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FMguru posted:just think of the prosperity everyone will be enjoying when you finally brexit all those job-stealing poles out of your country next year! I'm literally in Canada every day laughing my rear end off at my home country tearing itself apart because some cheeky chappy in the local pub told them it was a good idea.
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Had a phone interview today. It went okay? I think the company is neat so hopefully they bring me in for an interview. I guess worst case scenario it's good practice for the next one.
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Sapozhnik posted:oh god yeah london is loving dire I got an offer for £70k (which is about what a senior dev can expect) in London a few years back, and seriously considered it until I looked up how much a deece apartment would cost in the city. Yeah no.
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So this phone interview has turned into a real one. What's the best way to learn algorithms in a week?
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Invent a time machine and take a class on it. Or power through a book on them.
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Sapozhnik posted:oh god yeah london is loving dire I have worked in many places in the UK that are not London tbh
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Got an offer...for like 2/3s of what I get now in every aspect of compensation.
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Aug 17, 2018 17:53
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The lovely bus company is looking for a server-toucher. Maybe I should apply.  
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Diva Cupcake posted:privileged white dude with a wife and a 9 month old. i'm pretty much the city's target demo minus the jets fandom. a friend of mine developed a pretty severe depression as a stay at home mom because all the other women in her neighborhood were russian gangster wives who wore gold lamé gym clothes all the time and they didnt like to hang out with the nerdy asian lady Bloody posted:the mta was the greatest then it went wholly unmaintained for decades and now it doesnt work the new 2nd ave subway is still pretty nice since it is brand new and not neglected enough yet.
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PokeJoe posted:Invent a time machine and take a class on it. Or power through a book on them. I figured this would be the case. I have an EE degree so my classes were more focused on janitoring individual bits. Gonna be a busy week!
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PokeJoe posted:Invent a time machine and take a class on it. Or power through a book on them. taking a class on algorithms probably won't actually help you with toy interview problems cracking the coding interview probably will though
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C.H.O.M.E. posted:a friend of mine developed a pretty severe depression as a stay at home mom because all the other women in her neighborhood were russian gangster wives who wore gold lamé gym clothes all the time and they didnt like to hang out with the nerdy asian lady i told the boston offer to extend my deadline past this weekend so the wife and I can ride up and hang out in lesser neighborhoods than our own to see how we like them. they didn't blink and told me to take my time so that's a decent sign.
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Diva Cupcake posted:sounds about right. mine has had a pretty severe depression because her poo poo fashion career could barely cover the costs of new york daycare, hence the sahm. add cliquishness of the mommy crowd and I get it. it sucks. 
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C.H.O.M.E. posted:a friend of mine developed a pretty severe depression as a stay at home mom because all the other women in her neighborhood were russian gangster wives who wore gold lamé gym clothes all the time and they didnt like to hang out with the nerdy asian lady yeah but it's still connected to the rest of the subway system grody, broken-down stations suck but the real problem is the service raminasi fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Asleep Style posted:I figured this would be the case. I have an EE degree so my classes were more focused on janitoring individual bits. Gonna be a busy week! i know how you feel, my undergrad was EE too interview questions are almost always binary trees, but sometimes some super cs degree haver will make you write down a*. you can get pretty far by just thinking about how an embedded dev would do it <problem> in as little memory as possible. just don't let cs jargon spook you, and if the cs jargoners won't explain their jargon when you ask, interpret it as a bad smell and don't judge yourself for 'failing' to read some dumbass bs cs's mind edit: oh and i bookmarked this a while back but i haven't used it, it might help as a refresher Corla Plankun fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Bloody posted:the mta was the greatest then it went wholly unmaintained for decades and now it doesnt work tbf this happened to every transit system in america not just the mta
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Corla Plankun posted:i know how you feel, my undergrad was EE too I ran into binary search a lot too
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Corla Plankun posted:i know how you feel, my undergrad was EE too Thanks for the pep talk, framing it in terms of embedded stuff seems like it will be helpful. I appreciate the link, I'll check that out. Arcsech posted:I ran into binary search a lot too This would be cool for me because binary search is essentially how I understand run times of log(n) in general.
