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feedmegin posted:Definitely 'eventually'. We arent welcome in America right now. Might give them the 'rona or something. I meant eventually as in next time I'm looking for work. So in about 3 years at most, maybe less. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 00:40 on May 14, 2020 |
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getting paid around 30% less in wellington than i was getting in the bay area, but life is way better and we're living like kings as dual income programmers. for example, using the proceeds from selling the shithole in la honda, we just bought a 2br apartment in the middle of the city with views all around, plus cash left over that we're thinking of using to buy a few hectares an hour out of town within biking distance of a train station but it does seem like if you wanna really get paid, the strategy here is to work for places that hire remote. so far i know people here who are working remote for github, ubuntu, and apple so there seem to be plenty of options if you're good at codin
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page 1The Management posted:drat, London devs are getting owned big time
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Progressive JPEG posted:page 1 drat
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DELETE CASCADE posted:what's your ocaml question for ocaml jobs not ocaml questiosn
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May 14, 2020 01:48
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PCjr sidecar posted:some folks would probably take a significantly lower salary for a competent government but that’s definitely not the uk lol this is why I laugh when british cop shows have a detective living in a brand new 2 story condo
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May 14, 2020 17:26
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is london like vancouver in being a preferred vacation destination and wealth parking place for money launderers?
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May 14, 2020 17:32
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No, London has an economy that's not based around house trading.
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May 14, 2020 18:04
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sports posted:for ocaml jobs not ocaml questiosn well, you could work for facebook, or you could work for jane street, or you could work for bloomberg, or you could go gently caress yourself. sound about right? i actually programmed professionally in ocaml at two different companies. one of them doesn't use ocaml anymore and the other doesn't exist anymore. at this point i gave up on an ocaml-based career. there are vanishingly few jobs. if you can get a few like-minded folks together, you can do a startup... and all the stuff with fb's "reason" is raising ocaml's profile as a serious language, but still you'd probably have an easier time immigrating to france than finding an ocaml job outside of france
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qirex posted:yeah, london combines the incompetent fascist government with a cost of living about the same as san francisco/nyc while senior tech positions pay like 40-60k pounds
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an old coworker is trying to poach me and i'm curious whether his minnesota finance company is going to try to compete with my current nyc tech figgies (no way i'm moving)sports posted:for ocaml jobs not ocaml questiosn er, maybe try to find an f# shop? not that that's easy either and i don't actually know how similar they are in practice
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raminasi posted:an old coworker is trying to poach me and i'm curious whether his minnesota finance company is going to try to compete with my current nyc tech figgies (no way i'm moving) update: idk how this will end up but it's really nice to start tasting the career stage where job interviews consist of director-level hiring managers reaching out to say "based on my past experience working with you you'd be great for this position i just created"
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a bit unrelated but I did find it funny when the aforementioned multinational didn't even bother having someone local talk to me first and I'm having only calls with hiring managers and engineers in the US which also makes me a bit nervous since I'm definitely not that experienced yet, but apparently they don't have a firmware team locally yet and I'd have a senior position in it Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 02:37
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Just had a phone interview with a company that saw my 1.5 years of development experience and thought I would be a fit for a senior software engineer. It went well and they're moving me on to step two. Keep your fingers crossed for me because this would nearly double the ol salary
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Asleep Style posted:Just had a phone interview with a company that saw my 1.5 years of development experience and thought I would be a fit for a senior software engineer. It went well and they're moving me on to step two. Keep your fingers crossed for me because this would nearly double the ol salary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oLqMwzvBY
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a recruiter reached out to me for a much better job in the middle of this pandemic. i wasn't even really looking but i thought i'd hear him out. turns out computer touching is a good place to be when nobody can go anywhere. this is the first time i get to start from a strong position in a job interview and that's thanks to this thread. i would never have thought to interview when i was happy with my job before
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greps of wrath posted:a recruiter reached out to me for a much better job in the middle of this pandemic. i wasn't even really looking but i thought i'd hear him out. turns out computer touching is a good place to be when nobody can go anywhere. this is the first time i get to start from a strong position in a job interview and that's thanks to this thread. i would never have thought to interview when i was happy with my job before excellent. try “well, i like my current role, so it would really have to be something special for me to leave”
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a boss i had 10+ years ago reached out yesterday to offer me to do a pretty neat little research software project for them. very timely (tiny money, but i had nothing much going on, and it does seem really cool), and once again demonstrates the value of maintaining your past professional contacts a bit.
