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Jul 10, 2020 01:57
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New thread title please.
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Jul 10, 2020 02:07
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I posted this in Cavern of COBOL, but this is a good place to ask as well. Because of COVID my job is now 100% remote. It's an easy gig, so I think I can handle a side hustle. Does anyone know a good listing of part time remote development jobs? What about full time?
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Jul 10, 2020 13:02
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Jul 10, 2020 14:03
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Ither posted:I posted this in Cavern of COBOL, but this is a good place to ask as well. stable part time doesn't really exist, or at least it doesn't through traditional avenues. if you don't already know where to find work, go on upwork, set your rates high so you're not competing with the chaff, and work on projects here and there while you build up a network of ppl who regularly spend money on software. when you can, move off of it as quickly as possible because they take 10% from your cut. upwork is like 99.5% bullshit but every now and then you can find reasonable contracts on there from people who understand how quickly underbidding will tank their project.
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Jul 10, 2020 23:15
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amazon does have a flex work thing where you can work like 30 hours a week at a reduced salary. I'm not sure if other big companies do this. you will get sued to oblivion (i mean, probably just fired) if you try to do this while holding down another fulltime job.
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Jul 10, 2020 23:25
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yeah your employment contract almost definitely has multiple different clauses trying to keep you from doing this. you might not care but make sure you understand the risks. you could get fired, you could get sued, you could have your main employer claim that they own all the work you do during normal business hours.
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Jul 10, 2020 23:35
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https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830
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Jul 12, 2020 17:11
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this one in the comments has powerful lmao gently caress you energy too https://twitter.com/JensRavens/status/1282078009017720838 Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 19:26
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just saw this one on SO careers:quote:We are looking for someone who that's, uhh, a curious definition of "junior" they've got going on there Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Jul 13, 2020 16:48
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Private Speech posted:just saw this one on SO careers: senior experience, junior remuneration
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Jul 13, 2020 16:55
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > YOSPOS > interviewing: senior experience, junior remuneration
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Jul 13, 2020 16:56
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GenJoe posted:if you don't already know where to find work, go on upwork Any recommendations for finding clients outside of upwork? I tried the platform, but after finishing work to my clients' satisfaction and getting paid, a few clients didn't end their contracts so i closed them after several months. Apparently as a freelancer, ending a contract on upwork is bad™, and they penalize you for it. Now I have a 30% job success score despite having a dozen 5 star ratings from completed projects, and landing new projects on the platform is a non-starter. I like freelancing on the side, but I don't like feeling like living out a black mirror episode to do it. Last couple of clients I worked with I found on indeed, but that's another platform that has a low signal to noise ratio.
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Jul 13, 2020 18:53
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show up in person to things and shake hands not gonna work right precisely now but its why figgielands exist
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Jul 13, 2020 19:02
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Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skillsquote:A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding. The interviews may also be used to exclude groups or favor specific job candidates.
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Jul 16, 2020 01:41
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hot drat:quote:For example, in our study, all of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed. Our study was limited, and a larger sample size would be needed to draw firm conclusions, but the idea that the very design of the interview process may effectively exclude an entire class of job candidates is troubling.”
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Jul 16, 2020 02:35
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quote:The interviews may also be used to exclude groups or favor specific job candidates. I think they just discovered America 
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Jul 16, 2020 13:41
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experience requirements are lies to dissuade cowards
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Jul 16, 2020 13:58
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:experience requirements are lies to dissuade cowards and also to whammy under represented folks well documented that experience and degree requirements get a lot stricter depending on who’s applying
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Jul 16, 2020 14:10
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today i got rejected from datadog after spending nearly enough 10 hours on a take home assignment. recruiter told me this was because my work failed to meet two requirements. my program did in fact meet the first requirement, and the second was never given in the instructions. pretty lame.
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Jul 17, 2020 00:23
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today i got rejected from datadog after spending nearly enough 10 hours on a take home assignment. recruiter told me this was because my work failed to meet two requirements. my program did in fact meet the first requirement, and the second was never given in the instructions. pretty lame.
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Jul 17, 2020 00:24
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did you forget a unique constraint?
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Jul 17, 2020 00:26
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lol
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Jul 17, 2020 00:31
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more like datadong imho
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Jul 17, 2020 00:32
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Kind Friend posted:today i got rejected from datadog after spending nearly enough 10 hours on a take home assignment. recruiter told me this was because my work failed to meet two requirements. my program did in fact meet the first requirement, and the second was never given in the instructions. what were the requirements?
