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qirex posted:googling a review of it doesn't seem like too much of an ask though And barring that, listening to the howls of the people at your company that did read the book is probably the next best thing.
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rotor posted:like i mean i've interviewed plenty of people that have written books I've never read, and the idea that its some kind of wild oversight that no one sat down and read this novel a dude wrote seems weird It's not like he wrote a self-published fantasy novel that nobody read and it turned out it had something horrible buried on page 974 or something. mystes fucked around with this message at 22:40 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 22:38
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mystes posted:It's not a novel, it's a book about his time working on ads at Facebook, the thing that presumably got him the job offer from apple. its 200 pages and i aint readin it
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May 13, 2021 22:41
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I'm not telling you to read it Rotor.
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mystes posted:I'm not telling you to read it Rotor. im just mad about unrelated things and need somewhere to post it off
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rotor posted:im just mad about unrelated things and need somewhere to post it off
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mystes posted:The YOSPOS approved method is to start a pointless fight with Tori. im bored of that
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May 13, 2021 22:46
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idk maybe tomorrow
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in basecamp news, some more people quit: https://twitter.com/_breeeeen_/status/1392890221994332169
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I like my job and if they offered me 6 mos severance tomorrow I might take it
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rotor posted:So a while back at an old job we were interviewing for new engineering managers who'd oversee all devs (around 40-50 at the time). So they had various leads come in to interview him, and i was one of them. Lol I knew a guy exactly like this, he was a real smooth talker and managed to charm everyone. After college I saw an article that was raving about his "revolutionary" biomedical startup in the local paper. I met one of his coworkers at a MTG event and they mentioned that their CEO didn't know anything but took credit for all the work they were doing. 
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qirex posted:I like my job and if they offered me 6 mos severance tomorrow I might take it yeah they're really hard filtering for hardcore loyalists and true believers with this move. surely a net positive for workplace culture especially when you get to numbers like this, it feels kinda like colony collapse disorder, where you should take the severance while it's being offered, before the company shuts down with no notice (because lol dropped below WARN act threshold) and no funds for severance
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broad offers of voluntary redundancies or severance are a great way to ensure you only keep employees who are absolutely sure they are unemployable elsewhere.
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yeah, even if you were happy and fine with staying before half the company quit doesn't mean you'll want to stick around after half the company quits
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that was my takeaway. even if youre happy at the company and had no plans to move on, you really have to wonder if its a good idea to pin your future to a ship that just had half its crew jump overboard, especially if theyre offering 6 months salary to go out into a red hot job market
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Plorkyeran posted:yeah, even if you were happy and fine with staying before half the company quit doesn't mean you'll want to stick around after half the company quits idk man at this point you can probably just walk into management positions
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pokeyman posted:this is where I get confused with pinboard. he retweets this https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1392879799727796229 yeah like if you've got two thousand employees signing on in two hours that "hey this guy loving sucks" then, idk, you should probably listen to them
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FMguru posted:that was my takeaway. even if youre happy at the company and had no plans to move on, you really have to wonder if its a good idea to pin your future to a ship that just had half its crew jump overboard, especially if theyre offering 6 months salary to go out into a red hot job market yeah and its not like fully remote is that rare any more. i guess if you're a diehard ruby on rails person you might be kinda dead-ended but still
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Bloody posted:yeah and its not like fully remote is that rare any more. i guess if you're a diehard ruby on rails person you might be kinda dead-ended but still Yeah but we covered that: Trimson Grondag 3 posted:broad offers of voluntary redundancies or severance are a great way to ensure you only keep employees who are absolutely sure they are unemployable elsewhere.
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Would absolutely take a 6 month buyout, especially since its not even a big company or anything where taking the severance probably puts you on a do-not-hire list in the future
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i wonder if you can take the 6 months then get your old job back edit: yeah that ADINSX posted:Would absolutely take a 6 month buyout, especially since its not even a big company or anything where taking the severance probably puts you on a do-not-hire list in the future
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nrook posted:pinboard is the Matt Taibbi of tech and should be treated similarly you mean he sometimes picks questionable battles but he’s better, more honest, and consistent than 99% of his peers?
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rotor posted:i wonder if you can take the 6 months then get your old job back Oh I meant more like, who cares if they put you on a do not hire list (they probably do). Base camp dot com is probably not going to be one of the 2 or 3 mega companies that will rule our bleak cyberpunk future. I wouldn't want to close the door on one of those.
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rotor posted:its 200 pages and i aint readin it rotor we're all waiting for ur book report
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JawnV6 posted:rotor we're all waiting for ur book report Look, ok, fine, I admit it, I never learned to read - there, are you happy now? [runs out of room crying]
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a friend of mine is one of the people who took the basecamp deal, he’s a cool dude who absolutely deserves a better job than that and I’m happy for him that he is out of there
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kitten smoothie posted:a friend of mine is one of the people who took the basecamp deal, he’s a cool dude who absolutely deserves a better job than that and I’m happy for him that he is out of there
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I wonder what its like for those left behind, to go through 43% of tickets and bugs and projects and move them from “in progress” back to “ready”.
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ADINSX posted:Oh I meant more like, who cares if they put you on a do not hire list (they probably do). Base camp dot com is probably not going to be one of the 2 or 3 mega companies that will rule our bleak cyberpunk future. I wouldn't want to close the door on one of those. fwiw you can just tell amazon recruiters to gently caress off and they'll keep contacting you so im not really sure they care about do not hire lists
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Bloody posted:fwiw you can just tell amazon recruiters to gently caress off and they'll keep contacting you so im not really sure they care about do not hire lists got contacted by an amazon recruiter two weeks after interviewing with them and being rejected, so I’m guessing they have no lists at all whatsoever
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qirex posted:it recently came out that amazon also hires people specifically to fire them during performance reviews because they have to get rid of the “worst” people its just ballmer stack ranking (in turn stolen from welch at ge) nadella came in, did a purge of ballmer peeps. ballmer humself hosed off to own a sports team but his minions ran to amazon
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i loving hate the concept of stack ranking. and i work at amazon. hopefully the new AWS CEO turfs that poo poo
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qirex posted:it recently came out that amazon also hires people specifically to fire them during performance reviews because they have to get rid of the “worst” people in retrospect a really obvious effect of the system.
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