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anyone try those practice interview sites? i booked a couple interviews at the free ones (triplebyte, interviewing.io, pramp) for next week
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i have a triplebyte interview coming up. only thing i've read was from a few years ago and people were complaining that the interviewers were dicks, but i dont know how current that is.
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Sep 5, 2018 20:01
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i have a triplebyte interview coming up. only thing i've read was from a few years ago and people were complaining that the interviewers were dicks, but i dont know how current that is. they were huge dicks to me. I had a fully working connect 4 game in 15 minutes but I accidentally had it printing the board upside down. time came up while I was in the middle of fixing it and he cut me off, said he saw all he needed and we didn't need to do any of the other questions and I got a rejection email an hour later. they were huge assholes about lack of a Webcam too
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Sep 5, 2018 20:36
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jit bull transpile posted:they were huge dicks to me. I had a fully working connect 4 game in 15 minutes but I accidentally had it printing the board upside down. time came up while I was in the middle of fixing it and he cut me off, said he saw all he needed and we didn't need to do any of the other questions and I got a rejection email an hour later. welp
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Sep 5, 2018 20:37
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Turns out I didn't flunk the interview and they've invited me for a full loop at their HQ in Seattle. Let's see how this goes.
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Sep 5, 2018 20:39
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I had an excellent experience with triple byte but I may be an outlier idk
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Sep 5, 2018 21:45
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prisoner of waffles posted:new thread idea: "We Are The Walrus: ambienposting ONLY! (~~DON'T DOX YOURSELF YOSPOS GHOST~~~)"
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Sep 6, 2018 00:35
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You can always tell when I'm ambienposting because it makes sense and may actually contain useful information.
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Sep 6, 2018 03:05
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qhat posted:Turns out I didn't flunk the interview and they've invited me for a full loop at their HQ in Seattle. Let's see how this goes.
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Sep 6, 2018 03:15
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Gazpacho posted:is this Amazon? if it's a job developing online systems, ask how often pager duty is required & how many times the team has been paged in the last month No but they tenuously compete with them and are much smaller.
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Sep 6, 2018 03:32
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Peeny Cheez posted:You can always tell when I'm ambienposting because it makes sense and may actually contain useful information. awfully roundabout way to say you've never taken ambien
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Sep 6, 2018 03:38
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qhat posted:No but they tenuously compete with them and are much smaller. so microsoft, then?
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Sep 6, 2018 05:02
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Fiedler posted:so microsoft, then? I wish.
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Sep 6, 2018 05:34
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qhat posted:I wish. dreamhost
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Rex-Goliath posted:awfully roundabout way to say you've never taken ambien
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Sep 6, 2018 05:40
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jit bull transpile posted:dreamhost
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Sep 6, 2018 05:44
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qhat posted:I wish. i suspect there'll be some positions opening up real soon in azure storage
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Sep 6, 2018 05:49
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It's all expenses paid including gas and I get to hangout with some friends I have in Seattle for a couple of days, so it's a good result whether I get the job or not.
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Sep 6, 2018 05:50
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Fiedler posted:i suspect there'll be some positions opening up real soon in azure storage There already are.
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Sep 6, 2018 05:51
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qhat posted:Turns out I didn't flunk the interview and they've invited me for a full loop at their HQ in Seattle. Let's see how this goes. you probably didn't flunk as hard as you thought and they like your qualifications better than your binary tree serialization skills 
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Sep 6, 2018 11:07
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accepted an offer at a medium sized edtech company after some minor negotiation. ended up with +25% over current figgies plus better benefits. very down-to-earth feeling, it's a pretty uncomplicated product and they don't do any grandstanding about ~d i s r u p t i o n~. also very good feeling about the team and the development process, no "move fast and break things" poo poo. the last three months of job searching and interviewing has sucked so much rear end and has had me on the edge of a nervous breakdown several times. i'm so glad to have it done. fuckkkk this poo poo. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 14:36
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TheFluff posted:accepted an offer at a medium sized edtech company after some minor negotiation. ended up with +25% over current figgies plus better benefits. very down-to-earth feeling, it's a pretty uncomplicated product and they don't do any grandstanding about ~d i s r u p t i o n~. also very good feeling about the team and the development process, no "move fast and break things" poo poo. working with adults that treat you like an adult is real good, yeah
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Sep 6, 2018 15:12
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TheFluff posted:accepted an offer at a medium sized edtech company after some minor negotiation. ended up with +25% over current figgies plus better benefits. very down-to-earth feeling, it's a pretty uncomplicated product and they don't do any grandstanding about ~d i s r u p t i o n~. also very good feeling about the team and the development process, no "move fast and break things" poo poo. Good job. Upgrade thy vehicle.
