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Computers were a fuckload better ten years ago, their win.
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computers are massively better now than they were 10 years ago. software is worse
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managed to get another on-site at apple. gonna do a bunch of adderall and studying the next week or two.
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Feb 12, 2022 03:10
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my homie dhall posted:like it or not, crypto poo poo has enough mainstream coverage and money behind it that you can't expect every average, and even decent normie to be able to be discerning enough to identify it as a ponzi scheme. man if I'm hiring an architect to make decisions for the whole loving company I sure hope they can spot most blockchains-as-cryptocurrency ponzi schemes. Like if they have some NFT avatar and it's not something they hacked from a hosed up lovely smart contract I'm instantly having doubt about their judgment.
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Feb 12, 2022 03:47
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for the record we’re not talking about people whose jobs are blockchain, as far as I’m concerned you’re doing a job that you may or may not want to do, we’ve all got blemishes on our records. but if you come in and try to tell me about how blockchain is going to change the world or anything remotely of that sort, you’re done, the most you’ll get out of us at that point is a polite chat until the time is up.
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Feb 12, 2022 04:07
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i was at a big org in a role that an enterprise architect should work closely with. they hired one and i met with him once as an intro and then never saw this guy again then like six months later I heard he got shitcanned, turns out he was blockchain enthusiast, true story
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Feb 12, 2022 04:13
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PIZZA.BAT posted:yeah i specifically asked what emerging technologies he was keeping an eye on that he could see the industry moving torwards. this was for an interview for a software architect. the questions we asked before that one and after were regarding being a software architect in a healthcare company. i wasn't just shooting the poo poo Did you ask them what technologies they were excited about or what technologies they could see industry moving towards? Those are different questions.
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Feb 12, 2022 04:13
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pretty sure i asked what he was excited about and phrased it as having impact on the industry but it was also like five months ago so who knows i really didn't think that anecdote would kick off this much discussion
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Feb 12, 2022 04:21
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PokeJoe posted:im interested in staying away from blockchain but would also like to hear about how dumb companies are shoehorning it into stuff for no reason they mostly aren't actually shoehorning it in. they're just telling investors that they are and then building something which doesn't involve a blockchain
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Feb 12, 2022 04:23
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I know people who were working at a hardware startup for IoT poo poo and to survive they had to take investor money and the investors had them put in a cryptocurrency. It's working apparently.
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Feb 12, 2022 04:35
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PIZZA.BAT posted:pretty sure i asked what he was excited about and phrased it as having impact on the industry but it was also like five months ago so who knows anything to do with crypto is political. it shouldn’t be, it’s pretty clear cut it’s a useless tech for scammers and abject morons, but people do genuinely view an attachment to crypto in the same vein as political party attachment, and that being a crypto bro should be protected like who you vote for. this is as opposed to viewing the candidate as having an awful, awful outlook on technology.
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Feb 12, 2022 04:38
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political affiliation isn’t a protected class in the us or canada lol
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Feb 12, 2022 04:50
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MononcQc posted:I know people who were working at a hardware startup for IoT poo poo and to survive they had to take investor money and the investors had them put in a cryptocurrency. It's working apparently. is it helium the cryptocurrency I mean
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PCjr sidecar posted:political affiliation isn’t a protected class in the us or canada lol well there you go
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Feb 12, 2022 04:54
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hobbesmaster posted:is it helium eh I won’t give more details at this point but will just point out there’s way more drat IoT cryptocurrencies than would ever make sense https://coinmarketcap.com/view/iot/
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posting for career path advice rather than interviewing advice, but this feels like the best thread for it I'm a senior engineer at a startup. my boss, the director of engineering, just put in their notice. my boss' boss is asking if I'm interested in stepping into a leadership position the way it has been described to me is that management responsibilities would be added slowly so that I could get practice at it and figure out if I like it. it would start out with team lead responsibilities and expand from there, with an actual promotion and figgie bump down the line I have a number of questions and concerns: - I'm not sure if I want to be in management at all. I like being an IC, and I think my ideal career path would be IC work on more and more interesting projects for more and more money. I don't know how reasonable that is short of having a phd - what if I'm not any good at it? I'm pretty good at my current job and generally like it, as much as I could like having to do anything 40 hours a week for money - relatedly, I've been a developer for a relatively short amount of time, having transitioned from real engineering to fake engineering. I've learned a lot, especially being the first software engineer my current company