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qhat posted:- Sales setting hard deadlines without any consultation because they oversold a product, and then blaming software for not delivering on time. do you not have a product management team or are they the problem?
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qhat posted:Working at my current company has been a real eye opener, in the sense that every possible inefficiency a software firm can have exists. For example: recursive submodules? like a git repo somehow having itself as a sub module?
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qhat posted:... this would make me *very* grumpy do you have access to the ceo? just walk in there and tell them they’re poo poo is garbage
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Feb 23, 2018 17:31
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:this would make me *very* grumpy one (1) crazy hack to be unemployed that housewives absolutely hate
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Pollyanna posted:one (1) crazy hack to be unemployed that housewives absolutely hate qhat is already quitting tho. or am i thinking of someone else?
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qhat posted:using recursive submodules (this is just so inherently dumb it's not worth elaborating on), i didn't even know this was possible hahahaha
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got an offer today for a startup in the area that has an interesting product but ive also reached out to companies nearby that sound pretty cool too but am in the early stages with whats the protocol for this? tell them thank you so much for the offer, but ive got a couple other companies im interested in and can you give me time to speak to them? also what does "with xx%" mean? e.g. "compensation is $XXk with xx%" and how do i know i should negotiate for a higher comp
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Pollyanna posted:got an offer today for a startup in the area that has an interesting product but ive also reached out to companies nearby that sound pretty cool too but am in the early stages with bonus target probably as a startup i bet as a company you won't hit bonus targets feel free to ask, you have nothing to fear by pestering HR - the hiring manager wants you
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Feb 23, 2018 18:19
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DuckConference posted:recursive submodules? like a git repo somehow having itself as a sub module? Not necessarily, it's more about checking out submodules recursively. It's possible to get yourself into a loop and git then proceeds to check out submodules until you run out of disk space.
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hobbesmaster posted:bonus target probably email sent, wish me luckkkkkk
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:this would make me *very* grumpy Yes. Me and my boss have for the past several months been banging on about everything to him and unfortunately it usually falls on deaf ears. To him the company has been doing okay for the past 15 years so no need to change anything.
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Feb 23, 2018 18:45
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hobbesmaster posted:do you not have a product management team or are they the problem? Nope, we don't have that. We have one director guy who sits at the top and very rarely pushes back against sales.
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My job is similar to that, where best practices and safe choices are thrown out the door in favor of speed and corner cuts. It's bad.
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qhat posted:- QA overwhelmed because developers actively refuse to write unit tests, and then QA being blamed as a bottleneck in the release cycle. lol this is my favorite i have worked so many places with this pattern
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tbh i think buck-passing is a time honored tradition almost everywhere
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qhat posted:- QA overwhelmed because developers actively refuse to write unit tests, and then QA being blamed as a bottleneck in the release cycle.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:NVIDIA at 6pm tomorrow and Apple at 5:30pm on Monday
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:lol this is my favorite neighboring team has this issue hell they just now hired a dude to do automatic testing and the specs they give him to test change every two weeks meaning he gets basically nothing meaningful done edit: should have added they don’t tell him the spec is different it just suddenly shifts and the nothing works champagne posting fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 24, 2018 |
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The Leck posted:"but unit tests just slow down development because 1) you have to spend time to write them, then 2) you have to change them when the code behavior changes!" - my (thankfully former) architect and multiple team leads if the behavior keeps changing so often writing tests is a major slowdown rather than a crucial safety net you might just be writing a prototype that's gonna be pushed in production.
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qhat posted:Yes. Me and my boss have for the past several months been banging on about everything to him and unfortunately it usually falls on deaf ears. To him the company has been doing okay for the past 15 years so no need to change anything. Personally I have found that I can not work for a person who is both incompetent and thinks they're not. One job offer I declined mostly because the interview with the CEO convinced me that 1) he has a strong vision and will to execute it but 2) "bitcoin and blockchain are popular so we must try to use them". I think there are poo poo aspects in every company and stuff or procedures that do not work well enough. Because you are immersed in the environment, you are mostly focused on what problems there are in your day to day experience. If everything was smooth sailing all the time, I would become suspicious because there is always a catch - either the poo poo has been externalised/outsourced somehow (i.e. the poo poo could surface out of the blue one day) or the company is busy resting on laurels (see Galapagos syndrome). With that said, I think I'd jump ship as well if the company does not want to adapt industry standard practice, because in the long run it will be more stressful and you will lose out on valuable experience working and using industry standard software development practices. And besides, it should be a huge red flag if reasonable improvements to productivity and process are stonewalled like this.
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MononcQc posted:if the behavior keeps changing so often writing tests is a major slowdown rather than a crucial safety net you might just be writing a prototype that's gonna be pushed in production. Hey if it builds and it works on the few correct cases I put through it then what's the problem
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Penisface posted:Personally I have found that I can not work for a person who is both incompetent and thinks they're not. One job offer I declined mostly because the interview with the CEO convinced me that 1) he has a strong vision and will to execute it but 2) "bitcoin and blockchain are popular so we must try to use them". Lold at this because this describes my CEO perfectly. He randomly one day wanted to discuss a blockchain idea of his with me because of course an expert in SQL databases is also an expert in cryptographic ledgers.
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I like most of the questions from that list but this one:quote:- what are the company's primary values? what characteristics are you looking for in a candidate in relation to those primary values? I enjoy my current not-at-Amazon job but don't remember what's on the list of company values (I know there's an official list); if I was asked by a candidate today I'd say 'uhhhhhhhhhh.' I don't think that should be a red flag to candidates. I still get to build useful stuff, work with people smarter tham myself, and make deece figgies without stress.