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raminasi posted:an old coworker is trying to poach me and i'm curious whether his minnesota finance company is going to try to compete with my current nyc tech figgies (no way i'm moving) if they're even sorta competitive I already like living here
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Munkeymon posted:if they're even sorta competitive I already like living here turns out they have a nyc office anyway so i wouldn’t have to move
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i thought some basic ops knowledge would look good on a cv but in retrospect now people think i can't program? maybe i should tone it down a bit
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job hunting quantum physics: every company is looking for someone with either a wider or more specialized skill set than you present but you can’t know which one until the waveform collapses when you get rejected
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suffix posted:i thought some basic ops knowledge would look good on a cv but in retrospect now people think i can't program? if you’re a developer, do not mention anything that would make you sound like an ops person, a build engineer, a tester, a sysadmin, DBA, program manager, or anything else that isn’t developer. not even in passing, unless you want to do these things.
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qirex posted:job hunting quantum physics: every company is looking for someone with either a wider or more specialized skill set than you present but you can’t know which one until the waveform collapses when you get rejected call forums poster bob dobbs is dead
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whole point of my thingy is that it does xorsat instead of wavefunction collapse so you just gotta satisfy hr. maybe involves lying
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The Management posted:if you’re a developer, do not mention anything that would make you sound like an ops person, a build engineer, a tester, a sysadmin, DBA, program manager, or anything else that isn’t developer. not even in passing, unless you want to do these things. If you're in ops and know development, and the interviewer asks you to create an application that responds to 3 specific URIs and then create the Terraform/Ansible to deploy the application, they're probably just trying to get you to do their job.
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drunk mutt posted:If you're in ops and know development, and the interviewer asks you to create an application that responds to 3 specific URIs and then create the Terraform/Ansible to deploy the application, they're probably just trying to get you to do their job. I don’t know what any of this means. sounds like an ops person, we were looking for a developer, deleted.
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qirex posted:job hunting quantum physics: every company is looking for someone with either a wider or more specialized skill set than you present but you can’t know which one until the waveform collapses when you get rejected
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if you're resume isn't just a list of npm packages you've created sorted by downloads it's going in the trash
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ShadowHawk posted:Look for SRE jobs, maybe even use that language in your resume/cover letters. Or call it "production experience"
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drunk mutt posted:If you're in ops and know development, and the interviewer asks you to create an application that responds to 3 specific URIs and then create the Terraform/Ansible to deploy the application, they're probably just trying to get you to do their job. lol the number of times i've run into exactly this. strange how they each ghosted me after i asked for an assurance it wasn't going to be used in production
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PIZZA.BAT posted:lol the number of times i've run into exactly this. strange how they each ghosted me after i asked for an assurance it wasn't going to be used in production You didn't do the weird stand up and go, "uh, so I think we're done here" thing? I totally did once, it was not well received and I'm pretty sure bridges were burnt. So yea, this actually happened to me and I was totally taken back and mad at the recruiter for putting me into that poo poo.
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lol i got the official job description for the position the hiring manager reached out to me specifically for, and several "requirements" i don't meet always ignore listed job requirements
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May 20, 2020 23:56
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london is a joke don't go to london
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My understanding is that London is even more of an absurd exclusionary playground for the rich and their offspring than NYC is
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3rd party recruiters are incentivized to get people hired at the lowest possible salary, right? I just had a tech screen that went well. The recruiter texted me afterwards and was super pushy about my current base salary, even after I said that based on the responsibilities of the position it wouldn't be worth it to me to switch for less than $number. I guess mostly I'm curious how they structure their business. I assume they're given a target range from the company and when they place someone they get a flat commission plus a fraction of how much lower they get the candidate compared to the target range. Is that roughly correct?
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no, they're incentivized to get butts in seats at any rate, any salary, anything, they get some percentage of the first year salary it's hiring managers that want the salary as low as possible the incentive to get butt in seat means they want you to lower your ask and the hiring manager to raise theirs as fast as possible, and knowing your current base is a great way for them to do that
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Unless it's a contracting or temp company. Then they're incentivized to lower your salary so they can keep the rest of the money they're charging the end company.
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Failed Sega Accessory Ahoy!
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silvergoose posted:they get some percentage of the first year salary note that slimier recruiters will loudly advertise this fact to convince you that they're 100% on your side and hope that you don't understand that their BATNA for a placement is zero dollars. when a third-party recruiter negotiates on your behalf, they are negotiating from a position about as strong as you being unemployed, and every hiring manager who can tie their shoes knows it.
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