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evilneanderthal posted:Echoing what everyone else said. In all likelihood the engineering is garbage. The fact that they're offshoring means they're treating engineering like a cost center.
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Vulture Culture posted:Offshoring to India for highly collaborative dev work is really weird to me. Latin America is better in every conceivable respect. truth. i supervised a colombian shop that we retained to do our android app and they did superb work. we're giving them our iphone app now too and, if i get my way, our webapp
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Vulture Culture posted:Offshoring to India for highly collaborative dev work is really weird to me. Latin America is better in every conceivable respect. At my previous job, we offshored to a bunch of really good people in Ukraine, and then Putin bombed their office.
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b0lt posted:At my previous job, we offshored to a bunch of really good people in Ukraine, and then Putin bombed their office. Same. Last I heard the company hired the tech lead as a proper employee and shipped him over. That team was built in the same "best practices" mentioned above, i.e. a colleague and I went over and personally hired a couple of the best candidates and let them be involved in building out their team, but the separation and communication is still a blocker if you don't build remote accessibility into all your processes.
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Hell, my team struggles just with trying to sync engineers between Germany and the two US coasts, and this is with excellent people hired as FTE, really good video conferencing tech, and big travel budgets. Having none of that plus a body shop half a world away sounds like a nightmare.
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Pollyanna posted:I know, right? Few days late, but I've heard some pretty positive things about doing tech work for the city of Boston (I know the city's head data honcho). Great work/life balance, smart people, decent salary, interesting work. Probably worth keeping on it!
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Anyone have a salary range for a SE2 doing devops in Boston? I consider myself pretty well paid but I got my raise today and my manager had a weird look on his face when he asked if I had any problems with the updated comp so I figured I'd ask. If you don't want to share your salary that's fine. All I'm looking for is a range that's more reliable than Payscale or Glassdoor.
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Blinkz0rz posted:Anyone have a salary range for a SE2 doing devops in Boston? What's a SE2 in "years of experience"? Like midlevel 3~5 years?
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My favorite part about GlassDoor's salary ranges is that they're perfectly centered around your actual salary when you're the only person who has submitted one. So I kept submitting the previous year's salary, to fool any prying bosses. 
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CPColin posted:One of my former coworkers sent me a link to an open position on her team at her new job. She says the work/life balance is good and the pay and benefits are "great for SLO" (classic). She goes on to describe that most of the company is using waterfall and there's a substantial design and review process whenever her team needs to requests changes in the common code. CPColin posted:Not to invite comparisons to the Goon in the Well allegory, but I figure it wouldn't hurt to send my resume along and meet with my former coworker's boss anyway. If nothing else, it's more experience with talking about stuff professionally over lunch, right? I've got this lunch tomorrow, so I'm working tonight on figuring out how to ask the right questions and give this job a fair shake. Unemployment benefits don't last forever, after all! (But I don't want to set myself up to be miserable, of course.)
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CPColin posted:I've got this lunch tomorrow, so I'm working tonight on figuring out how to ask the right questions and give this job a fair shake. Unemployment benefits don't last forever, after all! (But I don't want to set myself up to be miserable, of course.) I'm sure you'll do the needful.
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What is stopping me from quitting a job and THEN going job hunting? Is it always 100% necessary to have a job lined up before quitting, or is it just best practice?
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Your budget; your confidence in finding a new job; your willingness to not have health insurance and other benefits; your ability to explain away the time gap in between quitting your old job and starting your new one to any future employers. That's about it really. I've had a couple times where I left an old job without having a new one lined up, and it hasn't torpedoed my career. Just be ready with explanations at interviews.
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Budget I can handle, its securing a job and insurance that bugs me. Insurance aside, I thought having a job made it easier to get one, so that'd be a reason to wait. Then again, I don't know how true that is. If it gets intolerable, I'll just ditch my current place. It's gotten REALLY bad and is only going to get worse (e.g. reorgs in the pipes, management meddling etc).
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Mar 8, 2017 20:21
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What's so bad about it? You go to work, get money, little to no chance of getting impaled by a forklift. If you'd rather work somewhere else, go convince somebody else to give you money for your skilled labor. It's that simple.
