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current interview status: im scheduled to interview someone tomorrow with a 5 page resume for a 4 year career
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Oct 11, 2021 20:30
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sounds like a real go getter
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Oct 11, 2021 20:32
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Asleep Style posted:current interview status: im scheduled to interview someone tomorrow with a 5 page resume for a 4 year career is this an eurocv for a publicly funded position, or are you wasting your time
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Oct 11, 2021 20:48
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I am wasting my time
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Oct 11, 2021 20:57
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Asleep Style posted:current interview status: im scheduled to interview someone tomorrow with a 5 page resume for a 4 year career for a while i was getting really frustrated with the insane long resumes I was getting but apparently linkedin has a resume-generator that they run off your profile and hr was just giving me those instead of the candidate's actual resumes
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Oct 11, 2021 20:58
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PIZZA.BAT posted:for a while i was getting really frustrated with the insane long resumes I was getting but apparently linkedin has a resume-generator that they run off your profile and hr was just giving me those instead of the candidate's actual resumes this is probably it, apparently we've been getting a lot of resumes like this for open positions. good to know
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Oct 11, 2021 21:18
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I had a team match interview for a company I really liked it was strange. manager said a lot of good things about mentorship, and empathy, support, work-life balance, shielding employees from upper management, etc. but i got a weird self-promotional vibe and he mostly talked about himself and would kind of ignore my attempts to build connection. didn't really laugh or acknowledge any of my jokes, but grinned at his own. It sort of felt like he always had to have the last word on everything or correct me. like when I used the YOSPOS-approved question about "What's the hardest thing about the job?" he talked about his own job. not sure how much of a deal breaker all that should be. obviously not ideal, but it would be a great step up from my current dead-end role. it does feel like options are closing because my current role is so limited i have very little to talk about in interviews. I could try to hold out for another team to talk to, but my recruiter has hard a hard time finding teams who are actually willing to hire remote people, despite officially being remotely friendly. 0) Ask if I could have a follow-up interview with a potential teammate? Is there a good way of sussing out whether a manager is good from someone who's not incentivized to be honest with you if they're not? 1) Roll the dice, I could always try to transfer in a year or use the experience to hop elsewhere. stack those figgies in the meantime 2) attempt for another team match and hope it's better cheque_some fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 04:30
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Do 0. It's pretty unlikely that they directly lie to you and at worst they'll probably be cagey or answer generically which gives you the information you need. Don't ask generically if the manager sucks. Ask specific questions on the points that matter to you. What's your day like? When do you come in or leave? When was your last vacation? Etc
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Oct 12, 2021 08:37
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cheque_some posted:
tell me you don't think of your workers as people without telling me you don't think of your workers as people
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Oct 12, 2021 08:49
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looking back the good bosses I had always set up an interview with peers and explicitly told me to ask about the their (the bosses) performance
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Oct 12, 2021 10:04
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cheque_some posted:I had a team match interview for a company I really liked tbh honest it sounds like this guy legit sucks and working for him will suck and is still plausibly the best career decision for you right now as long as you think you have the emotional reserves to gut it out for a year
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Oct 12, 2021 13:03
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I've never had a manager's self importance be a crucial factor in liking working for them except when they needed everyone to like them and thus couldn't hold people accountable. I've had managers who were very team focused and some who were really there for their own career but they were effective at their job so I didn't care. Might've gotten lucky though. Honestly my biggest issues with managers has always been their ability to manage expectations and create accountability up and down.
