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Fiedler posted:are you basing this on the resume? if so... yeah step 1 is the same as always, figure out if their resume is a pack of lies where would they be joining your org? senior on your team? in your management chain? assuming step 1 goes well and you're not able to grill them technically, i've focused on behavioral questions. "can you describe a time when a junior engineer was stuck on a problem, and what steps you took to help them?" and interpret the answer as 'what if my boss did X'. it's totally okay to say "no hire, could code circles around me but is a jerk and wouldn't be a culture fit with our org"
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Rex-Goliath posted:if he was at a level where it’d be enforceable he wouldn’t have to wonder about it. they’re almost always bullshit did you miss the sandwich shops getting into giant lawsuits over noncompetes a couple years back? cousin of mine in texas basically switched careers after leaving one place
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i dunno what fantasy world you're in where wage slaves have lawyerbux to even mount a fight against something like that, but jimmy johns had egregious non-competes in their sandwich artist contracts up thru 2016 the non-poaching (i work at mcdonalds A, i want a job at mcdonalds B, company won't let me even think about it) BS is just getting struck down now like you could be giving really lovely ruinous advice and handwaving away legitimate risk depending on the state,, idk maybe sort that out
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Jul 18, 2018 00:45
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Bloody posted:how the gently caress do i do a phone screen im supposed to screen someone this week the only question you're answering is "is it worth flying this person out and burning X hours from Y engineers/managers for an onsite" the bar can be really low. you want some of the normal "is this resume a pack of lies" I've done all of the following on systems phone screens: 1) function to convert big-to-little endian 2) shared code pad, simple coding exercises like popcount/word count (note that word count is not counting spaces) 3) shared word doc, drew up a block diagram for a fitness tracker at the end of 30~60 minutes, you need enough signal to justify bringing them on-site or ending the process
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i had healthcare as employee #1 at a startup that laid me off later, what kind of circus isn't
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Blinkz0rz posted:you must be a delight to work with jfc idk is the exact proper cynicism level that easy to nail? i go back and forth
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Jul 27, 2018 02:20
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at the FLIR hackathon, milling around outside the building before anyone was allowed in, the first words spoken to me were "are you a programmer" so yeah you've got a good shot
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Bloody posted:i could probably pivot to being a systems engineer but that feels like an extremely pigeonholing move to literally just aerospace and defense Janitor Prime posted:Also telecom think how many systems engineers places like fitbit, jawbone, sonos, etc. have
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Aug 2, 2018 19:48
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Bloody posted:to be clear when i say systems engineer i mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering uhhhh how do you think CE products supported by huge backend systems come into being without requirements, verification, FMEA.... like im sorry i insulted you with the low-grade trash im involved with, but this is absolutely a role that every CE company has if you can't stand those two industries
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i interviewed for a systems engineer at fitbit, it was the FW folks and EE folks basically asking "are you gonna gently caress me over with lovely HW" and a lot of poking at block diagrams. the worst was power analysis, the bad cop was on a video link from san diego and gave zero feedback until the very end when he joked "lol you've obviously done power analysis before, but your #'s for BLTE chips are X years out of date and that's easy to learn" honestly the further i stay from PLM systems the happier I am, so
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Aug 2, 2018 22:18
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there'll be a NDA probably a ridiculous one, like signing away your rights to ever work on anything in the 2.4GHz spectrum ever again because once you hear their idea for, idk, a concert badge that tracks participants with UHF semi active RFID tags you'll obviously go make all the money with it
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Aug 7, 2018 23:02
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correct any yes/no is less cost to them than unanswered spam one of my biggest fans uses the line "PLEASE, indicate either "interested," "maybe later," or "no thanks" to this message, so I don’t bother you again if you're not interested."
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this week i've gotten 2 cold calls, one from goog and one from I'm helping Matternet, one of the only FAA-approved drone companies, grow their engineering team. They use aerial drone technology to deliver medical supplies to developing parts of the world with no access to hospitals or emergency medical assistance.
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ThePeavstenator posted:I'm only planning on taking this job if they give me an obnoxious raise. ThePeavstenator posted:Got an offer...for like 2/3s of what I get now in every aspect of compensation. ThePeavstenator posted:Turned down the offer. They didn't want to budge on pay and also the employment contract included things like waiving my right to sue and only settling disputes through arbitration. I haven't seen that in an employment contract before and it set off some internal alarm bells. I've seen non-competes and "we own your intellectual property unless you put every idea you've ever had before working here in this box" clauses, but is waiving your right to sue normal?