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Pollyanna posted:What is stopping me from quitting a job and THEN going job hunting? Is it always 100% necessary to have a job lined up before quitting, or is it just best practice? If you work in an industry or locale where it can take 6 months to find a new position, or if you have significant risk of ruin and no savings, it's good advice to play it safe. But if you're a single person with enough savings to cover a few months of no income and no children, it's not the end of the world (and it might make you feel better to eject from a bad situation). I forget what the term of art for it is, but leaving your job counts as a trigger which gives you the option to buy insurance on your state's ACA marketplace. If your insurance needs are low ("what if I get cancer?") then you can look for an affordable plan on there.
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Pollyanna posted:Budget I can handle, its securing a job and insurance that bugs me. Insurance aside, I thought having a job made it easier to get one, so that'd be a reason to wait. Then again, I don't know how true that is. If you're worried about having a gap in your insurance coverage, COBRA is usually available (though you'll be paying the full premium now which is usually pretty nasty if the plan you're on is decent). I've quit before I had something lined up. In general I wouldn't recommend it, it's a source of constant stress that only builds as time goes on until you become employed again. But sometimes it's the right choice, and that's something only you can really evaluate. Some people will look down on you for having any unemployment on your record, as if work is a virtue unto itself and you are somehow less for having not worked at some point in your life. You don't want to work for people like that anyway. Most won't care about a blip or two. If they ask you can give them something vague or even the truth (softened as much as possible so as not to sound angry or bitter). For what it's worth, it's probably safer to quit without something else lined up in this industry, than in most others. You shouldn't have much trouble finding a new gig in any case.
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fantastic in plastic posted:I forget what the term of art for it is, but leaving your job counts as a trigger which gives you the option to buy insurance on your state's ACA marketplace. If your insurance needs are low ("what if I get cancer?") then you can look for an affordable plan on there. It's also worth checking out short-term insurance plans if you are the only person covered and young/healthy. I've used eHealthInsurance.com (no affiliation) to check out various plans. As an example, my new job won't cover me for 2.5 months from the end of my old plan. Here were my options: COBRA from old company (Cadillac plan): $650/m Obamacare: $350/m Short-term insurance (HDHP, 20% coinsurance): $100/m It's worth noting that the short-term plans don't qualify as coverage under Obamacare, so unless Trump scraps the requirement, you must get qualifying insurance within a 3 month window. I never see the doctor and am (I think) pretty healthy, so I felt comfortable with the limited plan I picked. YMMV.
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Pollyanna I strongly recommend getting a job before quitting, you'll have a much easier time being choosy over your next employer that way.
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Getting laid off seems lit tho
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Good Will Hrunting posted:Getting laid off seems lit tho Having done both, it's definitely the better option. Less storytelling.
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sarehu posted:Pollyanna I strongly recommend getting a job before quitting, you'll have a much easier time being choosy over your next employer that way.
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Vulture Culture posted:Corollary: 100% of the time, you'll find it's much easier to negotiate salary/benefits for a job you don't need in the first place. This works when you're at a job that you're fine with going back to. If your thought process is "couldn't I just quit this shithole and figure things out later?" then you've already given up the ability to walk away from anything less than ideal. What I've done in the past is give myself a timeline of 3-6 months -- a little bit less than you think it'll take to get fired -- then job-hunt hard and let your work slip as needed.
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Mniot posted:This works when you're at a job that you're fine with going back to. If your thought process is "couldn't I just quit this shithole and figure things out later?" then you've already given up the ability to walk away from anything less than ideal.
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Vulture Culture posted:They don't know that your BATNA sucks unless you tell them that it sucks. Pretty much this. I got laid off once and when interviewing I never once said I wasn't working.
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I quit my last job without having anything lined up because I was having trouble interviewing due to the extremely life-invasive schedule (ops in a F100 non-tech is invariably poo poo), and being on-call and getting called often for nearly 2 years straight made me extremely irritable. This made the most basic of coding problems tougher to do, and even past that interview stage I was pretty irritable when it's not how really am even at a job I despise. Having burned out before and gotten a job despite the burn-out (and resulting in a relative backwards step in my career by every measure), I decided against interviewing during burn-out again. As a result, I normally keep 7+ months of expenses on-hand as cash and try to keep my eyes peeled for small gigs and am working on a better public project portfolio.
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I quit my first job (at 26) for some free time and I have it as "Retired" on my resume. It's gone over well with companies I've interviewed with and I've had a few jobs since then. I wouldn't retire again, but I don't regret it.