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Oct 12, 2021 14:12
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the only truly toxic manager i had was an rear end in a top hat who would throw me under the bus for absolutely anything. a customer is reviewing their expenses and is suddenly asking why this one feature they've been shifting scope on for six months is suddenly too expensive? my fault even though he was the one who was approving the change orders. like not even the slightest attempt at pushing back. our convoluted and extremely fragile build process accidentally pushes a feature to the customer's stage environment? this has to be an all-hands-on-deck call with our directors just so he can publicly berate me for it. thank god our tech director was competent and gently reminded my manager that i was the one who had been saying that this exact situation was a when, not if, scenario, and that we needed to be ready for when it inevitably happened. our customer relations director then asked if the customer was even aware that the feature was in their environment and if so, were they even upset about it. no on both, of course. he just wanted to make a show of putting me down thank god i left that place in the dust
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Oct 12, 2021 16:13
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i wouldn’t make too huge of a snap judgement about someone based on how they act as an interviewer, interviews do weird things to people on both sides of the table. sure he could turn out to be a self absorbed rear end in a top hat, and it could still turn out that it doesn’t really matter anyway if he doesn’t micromanage his teams
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Oct 12, 2021 17:08
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I've hit a weird point in my role and domain area. There is very little organizational hierarchy to our current design team and most of us are starting to mature and the team is starting to get top heavy. There is only one other associate director, everyone is mostly senior and then my boss who is at the Sr. director level. My manager is aware of this and wants to promote more AD's but from within the company. That leaves me and the other sr. designer on the consumer side. I'm at a restaurant SaaS company so mostly there is focus exclusively on B2B so I'm in a weird niche area of B2C. Me and the other designer have been partnering together this year and have been balancing each other's skill sets and I think our work quality has been exemplary as a result. My rub is w/ there being only one other A/D, he is overstretched and I don't really want to be in the same position as him, but also want to start being able to build a structure on the consumer design side of the org. I've been doing broader roadmapping for improving the much neglected account experience on our white label ecom site, which has been really fun work for me and helping to mentor our summer design intern. Even worse is upper management seems to have no clarity on how to handle B2C/ecommerce and our consumer facing products are suffering from outdated UI and dropped table stakes UX. This latest project I'm on has disrupted almost every roadmap, was a snap decision with no planning that was decided to move forward during their exec offsite. My PM got removed from the project for pushing back too much. So I'm really very done with this insanity and want the project to fail because it will continue to encourage this behavior. I sort of want to reach for the A/D role to get it over the summer promotional frame, work it for a year then turn in my resignation and take 3-6 months off work. The promotion would probably make my current designer partner report to me, which feels awk to me since we've been equals for as long as I've been employed. This time frame happens to be the last of my majority vestment, which as at this point is about 2 extra years of salary I could bank if I run out the clock. I've been with my current company for 2.5 years at this point. The benefits are really great too along with a generous RSU program. Should I just stay in my current level though and let the other senior designer go for the position? How would getting to more middle management position and then leaving look when/if I decide to get back to design? My story would be I tried the position, did like got burned out/didn't like it got burned and when getting back into the job market will prob apply for senior designer again. tldr I want to gently caress around and find out about being a middle manager in a mismanaged side of the business cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 17:25
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carry on then posted:what is a bonus?
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Oct 13, 2021 00:44
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jesus WEP posted:i wouldn’t make too huge of a snap judgement about someone based on how they act as an interviewer, interviews do weird things to people on both sides of the table. sure he could turn out to be a self absorbed rear end in a top hat, and it could still turn out that it doesn’t really matter anyway if he doesn’t micromanage his teams I get what you’re saying but the interview is kinda your only chance to get a feel for interacting with someone you might have to interact with daily for years. i know I’ve ignored warning signs in many interviews only to be unsurprised and miserable a month later. I’ve never once had a negative interview experience with someone and later found out it was a fluke. they always turned out to just be assholes
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Oct 13, 2021 00:48
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lol https://web.archive.org/web/20211014200658/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1773420/software-development-engineer
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Oct 15, 2021 07:09
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thread title: > are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?
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Oct 15, 2021 07:34
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should i bother giving 2 weeks notice if i only started a few weeks ago? seems like i'm going to be "burning bridges" either way
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Oct 18, 2021 20:17
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qsvui posted:should i bother giving 2 weeks notice if i only started a few weeks ago? seems like i'm going to be "burning bridges" either way no
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Oct 18, 2021 20:20
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Meh, if you just started you aren't doing productive work anyway probably. Do you like the people there? it's mostly a courtesy to them but if you're ready to leave so soon it probably sucks so who cares. If it's a super short stint just leave it off your resume entirely
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Oct 18, 2021 20:23
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:thread title: If you have experience shoving hyper scale amounts of data into my butt hmu on linked in
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Oct 18, 2021 21:08
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qsvui posted:should i bother giving 2 weeks notice if i only started a few weeks ago? seems like i'm going to be "burning bridges" either way what happened to make you leave so soon?
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Oct 18, 2021 21:09
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qsvui posted:should i bother giving 2 weeks notice if i only started a few weeks ago? seems like i'm going to be "burning bridges" either way depends on why. if you took the other job bc you had a great offer come in that was being slow (or currentjob refused to push back their deadline or w/e), then absolutely give the notice. "sorry but this came in from my previous round of looking and jesus look at those numbers" is perfectly respectable if they're mistreating you and you're leaving due to a grievance, then gently caress em and do whatever makes you most comfortable
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Oct 18, 2021 23:38
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finally got an offer for a new product gig, building a bunch of new stuff instead of fixing mountains of tech debt. been looking around with various levels of seriousness for years, i'm so glad poo poo has finally lined up.
