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ratbert90 posted:drat, I would love for that. I would just do contract work while collecting my pay from IBM. double paycheck. it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself
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the talent deficit posted:it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself Oh, yeah, that would be terrible!
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mekkanare posted:Having nothing to do is not fun at all.
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the talent deficit posted:it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself Did your director actually do anything within the company?
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the talent deficit posted:it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself this describes me a lil too well
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the talent deficit posted:it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself consulting.txt
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imo if they give you a computer and access to the internet with no concrete goals of what to do then you could just spend all day writing whatever code you wanted to write. do some open source stuff or whatever took your fancy. write your own fart app, whatever amuses you/ however the only time I've ever heard someone get the arrangement of 'we will pay you, but you're not allowed to work' was someone who had been hired at Defence, and they literally wanted him to show up at work everyday where he wasn't given a computer or allowed to use a phone and sit there for 8 months while they did his security clearance. He quit after two months and three passed certifications. edit; also I've seen people get stuck in jobs without goals all the time but it's never a "do what you want" situation it's more like "do what we want - we just aint gonna tell you what the heck that is"
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the talent deficit posted:it was awful. i still had a director and was expected to accomplish things, it was just that i had to do all the work to figure out what and how myself
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I had a couple of friends that worked for IBM. One of them told me about how they setup a minigolf course on their floor and would play on it daily with his coworkers. The other one would just play MTG all day on his computer.
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i've worked with ibm consultants several times (they managed the server infrastructure at a company i worked for ~2014) and i had to script releases so specifically i might as well have been doing all of it myself and they would call me 3 hours before the release outage window asking if they could start that said i'm sure we were paying absolute bottom of the barrel rates and weren't exactly getting their a-team
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Cold on a Cob posted:i've worked with ibm consultants several times (they managed the server infrastructure at a company i worked for ~2014) and i had to script releases so specifically i might as well have been doing all of it myself and they would call me 3 hours before the release outage window asking if they could start joke's on you, there was no a team
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Cold on a Cob posted:that said i'm sure we were paying absolute bottom of the barrel rates and weren't exactly getting their a-team Ohhhh "A-Team" we thought you said "A team"
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If you use ibm for general consulting then surely you have brought shame upon your house, but there must be SOME divisions inside ibm that have actual technical expertise regarding their mainframe infrastructure
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Another phone interview survived. Think it actually went well this time, which is either a red flag or a sign of improvement, not sure which Second time using something like "so what happens when your team misses a deadline" question myself. it's sort of enlightening how that changes the conversation--both times to the better, like i actually built rapport, rather than deconstructing it with the implied mild insult Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:joke's on you, there was no team at all
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ibm has some hpc products at the high end and in storage not ‘buy red hat’ money though endless bureaucracy and you’re likely to be cut the next time they need to goose the stock price
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I finally have an in-person interview next week for a NOC Jock role just north of my suburb.
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interview today went well. we did a chess problem and I've made a chess game so it was pretty much comfortable territory. vibed well with interviewer.
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got scheduled this morning for final interview next week remote interview over hangouts too, hopefully being more comfortable at home helps me be less nervy
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Ciaphas posted:got scheduled this morning for final interview next week remote interview over hangouts too, hopefully being more comfortable at home helps me be less nervy make sure to set up your surroundings so that your bong or other potential embarrassing stuff does not show up in the frame - plain wall in a well lighted room should do it
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Penisface posted:make sure to set up your surroundings so that your bong or other potential embarrassing stuff does not show up in the frame - plain wall in a well lighted room should do it wait, poo poo
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gently caress it, light up during the interview
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Penisface posted:make sure to set up your surroundings so that your bong or other potential embarrassing stuff does not show up in the frame - plain wall in a well lighted room should do it bare walls creep me out
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I have those wall mount style guitar hooks but for bongs instead of guitars
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AWWNAW posted:bare walls creep me out i think it is professional courtesy not to sensory overload potential bosses/coworkers with the contents of my apartment. even if you have a bookshelf full of TAOCP and ancient unix manuals or whatever you think might impress the person you are talking with. just play it safe, dont take a chance that someone might see all the piss jugs if you get interrupted by some delivery guy during the interview* and you have to rush to the door, leaving your future boss make a mental inventory of what the gently caress * true story, i was in the middle of a online coding test/interview and the bell rang so i apologised and went to the door
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Whatever they don't need to see, don't let them see.