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Anyone know anything about System Engineer roles at Amazon? Someone from the Edge Services team emailed me yesterday, and I'm wondering how they interview for those vs pure SDE jobs.
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Any good recommendations for learning C++? I used it in college but not so much since then and my new role is working on a C++ code base. I'm coming from years of Java so the basics are fine but I'm drowning a sea of const* auto&& std::strings that must be rvalues.
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Stroustrup's A Tour of C++ was pretty good, although I ended up not using C++11 and it's been a bit since I read it. I'm a newbie myself, but isn't the double ampersand used for move semantics?
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mekkanare posted:Stroustrup's A Tour of C++ was pretty good, although I ended up not using C++11 and it's been a bit since I read it. Yes, move uses rvalue references. I'm not aware of other useful things to do with them, but I also don't currently spend most of my time in C++.
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Well I earned my "got laid off" badge last Friday. Hooray. My wife and I have been considering a move to the Pacific NW - we're in Kansas City currently. Does anyone have experience with hunting for relocation-type jobs while laid off? Is it wiser to find a stable position locally and then do the larger move planning or am I right in figuring that now's as good a time as any for a moonshot? Related, anyone know of goon-approved employers of C++ developers in the Portland or Seattle areas?  Good Will Hrunting posted:Getting laid off seems lit tho After the first what-the-gently caress shockwave passed it actually is looking pretty good. Like JawnV6 said it's completely explicable resume-wise, plus you don't have to spin any veiled criticism of your current employer's shenanigans.
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Had an in-person interview at a nice place, but one of the interviewers wasn't there because the interview day had been rescheduled once, due to weather. I interviewed with this last interviewer the day after via videoconference and in my opinion, it did not go nearly as well as any of the in-person interviews. Kicker: this last person is the director over the job function that I am interviewing for a role in. I already think it is plausibly reasonable but just wanted to take the temperature of the wise oldies: would it make sense to send a nice email to the hiring manager (different person, with whom I had a very nice interview among other interactions) talking mostly about how much I enjoyed the interviews etc. (which I genuinely did) and tack on a bit that (at least lightly) addresses how I think I screwed up the interview with the most important person I spoke with / how I did myself a disservice by talking about X instead of Y? (Hint: I think I want this job.)
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prisoner of waffles posted:Had an in-person interview at a nice place, but one of the interviewers wasn't there because the interview day had been rescheduled once, due to weather. I interviewed with this last interviewer the day after via videoconference and in my opinion, it did not go nearly as well as any of the in-person interviews. Can't really hurt to demonstrate enthusiasm, and if you are sure enough of your error, you can try addressing it. Shows you care, that you can improve on your own, etc. Just don't go admitting to a bunch of stuff that they might not have noticed.
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xpander posted:Anyone know anything about System Engineer roles at Amazon? Someone from the Edge Services team emailed me yesterday, and I'm wondering how they interview for those vs pure SDE jobs. Was it a system engineer job or a system development engineer job? The former requires minimal coding, whereas the other requires you to meet something close to an SDE.
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CTO pushed back my announcement to the team that my last day will be the 31st. This is the third time it's been pushed back. Should I just start telling people? He keeps using this "let's keep this between us" thing every time we discuss my departure. I've been training up someone to take on my current workload the last two weeks so I feel like this shouldn't be too much of a surprise to everyone. edit: We've lost a large amount of developers in a short amount of time. I guess he's just worried about morale? Still annoying. Rudest Buddhist fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Rudest Buddhist posted:Should I just start telling people? He keeps using this "let's keep this between us" thing every time we discuss my departure. What would be wrong with being straightforward with your CTO? Tell him why you want to let people know you're going and ask why he wants it to be delayed. If you leaving will be a morale event, telling people at the last second probably won't make it any better.
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csammis posted:Well I earned my "got laid off" badge last Friday. Hooray.  csammis posted:My wife and I have been considering a move to the Pacific NW - we're in Kansas City currently. Does anyone have experience with hunting for relocation-type jobs while laid off? Is it wiser to find a stable position locally and then do the larger move planning or am I right in figuring that now's as good a time as any for a moonshot? The "stable position" would ideally be some contracting thing where you can sling code for a few hours a day and bounce out to the coast when necessary both short and long-term. I couldn't walk into a salaried job knowing I was on the way out, but I suspect this principle would falter if my health care depended on it.
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