 25, 2022 00:40
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hobbesmaster posted:if anyone wants to know the way you’re supposed to handle that according to Amazon specific interview coaches (a very real thing that exists) you identify the leadership principle (every question should map to one primarily) and tell one of the stories you prepared that is applicable to that leadership principle. No offence, but that sounds like a bunch of bull-💩.
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