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dividertabs posted:I like most of the questions from that list but this one: yeah for any company greater than 50-100 people the implementation of whatever values your company has are going to vary quite a bit team to team. I'd probably ask a list of questions like "What are your team's primary values?" "How much would you say those values are shared with other teams? leadership?" "How often do you ignore those values?"
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MononcQc posted:if the behavior keeps changing so often writing tests is a major slowdown rather than a crucial safety net you might just be writing a prototype that's gonna be pushed in production. prototype to production is our culture, please do not shame
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prisoner of waffles posted:prototype to production is our culture, please do not shame
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prisoner of waffles posted:prototype to production is our culture, please do not shame I wish anyone would ever give me time to prototype in my whole life but my experience so far in my career is that prototype to prod is a result of external pressures from people up or downstream
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cis autodrag posted:I wish anyone would ever give me time to prototype in my whole life but my experience so far in my career is that prototype to prod is a result of external pressures from people up or downstream prototype to production is the industry norm hth
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yeah people like to poo poo on programmers for being useless and never getting anything right etc etc but ultimately software development fuckups are political, not technological a highly profitable gold rush market like software is gonna see investors demanding that it be piled into as fast as humanly possible, and preferably faster thanks it's amazing that software works as well as it does tbh why don't we build software the way that we build cars and houses gee idk maybe because there isn't a trillion loving dollars chasing 30% yoy returns constantly asking WHY ARENT YOU DONE BUILDING THIS RIGHT THE gently caress NOW in the automotive and construction industries actually wait what am i saying that's exactly the situation with our current real estate hoarding and market cornering bubble so surprise surprise new construction is loving dogshit and everything to do with the regulatory and oversight process is deeply, nakedly corrupt 
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Sapozhnik posted:it's amazing that software works as well as it does tbh There are some modules of our main product where our active priority is to change as absolutely little as possible because any change at all has the potential to break the whole thing in extremely obtuse ways. This is the result of over a decade of bad inexperienced programmers implementing features in the most lazy way possible without any tests and all compounded with heavy unrealistic deadlines. There's a bunch of new features that sales keep asking for but that it would be utterly impossible to implement without completely rewriting the whole thing which I estimate to be about 3-6 months of effort. The CEO, who's not a software guy btw, actively refuses to approve of this though because "refactoring should only be done to speed up an algorithm" lol. qhat fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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Sapozhnik posted:actually wait what am i saying that's exactly the situation with our current real estate hoarding and market cornering bubble so surprise surprise new construction is loving dogshit and everything to do with the regulatory and oversight process is deeply, nakedly corrupt fyi construction has always been bad, worse than now even. but you don't see most of that because it's long gone, and all that's left is the tiny fraction that was done well or that was fixed later on at great expense
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cis autodrag posted:I wish anyone would ever give me time to prototype in my whole life but my experience so far in my career is that prototype to prod is a result of external pressures from people up or downstream the way I try to counter this kind of pressure is by figuring out what the big uncertain stuff I know too little about in the project, and what I feel confident about. The uncertain stuff is what I test in the prototype and take measures for (and probably write tests to even make sure it works). The stuff I'm more confident on, I half-rear end and make sure it's below acceptable when finishing the code. I try to couple that with frequent progress reports so nobody has too bad of a surprise. So the ideal situation once the prototype is done is "we've got this thing that is just not good enough to go in prod, but the good news is we figured out the hard parts and can possibly keep them." Hopefully by then you get the time to extract that critical stuff (or rewrite it) and wrap it up with the rest of the code you should already be more comfortable writing. I'm probably arguing that iterative development shouldn't be done with an end-to-end prototype that then gets improved, but with a uncertain-bits-first approach. If what you're the least certain about is whether customers will even want the product, then 'prototype to prod' may be entirely reasonable as an approach because that's the biggest risk to tackle and figure out at that point, but I think it's usually good to put a fatal flaw in the prototype that prevents it from being possible to make prod-ready without some big reorganization.
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I like it. Your prototype exists to work out and reduce the risk of the most uncertain parts of the production version while containing flaws to make taking the prototype directly into production obviously risky.
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I held an interview where I asked the canidate to do a fizz buzz (lay off I'm new to being the interviewer), and he heard it as "two five". I felt insane wondering if I had actually said those two words as criteria When I tried to clarify, he went "ohh!" And changed the five to "dud" The well known programming interview whiteboard question "TwoDud"
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Not knowing about fizz buzz as a professional software engineer is grounds for immediate removal from the premises.
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Whenever interview questions come up, I use fizz buzz as a reference point that everyone should know. No one knows it. It's been years of interviewing, years of talking with other interviewers about how to get better at it, years of trying to talk to interviewees about interview questions and how stumping people that don't know the modulus operator is stupid but a problem where you can talk through an approach is what I'm interested in- and when asked "Have you heard of the interview question fizz buzz?" no one has ever answered "yes, of course".
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akadajet posted:jizz buzz I like to call it *~jazz~*
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qhat posted:Not knowing about fizz buzz as a professional software engineer is grounds for immediate removal from the premises. there's probably a lot of senior level people who haven't. if you started your career before interviewing became the pile of quiz-show bs that it is now and either stayed at the same place the whole time or are specialized enough that you don't have to play the trivia games that regular people do to be hired it's possible to have never heard of it. i doubt people like carmack, torvalds or raymond chen ever had to care about fizz buzz. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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