hired after my current boss. there are still huge areas of software development I know nothing about. I'm a bit concerned that even if this move is what I want, doing it too early could be detrimental - my outgoing boss thinks I should go for it. he says that this is the kind of opportunity he wishes he had at my age. pretty sure his end goal has always been startup CTO fwiw - I'm hesitant to take on additional responsibilities now for the promise of future figgies. if I go for this I will be negotiating for an immediate pay bump. the title is more or less meaningless to me any suggestions for questions I should be asking or things I should be negotiating for? I would also be interested in hearing about peoples experiences with moving into management, and if they had any regrets or things they wish they had done differently at this point I'm leaning towards going for it. worst case scenario if I hate it I could always hit da bricks and try to get an IC role at a tech major - which I'm pretty sure would be the threads advice to me if I had posted about my situation prior to this
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IC career path is absolutely possible, you can keep getting promoted and getting more money without ever going into "management" beyond just tech leadership. but to do this you need to be at a larger company with a defined track of senior engineer, staff engineer, principal engineer... and your startup almost certainly doesn't have this. similarly, they are saying they want you to be management, how many people would you actually manage? how would your responsibilities really change? also how old are you and how many years of experience do you have? if you are under 30 and your title is "director of engineering", nobody outside your company is going to believe you are actually a director of engineering. you are absolutely right about the figgies though, figgies come now not later. you could also ask for substantially more equity (but not in lieu of figgies)
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Feb 18, 2022 19:41
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DELETE CASCADE posted:IC career path is absolutely possible, you can keep getting promoted and getting more money without ever going into "management" beyond just tech leadership. but to do this you need to be at a larger company with a defined track of senior engineer, staff engineer, principal engineer... and your startup almost certainly doesn't have this. similarly, they are saying they want you to be management, how many people would you actually manage? how would your responsibilities really change? also how old are you and how many years of experience do you have? if you are under 30 and your title is "director of engineering", nobody outside your company is going to believe you are actually a director of engineering. you are absolutely right about the figgies though, figgies come now not later. you could also ask for substantially more equity (but not in lieu of figgies) you're right that that kind of structure does not exist at my company. I'm over 30, but not by a lot. a director title is not in the short term cards, for now it would just be a team lead. I think it would start with 3 people or so
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team lead of a small team ain't such a bad gig, that's basically what i do and i still have time between meetings to write some computer programs (ok, sql queries). i assume you already know the people you'd be managing, so i think the main risks there would be if they don't respect your experience enough to be team lead (and they're bitter it isn't them), or if they require micromanagement. my team is pretty independent and i act mainly as a tech resource for them, and also an interface to/from the exec team
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yup that’s been my experience well. i’m mostly there to solve ‘people problems’ for them like if a team were depending on isn’t responsive or if stakeholders are getting snippy. i’ve only had one guy who needed to be micromanaged but i was able to get him on track just by building trust in him that it was ok for him to ask questions and be more proactive with stuff. now he’s doing great. i say go for it. make sure you get some upfront figgies along with additional figgies in writing for a year from now should you continue to adopt the role. my personal experience is that this has been great because i don’t code for work anymore and for the first time since college i’ve actually enjoyed working on personal projects again
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DELETE CASCADE posted:team lead of a small team ain't such a bad gig, that's basically what i do and i still have time between meetings to write some computer programs (ok, sql queries). i assume you already know the people you'd be managing, so i think the main risks there would be if they don't respect your experience enough to be team lead (and they're bitter it isn't them), or if they require micromanagement. my team is pretty independent and i act mainly as a tech resource for them, and also an interface to/from the exec team the current team is really solid. we will definitely be hiring more people this year, which I'm more concerned about than our current team. I have limited interviewing experience and I don't think I'm very good at it. it's not like I have nobody to lean on here, I'm just more worried about new team members than the current team
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Feb 18, 2022 22:28
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glad i waited it out from that previous offer. got a new one at a different place for a 69% TC bump. nice
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Flaming June posted:glad i waited it out from that previous offer. got a new one at a different place for a 69% TC bump. nice nice
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I took a bit of a depression break from the job hunt but some stuff finally came through. I have three companies lookin at me right now with some technical interviews on the horizon and some decent figgies in my future. one of the jobs up front talked compensation and my eyes bugged out at the sick deal I’d get if I do well. nice to have a recruiter be open about expected salaries and stuff before we even start the whole process
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Sent out 3 applications, have a tech screen with the company that will singlehandedly end western civilization as we know it (Meta) next week, I'm hoping for once in my life I can have competing offers from some big names and really scalp big tech with no mercy whatsoever.