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Aug 22, 2018 02:30
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idk there's a lot of non-obvious stuff i've been coached on that i doubt i would've stumbled on through interview volume? "tell me about yourself!" give yourself 30s, max. make it punchy, memorable, and cut yourself off before you bore them to death with minutia. they should want to know more on those open ended questions just give a barrage of goofball conditions. the one I remember is "if you're in a boat and throw a rock overboard, what happens to the water line on the side of the boat?" and just listing off ridiculous assumptions that had to hold. you're assuming the boat is floating, the water is liquid, the rock is more dense than water, etc. etc. that said I wouldn't pay for a coach
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Doom Mathematic posted:"Haha, I got you! The water line was actually an ice line!" ostensibly, that's what the question is looking for. the wrongest answer is digging your heels in, with all those unstated assumptions lurking about, and insisting on the one up/down answer that'd be on a physics test that style has fallen out of favor but unstylish folks often have jobs with money, so
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qhat posted:I guess my sticking point with this role in particular is it demands a couple years experience, mostly because this company really does not need any more junior devs or people with little understanding of basic things like testing and best practices. qhat posted:Networking, distributed systems, advanced databases, security, cloud engineering to name a few big ones that I really wish people at this company had even a cursory understanding of. my degree contained none of them
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Aug 28, 2018 16:48
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Pollyanna posted:I also can’t justify why we shouldn’t ask the knights tour problem with anything other than “I hate it” do you actually arrange knights on a chess board in your day to day? if you're hoping the candidate wrangles a graph problem out of it, why not just ask a graph problem that's relevant to your work
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Aug 28, 2018 18:22
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Rex-Goliath posted:i can’t believe i never realized this but having a candidate write tests for a piece of your already existing code would be real good interview material sounds like an unpaid internship
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Aug 29, 2018 01:01
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uh, can you tell us about a time that you got direction from above and how you responded? like i've heard awful, awful answers to behavioral questions. i dont think "lying" is strictly required, but take a sec to dress up something in agreeable language bad: "yeah those wankers tried to get me to use 'version' 'control' but i laughed in their faces. when can i start?" good: "while our relationship was not stellar, they did recommend a tool that i hadn't previously incorporated into my workflow. i reluctantly investigated it, but determined the velocity of our release schedule couldn't accommodate it"
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Sep 13, 2018 18:28
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hobbesmaster posted:if you’re actually good at it you should jump over to management or technical marketing/sales lmao with talking to people and deliverables? no thank u
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Sep 14, 2018 20:16
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meatpotato posted:鬼神 hire ‘em all 1099
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Sep 20, 2018 02:56
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meatpotato posted:ahh, to feel wanted congrats 
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Sep 21, 2018 01:29
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why are y'all asking for feedback what's the best case result from that
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Sep 27, 2018 00:47
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CPColin posted:You get to laugh at the dumb reasons they give? Ploft-shell crab posted:any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies?
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qsvui posted:that reminds me of someone in a coc thread saying that was perfectly reasonable. lol indeed. they went hog wild with it, that tangent was ridiculous
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Ciaphas posted:anyone who wanted to hurt me could probably figure out who and where i am without any effort at this point god 20 bootcamp grads do it daily in the gray forums version, you can probably redact your own info if you're legit concerned (idk anything about clearances) feel free to PM me or send it on slack
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Oct 4, 2018 01:15
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ahahaha yeah who doesn't want to obsess over shoes on the subway, real mystery here
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Oct 16, 2018 19:36
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:dipshit business people obsess over shoes in the midwest, too. you're being judged whether you notice it or not weird how this went from being "some rando senior dev in the midwest" to being personally addressed to me, this sure has the hallmarks of a good-faith discussion and isn't you just blasting your insecurities out at anyone who'll listen nope
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yeah, lotta folks hate their WA income tax and move to NYC to avoid it
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hey if u hate property taxes lemme tell you about this sweet deal we've got in CA
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Bloody posted:a manager i really like is interested in having me switch teams
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lolMononcQc posted:yeah basically you can see remote work in all kinds of variations from "babbi's first remote" to "full blown remote": the one area where it really worked was 24h debug. we'd work 8 hours, hand off to somewhere in yurop, they'd work for 8 and hand off to malaysia, we'd wake up and the problem was 16 hours ahead. like magic. KoRMaK posted:I'm very open to that idea, but I don't think I was a dick about offering. I was always really supportive of helping them. I was very very patient with them, but I will say I wasn't absolutely perfect. It was a very trying relationship. They didn't know anything about how like classes or instances worked, or how variables and their scopes were defined, which means they basically misrepresented themselves in the interview. So anyway, whatever it was I was tooooo much of a dick from his perspective. But for me, and the other devs that had to work with him, they said I demonstrated really good patience.
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Gazpacho posted:which makes interviewers panic oh totally
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Cold on a Cob posted:- when was the last time you missed a meal with your family or a personal event because you were stuck at work? Cold on a Cob posted:yeah i need a more oblique and less aggressive way to ask that Rex-Goliath posted:yeah this is what the ‘how does the team react when it becomes clear they won’t make a deadline?’ is for
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Nov 12, 2018 20:20
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pointsofdata posted:Just saw "the bulk of turnover is voluntary" as an hr response to a glassdoor review about high turnover the volunteering will continue until morale improves
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Nov 27, 2018 20:43
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the pros just ship their RSA token to china
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FMguru posted:if your tech chops are good enough to work in gaming, theyre good enough to work in an industry that doesnt have all three of those characteristics he mentioned the game he worked on and i bought it, his reaction being "god im sorry, i hope you didn't pay full price"
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it's a shame all these interview processes railroad The One True Resume thru the entire length of the process without chance of deviation like imagine if at some point you talked to a hiring manager and could say "ahaha oh that's just SEO to get past HR, here's a simpler tech-focused one for you and your team" too bad no humans exist, anywhere, and it's all robots
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ratbert90 posted:I have been asking the question: "I have a 100Mb/s internet connection, how long will it take me to download a 100MB file?" for the last several months to candidates. 
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