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Sep 6, 2018 18:29
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i got a email from a robert half recruiter about a position that look interesting. i kinda hate robert half, should i just end-around and apply directly?
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Sep 6, 2018 19:40
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yeah absolutely, gently caress recruiters
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Sep 6, 2018 19:42
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Robert half is garbage and if you know what the position is you should apply directly.
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Sep 6, 2018 20:17
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Always apply directly if they let slip the company name. Always. Because gently caress those clowns.
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Sep 6, 2018 20:34
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ha, the startup with the really involved interview process advanced me to step #2. I thought I didn't do that great, so that's kind of cool. more practice for the jobs i care more about getting i also have technical onsite and phone interviews coming up at several big-name tech companies and i don't wanna gently caress them up since they make you wait a year to interview again if you fail. i have the real fear that i will self-own into eternal unemployment.
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Sep 6, 2018 20:51
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Peeny Cheez posted:Always apply directly if they let slip the company name. Always. Because gently caress those clowns. Even if they don't (which they won't, for this reason) sometimes you can figure out what the company is with a bit of careful Googling. Then, yeah, def apply direct and score that extra salary that would otherwise be going to their commission.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:07
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qhat posted:Robert half is garbage and if you know what the position is you should apply directly. i got my current job through robert half, weird seeing that name here because I thought it was just some weird "western sounding" company here in japan, instead of a multinational. their recruiter absolutely sucked at salary negotiations as well, but the job itself is ok so far i am going to have some frank discussions about the salary soon though seeing as my 6 month trial period (welcome to japan) is finished and i now feel more confident that if there is no better deal i can walk away and not have it seem like a red flag in any future interview process
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Sep 7, 2018 12:06
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Robert Half is loving terrible and no one should work with them. There are plenty of good external recruiting companies, where the recruiter does add some value to the process and treats you like a human being instead of forcing you into a job you don't want. They will also buy you lunches.
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Sep 7, 2018 13:32
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EVGA Longoria posted:Robert Half is loving terrible and no one should work with them. Agree with the "gently caress RHT" sentiment. Even Teksystems was better than those assholes. Around here RHT places for the same jobs as Teksystems but makes you waste your goddamn time with skills assessments and their pre-representation agreement asks you to enter your SSN (as in, full-9).  It's like, no: you're not running a credit check on me for the privelage of submitting my loving resume and taking 10% off the top. gently caress off.
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Sep 7, 2018 13:35
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last recruiter never bought me the lunch he promised so gently caress Recruiters Forever oh he also called me up 6 months after I started here, presumably the day his commission cheque cleared
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Sep 7, 2018 14:56
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I still have these assholes calling me up in the middle of the day without notice asking if I need a job. One of them tried calling multiple times while I was in a meeting, so I took it only to realise it was just a stupid recruiter from TS. I told them to gently caress off and remove me from their systems, which I'm not entirely sure they did.
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Sep 7, 2018 16:15
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qhat posted:I still have these assholes calling me up in the middle of the day without notice asking if I need a job. One of them tried calling multiple times while I was in a meeting, so I took it only to realise it was just a stupid recruiter from TS. I told them to gently caress off and remove me from their systems, which I'm not entirely sure they did. You know the answer to this
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Sep 7, 2018 16:19
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low rate recruiters will often just copy the original company's job posting wholesale so you can usually find the original listing by just googling a few snippets ive found 3rd party recruiters to be pretty useful in terms of lining up interviews, sometimes even at places that arent posting publicly for some bizarre reason, but their quality can vary a lot and id rather just talk to the companies directly honestly
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I got a job through Robert half and the recruiter bought me a total of 3 lunch's throughout our working relationship
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Progressive JPEG posted:low rate recruiters will often just copy the original company's job posting wholesale so you can usually find the original listing by just googling a few snippets last recruiter mail came to my work address, and had the company name in the body text peak lazy, can't even search and replace
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Sep 7, 2018 22:47
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yeah but dont you think the recruiting company might have a clause in their contract saying they will still get their commission even if the candidate ends up going directly to the company? if they have a contract of course
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Penisface posted:yeah but dont you think the recruiting company might have a clause in their contract saying they will still get their commission even if the candidate ends up going directly to the company? How would they know, if the company is also advertising directly? If the recruiting company somehow has an exclusive contract then you're boned anyway.
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