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meatpotato posted:my advice to all is don’t compromise your principles in work. don’t work for idiots, don’t make idiotic products. best case is you’ll regret it. worst case is you’ll become an idiot. I clicked the 'NICE!' button on this post.
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jony neuemonic posted:i think i just hate working tbqh. 
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I think I might finally be leaving this shitshow of a job in ~3mo. And thank god. Not even going to think about getting another job for another 3mo after that
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this week i'll probably get an offer from a company that would allow me to leave the sinking ship i'm at now, otoh i really want some downtime (spent my last substantial "vacation" looking for a job) and there's other goals that this job wouldn't allow me to realize and gee whiz i'm getting old
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Gazpacho posted:this week i'll probably get an offer from a company that would allow me to leave the sinking ship i'm at now, otoh i really want some downtime (spent my last substantial "vacation" looking for a job) and there's other goals that this job wouldn't allow me to realize and gee whiz i'm getting old ask them for a start date beginning sometime after you’ve left your current job. if you’re in the US remember that if you leave at the beginning of the month your health insurance is still good for the entire month.
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Feb 20, 2018 05:02
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TimWinter posted:I clicked the 'NICE!' button on this post. NICE 
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Feb 20, 2018 05:03
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Pollyanna posted:im not good enough to work for non-idiots not with that attitude!!
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Feb 20, 2018 05:03
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meatpotato posted:not with that attitude!! youre right  but what use can a lovely half-rails half-react developer be? well im sure i can learn and im sure i am useful somehow
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Feb 20, 2018 05:05
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Agreeing with the I hate working post. Am I an idiot for reading indiehackers.com day dreaming about bootstrapping my own retarded B2B SaaS app? Has anyone in this forum done this
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Feb 20, 2018 05:17
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Pollyanna posted:youre right you can always learn a new thing. i started on php.
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Feb 20, 2018 05:46
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meatpotato posted:ask them for a start date beginning sometime after you’ve left your current job. if you’re in the US remember that if you leave at the beginning of the month your health insurance is still good for the entire month.
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Feb 20, 2018 05:56
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My technical direction is cold hard cash from the highest bidder
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Feb 20, 2018 11:26
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Valeyard posted:My technical direction is cold hard cash from the highest bidder
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meatpotato posted:ask them for a start date beginning sometime after you’ve left your current job. if you’re in the US remember that if you leave at the beginning of the month your health insurance is still good for the entire month.
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Feb 20, 2018 14:05
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updated my linked in with a few choice keywords, now all the lovely recruiters are rolling in.
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Feb 20, 2018 14:42
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Dongslayer. posted:
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jony neuemonic posted:you can always learn a new thing. i started on php. im considering learning SRE work which is apparently a bunch of linux work and containers n poo poo, but i always learn on the job so you need a job to get good enough for a job and aaaaaaaaaaaa
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Feb 20, 2018 15:47
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interview today wish me lukk
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Pollyanna posted:interview today wish me lukk
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:godspeed wish me luck in writing an implementation of merge sort
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Feb 20, 2018 16:32
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just just bogo sort
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there was a story the other day on bbc ws about the future of AI interviewing also Laszlo Bock had a bit on it and it was a good reminder that afaik everything he ever talks about, google never did, so idgi how he keeps getting to run around using that position as a source of prestige for this knowledge
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Feb 20, 2018 18:23
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i have to interview someone soon and i have no idea what im doing. what should i ask them
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Feb 20, 2018 19:24
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ask them to sketch out the problem they solved that they’re most proud of
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Feb 20, 2018 19:37
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PokeJoe posted:i have to interview someone soon and i have no idea what im doing. what should i ask them what level position
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Feb 20, 2018 19:52
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a guy above me lol. hes gonna be the technology lead on my platform
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Feb 20, 2018 19:53
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is it disingenuous to market myself as 2 years of rails exp if I haven’t touched it in over a year? cause I’m paranoid of people asking me obscure rails trivia as a screening/technical q
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What exactly is it this guy needs to do? I'd recommend looking at the job description and building the interview very specifically around that. Think about what level of incompetence you really don't want your future lead to have and carve out some questions to expose that. Give him a hard real world problem to solve, preferably something you've seen on the job, and see how he handles it. Ideally he should come to a similar or better conclusion that your team/old lead did.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:33
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Valeyard posted:My technical direction is cold hard cash from the highest bidder
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Pollyanna posted:is it disingenuous to market myself as 2 years of rails exp if I haven’t touched it in over a year?
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Feb 20, 2018 20:36
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I don't market my skills in terms of years, just either strong or familiar. Unless of course the job description is very specific about it, then I'll put the years explicitly in the cover letter.
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Pollyanna posted:is it disingenuous to market myself as 2 years of rails exp if I haven’t touched it in over a year? you suffered rails and ruby for 2 years and by god you should put it in your resume if you are seeking a rails or ruby job if you're worried about interview questions just do some rails poo poo until you remember if you are worried about looking dishonest or something put the date of the job where you used rails. though i advice against putting dates in resumes since it makes them look dated.
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yeah I basically just think through the basics of rails stuff before I do interviews, but I get nervous people will ask me about STI or sthShinku ABOOKEN posted:though i advice against putting dates in resumes since it makes them look dated. can’t tell if this is a pun or not
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Feb 20, 2018 20:52
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cause there’s a lot about rails and some of that poo poo I’ve just never had to use or care about do I look like a dope if they ask me about it
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experience is the currency of the job market. if you don't wave your experience around, what else have you got?
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:if you are worried about looking dishonest or something put the date of the job where you used rails. though i advice against putting dates in resumes since it makes them look dated. 
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re: startup chat I have a skillset that apparently makes me attractive to a lot of nanotech and bioengineering startups. I worked at one such company with people I knew and was close to near the end of my undergrad and hooo boy capitalism is a gently caress. Even worse, it's someone else's get-rich-quick scheme. The idea was shaky at best and, despite suspecting this, I still pursued it for garbage wages and research experience. It yielded a "presented to non-technical audiences including C-level executives" line on my resume. I mean they had PhDs but they were clearly worthless in this new context. I learned a lot about dealing with people and sniffing out bullshit that year. I also learned that my pessimism was a reflection of reality -- 95% + companies talking about graphene, nanotubes, nano needles, are bullshit vaporware that will never come to fruition. My startup checklist: only if it's mine and a form of early retirement.
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Cynicism is a great substitute for experience
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qhat posted:Cynicism is a great substitute for experience Experience is knowledge plus cynicism.
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I gave up on waiting for a response to my direct InMail to this company's recruiters and submitted my resume via the standard route on their website. I not sure contacting the recruiters directly actually works better unless you're highly specific or your profile alone is enough to blow every other shitheel doing the same as you clear out of the water. Fingers crossed.
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