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Oct 19, 2021 00:57
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drat just got shut down. called up company that makes primary pharmacy software in nz dude was like “we don’t do that. wait for a job to come up” I said “ok, between now and whenever that is, is there anything I can do on the side to increase my future chances of a job” “learn windows like the back of your hand” and I tried to imply I was decent with windows. he just assumed I only knew a couple tricks. was a dick the entire time. i’m sure i don’t know windows like a pro but i have been loving around with all aspects of it for the better part of two decades. maybe i’m fooling myself and I had applied to one of the big pharmacies which I had always had in mind as a backup option, but I didn’t even get a call or anything. what a piece of poo poo I am lol. maybe i’ll be stuck here forever. it’s gonna take all my energy to keep the self-death thoughts under control today. lol. hahaha have a good day everyone
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Oct 21, 2021 22:49
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don't feel bad, you normally don't get software jobs by calling a company up and asking for one unless you're in your grandpa's anecdote from 1949
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Oct 21, 2021 22:52
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echinopsis posted:drat just got shut down. called up company that makes primary pharmacy software in nz rejections super suck, sorry 
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Oct 21, 2021 22:53
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here you go: https://angel.co/company/alto/jobs try that, they're actually hiring people to design products for their pharmacy software. it's a pandemic so they might not care about remote, esp if you do it as a contractor instead of making them do international healthcare or w/e
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Oct 21, 2021 22:55
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Achmed Jones posted:don't feel bad, you normally don't get software jobs by calling a company up and asking for one unless you're in your grandpa's anecdote from 1949 drive to their office, don't leave until you get an interview!
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Oct 21, 2021 22:59
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Achmed Jones posted:here you go: https://angel.co/company/alto/jobs thanks dude i wasn’t expecting a job, but was expecting a friendlier response. dude didn’t even pass me on to HR, no idea who he was, but just took it upon himself to let me know that they don’t give guidance to people to help them get jobs. suppose i’m also used to the empathetic way people in my industry talk to each other, not the harsh cutting way tech people talk to one another when one thinks they’re more correct than the other
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Oct 21, 2021 22:59
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echinopsis posted:thanks dude yeah dude, this was some receptionist that was just like "wtf" and didn't know how to handle that sorta thing. don't feel bad at all to be honest i'm pretty gobsmacked that you thought this was a reasonable way to procure employment. i can't think of any job where you can call a receptionist up and ask how to get hired and expect that to work out unless it's maybe as a receptionist for the company. surely they have a careers site, you know? Achmed Jones fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 23:03
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i’ve never really been one to have a self esteem. i’ve never understood how someone can derive their own self esteem, only really been able to have it when someone else says “good picture” or whatever. that said last few weeks i’ve been trying to accept maybe i’m good at things and good at lots of things (and not just being a loving train wreck on the forums). but maybe that was misplaced. like, this is proof it only matters what others think about me. what I think is worthless
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Oct 21, 2021 23:06
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Achmed Jones posted:yeah dude, this was some receptionist that was just like "wtf" and didn't know how to handle that sorta thing. don't feel bad at all maybe. he was pretty loving confident. but thanks. maybe you’re right 😿 anyway back to work. got prescriptions to check.
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Oct 21, 2021 23:08
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Not every company is like that. A lot of places recognise that if a candidate has a lovely experience, then it reflects poorly on the company and hurts their chances of hiring good people in future. That doesn't help the fact that you had a bad go of it this time. I'm sorry about that, I've been there and it really sucks. Just try not to let that discourage you from looking elsewhere.
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Oct 21, 2021 23:09
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echinopsis posted:but maybe that was misplaced. like, this is proof it only matters what others think about me. what I think is worthless this is an astoundingly bad take. i'm still trying to figure out why you thought a receptionist would be able to help you instead of finding a recruiter or hiring manager or something. dont feel bad for the rejection, but do reconsider your strategy on landing the job. cold calling is not going to get you what you want
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Oct 21, 2021 23:10
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use linkedin echi. just spam recruiters on there
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Oct 21, 2021 23:14
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echinopsis posted:maybe. he was pretty loving confident. Some pro tips: - Large companies have large amounts of process. (Often bad process.) They won't go outside of them because someone cold called. Part of working at a big company is understanding how to get stuff done within, often in spite of, a large company's processes. Asking them to go outside of them when they dont know you means you dont have that quite important skill. - Dont take career advice from receptionists. - Even at my tiny company I have someone who knows that if they were to put you through to anyone, they're gonna get a talking to. Cold callers are time wasters.
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Achmed Jones posted:i'm still trying to figure out why you thought a receptionist would be able to help you instead of finding a recruiter or hiring manager or something. well this is what I asked. I asked to speak to a person about the topic of future employment. but he just said “we don’t do that”. but I hear what you’re saying. appreciate the support. Vinz Clortho posted:Not every company is like that. A lot of places recognise that if a candidate has a lovely experience, then it reflects poorly on the company and hurts their chances of hiring good people in future. thanks man raminasi posted:rejections super suck, sorry thanks for the support
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