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Jul 17, 2020 00:33
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PCjr sidecar posted:did you forget a unique constraint? lmao
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Jul 17, 2020 00:37
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PCjr sidecar posted:did you forget a unique constraint? lol
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Jul 17, 2020 01:28
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that sucks though, dude. interviewing is garbage. i'm working on a take home assignment too and i'm concerned the same thing is about to happen to me
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Jul 17, 2020 01:28
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PCjr sidecar posted:did you forget a unique constraint? raminasi posted:what were the requirements? 1. the instructions asked for an aspect of the program to be configurable. i did this via a constant variable at the top of the file. i noted this inline and in the README, and also made a TODO stating that in a production setting it should be set via a command line arg. i thought that for the purposes of a demo project the simplicity of a hardcoded variable would be preferable to adding argparse logic as long as i made a note of it. obviously they disagreed or didnt bother to read my comments/documentation. the instructions did not specify how the variable should be configurable. 2. they complained my test coverage was inadequate. the instructions stated to add a unit test for one specific part of the program. i did so. the instructions did not ask for "thorough test coverage" or "at least n% coverage."
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Jul 17, 2020 01:56
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PIZZA.BAT posted:that sucks though, dude. interviewing is garbage. i'm working on a take home assignment too and i'm concerned the same thing is about to happen to me my advice: do not assume that meeting the stated requirements is sufficient. instead, assume you will be judged relative to the perceived quality of other submissions in your pool.
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Jul 17, 2020 01:57
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one time i got a take-home that was clearly designed to test my ability to find some particular lock-juggling solution. (it may have been some standard algorithm, i don't know.) i couldn't reason out the solution they were looking for but i was able to come up with something that seemed right to me using atomics and concurrent standard library collections that passed their provided test suite. naturally, they didn't accept it. for extra credit: is it better or worse to write a comment to the effect of "your instructions have a lot of rules about locking, making me suspect that you want a solution with locks in it, but i couldn't figure one out so i did this instead, which is what i would have done in real code anyway"
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Jul 17, 2020 04:27
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raminasi posted:one time i got a take-home that was clearly designed to test my ability to find some particular lock-juggling solution. (it may have been some standard algorithm, i don't know.) i couldn't reason out the solution they were looking for but i was able to come up with something that seemed right to me using atomics and concurrent standard library collections that passed their provided test suite. naturally, they didn't accept it. It's worse as you're going to be rejected if you're correct, but now if you're wrong they might reject you for writing a dumb comment. If you think they are looking for a specific solution that you don't know how to implement I would recommend stopping and not wasting your time implementing a solution they will reject.
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Jul 17, 2020 04:41
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had a second interview with a fascinating company today. had to prepare a presentation showing off my projects that was supposed to last 25 minutes but actually took about an hour because they asked their questions during the presentation. they are looking for a pretty senior person and i only have 7 years of professional experience (if you don't count the 7 years i did before my studies as a freelancer), but i played the "my youth and broad range of skills is an advantage" card my recruiter told me before the interview that his last successfully hired candidate went through the same process and mentioned that it was "tough". i, surprisingly, did not get any "programming interview" questions. like, none at all. i asked my possible future boss if there was any reason for that, and he said "there's a probation period for that anyways, if you lied on your CV we'll know soon enough, besides, from your presentation we were able to assess your skills well enough" although that's exactly the kind of company i want to work for (reminder that a few months ago i got asked very specific c++ questions and hated it), i cant quite put my finger on wether this is good or bad. on one hand I'm worried it means that they assessed that there was no point in asking me technical questions since i'm not a match, but on the other, it could be exactly the opposite? what do you guys think?
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Jul 17, 2020 14:37
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they might not be entirely loving idiots when it comes to interviewing compared to every other company out there, and they’re using the probation period as they should. sounds like a positive point to me. if they showed like zero interest in assessing you outside of that though, that’s a red flag because who knows what kind of toxic people they amass on board.
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Jul 17, 2020 15:24
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MononcQc posted:they might not be entirely loving idiots when it comes to interviewing compared to every other company out there, and they’re using the probation period as they should. my current company did the same thing and, well to be fair it's a trash fire by many standards, but probably for other reasons like doing active development on a codebase which has never-rewritten >40 years old code if they are halfway competent everyone who's outright terrible was probably let go within a few weeks
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Jul 17, 2020 15:47
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oh boy, well the company I’m working for missed a paycheck. Time to start hitting that “search jobs” button. Imposter syndrome is high because I’ve been doing this for about 10 years but my resume looks like 2 years, 2 years, 1 year, 2 years, 2 years. Do companies care about job hopping like that?
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Jul 17, 2020 19:58
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that looks like a normal career in tech tbh
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Jul 17, 2020 20:04
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Rudest Buddhist posted:oh boy, well the company I’m working for missed a paycheck. Time to start hitting that “search jobs” button. If you've made it to 2 years you've made it longer than I've ever made it at a job. People will tell you that it matters but as a hiring manager currently I can tell you I don't give a poo poo -- the only things that are potentially red flags are a bunch of < 6 months jobs or a bunch of years at the same company with no advancement in responsibility.
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