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what’s been the turnaround between application and response for y’all lately? I sent out a handful a week and a half ago to positions I thought, with a lot of hubris, would be all over my nutsack, but haven’t heard a peep
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I took a bit of a depression break from the job hunt but some stuff finally came through. I have three companies lookin at me right now with some technical interviews on the horizon and some decent figgies in my future. one of the jobs up front talked compensation and my eyes bugged out at the sick deal I’d get if I do well. nice to have a recruiter be open about expected salaries and stuff before we even start the whole process If you get to real interviews, ask what kind of rewards you can expect if you're putting in 40 hours a week / not setting the world on fire.
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Flaming June posted:glad i waited it out from that previous offer. got a new one at a different place for a 69% TC bump. nice nice
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i've been looking at jobs lately and i am unsettled by the number of data engineer positions i've seen that also include "presenting data" this used to be the perfect pure-backend/quantitative job and these loving corpos better not ruin it by making us have qualitative responsibilities again
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Corla Plankun posted:i've been looking at jobs lately and i am unsettled by the number of data engineer positions i've seen that also include "presenting data" you know how frontend and backend development got squished into one position to save money? it's bound to happen to data engineer/scientists and other BI folk
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I wonder what % of new engineer responsibilities used to be done by a biz major or a well trained secretary
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CarForumPoster posted:I wonder what % of new engineer responsibilities used to be done by a biz major or a well trained secretary lol my first 2 years at a civil firm were 90% printing and copy-editing
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Not a Children posted:lol my first 2 years at a civil firm were 90% printing and copy-editing billable hours?
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CarForumPoster posted:billable hours? Oh yes. I was a credulous fool fresh out of college but I know how it all works now.
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is anyone here familiar with the biotech companies in the oyster point area of south SF? I interviewed for a job with one, it's remote, but I was just curious. It's for a biostat position at CareDx, and that's where they are headquartered. they did ask if also moving to SF was an option, to which I said no because of housing prices lol
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actionjackson posted:is anyone here familiar with the biotech companies in the oyster point area of south SF? I interviewed for a job with one, it's remote, but I was just curious. It's for a biostat position at CareDx, and that's where they are headquartered. they did ask if also moving to SF was an option, to which I said no because of housing prices lol
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qirex posted:I know plenty of folks who have been into and out of those, what I gather is that your experience will depend largely on your immediate team since software is an also-ran at places like that there's no "people who can munge a string are wizards" vibe. I've also heard some of the "real" scientists can be snotty to computer touchers i'm not sure if I count as a computer toucher, biostatistician is kind of a weird job, there's the programmatic part of course, but also the consulting/explaining to non-statisticians part as well the only "languages" i know are SAS (which is a piece of poo poo) and R. from what I gather this is a small group of about 10 biostatisticians. I have a lot of experience working with solid organ transplant data so that's why I was contacted - they make products to try to detect early evidence of graft injury or rejection.
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actionjackson posted:i'm not sure if I count as a computer toucher, biostatistician is kind of a weird job, there's the programmatic part of course, but also the consulting/explaining to non-statisticians part as well
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qirex posted:no clue about your specific field, most of the people I know who have worked at those places were either in software or admin right, it's a relatively small field, that's why I don't really have a great place to ask about it
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CareDx bought a software company a few years ago called Ottr, I think. I've talked with that team that got acquired in 2019 and they seemed to love their job. That's about all I can say about it.
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