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thinkin bout interviewing
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Aug 1, 2018 17:56
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I just had a technical phone screening that I was worried about but it went really well and I'm feeling really great. It wasn't a hard coding question but its always nerve wracking doing it on the spot like that. That being said, codepad is pretty neat for things like this. It supports a bunch of languages and even had autocomplete suggestions for python (and a repl). Much better than using a whiteboard.
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Aug 1, 2018 18:03
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Ploft-shell crab posted:thinkin bout interviewing
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Aug 1, 2018 19:26
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I haven't gotten any calls back from jobs I've applied to yet so I went to a casting call for techie-looking people for a TV show if I can't be a programmer at least I might play one one TV now
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Aug 1, 2018 19:30
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at the FLIR hackathon, milling around outside the building before anyone was allowed in, the first words spoken to me were "are you a programmer" so yeah you've got a good shot
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Aug 1, 2018 19:54
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uncurable mlady posted:i did indeed take it. 30% raise. Nice. Time to buy a new car son.
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Aug 2, 2018 01:27
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interviewed and soft offer pending potential bosses boss approval an hour later... ~30-40% more figgies... fingers crossed
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Aug 2, 2018 01:39
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qhat posted:Nice. Time to buy a new car son. yeah prolly, maybe a new Subaru
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Aug 2, 2018 03:14
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im realizing i miss doing technical work and i dont know if theres a clear path to doing more technical work in my current position lol rip
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Aug 2, 2018 15:23
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kind of hosed up that i always conclude that changing jobs will be easier than just having a conversation with my manager about the kind of work i want to be doing lmao
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Aug 2, 2018 15:52
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my managers never give me different work if I ask for it so maybe it's for the best
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Aug 2, 2018 16:25
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i could probably pivot to being a systems engineer but that feels like an extremely pigeonholing move to literally just aerospace and defense
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Aug 2, 2018 16:28
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Also telecom
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Aug 2, 2018 16:30
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Bloody posted:i could probably pivot to being a systems engineer but that feels like an extremely pigeonholing move to literally just aerospace and defense Janitor Prime posted:Also telecom think how many systems engineers places like fitbit, jawbone, sonos, etc. have
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Aug 2, 2018 18:48
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So I'm going to be managing multiple programmers in the coming month, up from managing 0 programmers. Is it reasonable to ask for a significant raise?
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Aug 2, 2018 19:55
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yeah
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Aug 2, 2018 20:00
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JawnV6 posted:yeah, the other systems folks i know write wifi mesh router FW, web-scale CDN stuff to be clear when i say systems engineer i mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering aka requirements, verification, FMEA, MIL-STD-###, DO-### style poo poo
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Aug 2, 2018 20:35
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Bloody posted:to be clear when i say systems engineer i mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering uhhhh how do you think CE products supported by huge backend systems come into being without requirements, verification, FMEA.... like im sorry i insulted you with the low-grade trash im involved with, but this is absolutely a role that every CE company has if you can't stand those two industries
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Aug 2, 2018 20:49
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cool i just assumed everybody was like the last clusterfuck i was at and was just winging it for everything
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Aug 2, 2018 20:51
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(where "systems engineer" was shorthand for "embedded systems engineer")
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Aug 2, 2018 20:53
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Bloody posted:cool i just assumed everybody was like the last clusterfuck i was at and was just winging it for everything they are but some people also create paperwork 
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Aug 2, 2018 21:14
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i interviewed for a systems engineer at fitbit, it was the FW folks and EE folks basically asking "are you gonna gently caress me over with lovely HW" and a lot of poking at block diagrams. the worst was power analysis, the bad cop was on a video link from san diego and gave zero feedback until the very end when he joked "lol you've obviously done power analysis before, but your #'s for BLTE chips are X years out of date and that's easy to learn" honestly the further i stay from PLM systems the happier I am, so
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Aug 2, 2018 21:18
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my favorite part of power analysis is when you send it back to the EE group with "so your sleep current is off by 3 orders of magnitude"
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Aug 2, 2018 21:19
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my favorite part of power analysis is when the EEs come back with numbers that obviously violate the requirements and just say "well lets just change the requirements or waive them"
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Aug 2, 2018 21:31
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Bloody posted:my favorite part of power analysis is when the EEs come back with numbers that obviously violate the requirements and just say "well lets just change the requirements or waive them" Software folks do the same poo poo
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Aug 2, 2018 21:51
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Janitor Prime posted:Software folks do the same poo poo indeed, but you can't push a board spin over the air
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Aug 2, 2018 22:06
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qhat posted:So I'm going to be managing multiple programmers in the coming month, up from managing 0 programmers. Is it reasonable to ask for a significant raise? uh yeah just imagine having to deal with multiple bad devs and all the drama and bs that comes w/ it
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Aug 2, 2018 22:50
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I just asked and they were like ya obv but I don't know what it will be yet
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Aug 2, 2018 23:16
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looking for jobs sucks
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Aug 3, 2018 00:18
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meatpotato posted:looking for jobs sucks
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Aug 3, 2018 01:55
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sent in a resume to a place that seemed really cool back in like, late may or something, and figured i was a great fit, but i never heard back. suddenly they popped up yesterday though and were like "sorry, summer holidays and all that, are you still interested" and yea i guess i am! thought that boat had sailed ages ago.
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Aug 3, 2018 05:24
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TheFluff posted:sent in a resume to a place that seemed really cool back in like, late may or something, and figured i was a great fit, but i never heard back. suddenly they popped up yesterday though and were like "sorry, summer holidays and all that, are you still interested" and yea i guess i am! thought that boat had sailed ages ago. this seems like a good sign that people there actually take PTO
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Aug 3, 2018 06:57
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skype interview with microsoft trip report: interviewer was nice but clearly could be a poster in the working in corporate thread. He posed simple algorithm problems like compare ints and smalltalked about programming concepts. Also asked if I actually lived in or wanted to relocate to the area the position was in, as they'd had some russian applicants who didn't want to move 
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Aug 3, 2018 07:38
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Boiled Water posted:skype interview with microsoft trip report: interviewer was nice but clearly could be a poster in the working in corporate thread. He posed simple algorithm problems like compare ints and smalltalked about programming concepts. Sounds like you did okay. Those questions are designed to catch out the peasants which make up 90% of applicants.
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Aug 3, 2018 08:11
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Raluek posted:this seems like a good sign that people there actually take PTO
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Aug 3, 2018 12:18
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is it a thing that recruiters want a resume as a word doc? seems like a red flag
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Aug 3, 2018 23:38
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it's a thing, but not a good thing -- they probably want to change it by adding "keywords"
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Aug 3, 2018 23:48
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Pie Colony posted:it's a thing, but not a good thing -- they probably want to change it by adding "keywords" Or, remove your contact details from the resume so the company can't screw the recruiter out of the commission. Either way, do not use third party recruiters who want a word doc. In fact, make that do not use third party recruiters.
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i had some unusually competent recruiters last year that told me everything i could want to hear but kept signing me up for dumb devops jobs at startups where i had to do ten jobs at once and the interviewers wouldn't even reveal which ten jobs would be mine
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