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AWWNAW posted:bare walls creep me out you're supposed to let interviewers hit the back walls
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I'm coming up on my 1 year at my first job out of grad school. I took a different job title and negotiated it into a data science position, though I don't have the title (I'm "senior data analyst"). I was a bit uneasy transitioning from the PhD into industry, but now I feel way more confident. I'm still learning things too, which is the most important thing to me at this particular juncture. I also feel underpaid. Going from stipend to 90k base salary without having to move was great at first. Its definitely adequate, and I don't mean to sound greedy, but I don't like the idea of leaving money on the table. I've since read the 2018 DS Burtchworks study, and saw an IEEE salary publication, and I feel like I could be making more (~110 to 140k for midwest). My manager wants me to lead and develop the analytics team, but I'm beginning to feel like this is unlikely to happen at this point. I'd be interested in actually developing teams like that, but this environment is ancient in terms of both tech and people. I've found many of the managers hesitant to make any real changes. Much of their work isn't setup in a way that is conducive to any sort of nice analytics approach. Data is a mess, people don't know where much of it even is, and so on. On the other hand they gave me my own office. They are apparently stingy about that so I initially took it as a good sign. The office had been vacant for years, and the one next to mine still is. In my review my manager said he wanted me to have a quicker turnaround, get to failure faster, etc. After two weeks of working on this particular project I had strong confidence that it would never work out, and was foolhardy. But he's the one constantly asking me to "see what if". So that's been awkward. I asked him about a job title change as a way of eluding to a future conversation about compensation and he said he'd look into it. Otherwise we have a good relationship. I'm waiting to see what salary adjustments come in next, but in the meantime I'm looking at my options. For the time being, I'm geographically locked. I recently received an invitation to speak with some C level people at another midwestern company that does work that I think may be more interesting. I'm going to see whats up at least to build some network (I have little in industry as I originally intended to go the postdoc route). Any thoughts? I read that Chapman salary negotiating book recommended in this thread and started kicking myself over the first interview. The salary range was "fixed" and he gave me the maximum, but looking back I bet I could have squeezed a sign on bonus or more vacation out of the deal.
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Don't worry about screwing up at the beginning, you'll have plenty of opportunities in life to reassert your salary expectations either through promotions or completely new jobs. I switched jobs recently, I got my old job when I was new in Canada and unemployed and had no choice but to get chiselled hard by the CEO. 18 months later and I'm at a new company with 67% more compensation and p.happy. Secondly, if your manager wants you to take on any significantly additional responsibility beyond what you were hired to do initially, demand a new compensation package (not just a raise). Moving into management is a big jump and you owe it to yourself to put these guys in a vice. If they won't budge, imo you could do what I did and still take the role as a way of increasing your negotiating leverage at another company.
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qhat posted:Don't worry about screwing up at the beginning, you'll have plenty of opportunities in life to reassert your salary expectations either through promotions or completely new jobs. I switched jobs recently, I got my old job when I was new in Canada and unemployed and had no choice but to get chiselled hard by the CEO. 18 months later and I'm at a new company with 67% more compensation and p.happy. Agreeing with all this. Definitely put your best title on your resume, even if you weren't compensated appropriately.
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flubbed a second phone screen w/ one place, got take home at another, sands thru the hourglass etc
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florida lan posted:gently caress it, light up during the interview apocryphally, the rap genius founders used to light up a joint and pass it around the room to see if their interview candidate was "cool" or not
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onsite in 15m, feels like I’m walking to my grave why do I care so much about this
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raminasi posted:onsite in 15m, feels like I’m walking to my grave You got this, just be confident in what you know and about your accomplishments. If its not a good fit, its not a good fit.
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raminasi posted:onsite in 15m, feels like I’m walking to my grave I think the best lesson that I learned from interviewing at a bunch of places over my career is to not take it personally. I've passed interviews and gotten good offers, but I also have trail of embarrassing failures as well. If you're not a good fit then it's for the best, or its your unlucky day and the interviewer asked you the one question you didn't know. Move on and continue playing the numbers game.
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Had a phonecall with an internal interviewer that ended in those questions that determine if the actual hiring manager will look at your resume. The questions asked were open ended and also worded terribly so I had no idea what the gently caress was going on. Here's an example. "What method would you override to find the root view controller?" There is no method overriding required for this. The answer is UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController. I said "I wouldn't override anything I would use this to find it" She tells me that's wrong and asks if I've ever heard of loadView. Which I explained is what you would do if you were creating a navigation UI programmatically to set something as the root, but of course that doesn't mean poo poo and I won't get a call. What am I even supposed to do there?
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be polite
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Progressive JPEG posted:be polite I was definitely polite, but also trying to express like hey I'm not an idiot please just get me a technical.
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KidDynamite posted:What am I even supposed to do there? can u expand what you mean here "how do i get past a garbage hardcoded screen?" you figure out their game and dumb down your answers, get your resume to someone inside beyond the filter, or stop caring and move on numbers-game style you're not going to have this teachable moment where you explain why the crude filter sucks and is bad fit for purpose, the person giving it likely doesn't care that much even if you broke out of the script
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I hate to ask what may be a simplistic question, but is there like a glossary of terms describing the various roles and components of an IT 'department' of an organization? I went from academia to data science in industry and I'm getting a feel for many of the relevant bits, but then I look at job listings at, e.g., Splunk, and I get the sense that simply understanding this might make me better at developing my current role.
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