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Diva Cupcake posted:sounds about right. mine has had a pretty severe depression because her poo poo fashion career could barely cover the costs of new york daycare, hence the sahm. add cliquishness of the mommy crowd and I get it. it sucks.
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Asleep Style posted:So this phone interview has turned into a real one. What's the best way to learn algorithms in a week? hacker rank is pretty good interview prep, you can even pick problems that focus on specific things (string manipulation, graph search, greedy algorithms, etc) and they're classified as easy/medium/hard I've noticed more companies are doing coder pad during interviews. Its great because writing on the whiteboard sucks... but its rough because now they actually want to see the code work, which means after you've gotten the gist of the algorithm down you have to debug it. Interviewing sucks.... On the plus side I had an in-person today with a GIS/Big Data company that I think went pretty well, might get an offer as early as next week 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:tbf this happened to every transit system in america not just the mta ya for sure. mbta is only not horrible yet because more time needs to pass
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Bloody posted:the mta was the greatest then it went wholly unmaintained for decades and now it doesnt work love too use the MTA lockbox to build poo poo in sparsely populated upstate areas and then they vote to not help us fix poo poo
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Bloody posted:ya for sure. mbta is only not horrible yet because more time needs to pass just give em some more unfunded mandatory projects
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Diva Cupcake posted:sounds about right. mine has had a pretty severe depression because her poo poo fashion career could barely cover the costs of new york daycare, hence the sahm. add cliquishness of the mommy crowd and I get it. it sucks it's not gonna be any easier in boston
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Turned down the offer. They didn't want to budge on pay and also the employment contract included things like waiving my right to sue and only settling disputes through arbitration. I haven't seen that in an employment contract before and it set off some internal alarm bells. I've seen non-competes and "we own your intellectual property unless you put every idea you've ever had before working here in this box" clauses, but is waiving your right to sue a common thing?
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ThePeavstenator posted:I'm only planning on taking this job if they give me an obnoxious raise. ThePeavstenator posted:Got an offer...for like 2/3s of what I get now in every aspect of compensation. ThePeavstenator posted:Turned down the offer. They didn't want to budge on pay and also the employment contract included things like waiving my right to sue and only settling disputes through arbitration. I haven't seen that in an employment contract before and it set off some internal alarm bells. I've seen non-competes and "we own your intellectual property unless you put every idea you've ever had before working here in this box" clauses, but is waiving your right to sue normal?
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JawnV6 posted:what was the impetus for even reading that far? sounds like you knew it wasn't a fit before those flags Job seemed good and similar to what I'm doing now, I like my current one but seemed worth it to not get rusty at interviewing and also to see how much money they'd drop.  I was 99% not going to accept it after the initial offer but seemed worth at least seeing how they'd respond to a counter offer.
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ThePeavstenator posted:Turned down the offer. They didn't want to budge on pay and also the employment contract included things like waiving my right to sue and only settling disputes through arbitration. I haven't seen that in an employment contract before and it set off some internal alarm bells. I've seen non-competes and "we own your intellectual property unless you put every idea you've ever had before working here in this box" clauses, but is waiving your right to sue a common thing? Sounds like epic, lol. I expect lots more Wisconsin companies to start adding clauses like that now that Jacob lost his lawsuit forever.
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ThePeavstenator posted:Turned down the offer. They didn't want to budge on pay and also the employment contract included things like waiving my right to sue and only settling disputes through arbitration. I haven't seen that in an employment contract before and it set off some internal alarm bells. I've seen non-competes and "we own your intellectual property unless you put every idea you've ever had before working here in this box" clauses, but is waiving your right to sue a common thing? It is now thanks to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-upholds-workplace-arbitration-contracts.html companies waited all of a day before shoving that poo poo directly into the boilerplate
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Bhodi posted:It is now thanks to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-upholds-workplace-arbitration-contracts.html True story, I trained the plaintiff in this suit. He started as my tech comm mentee and like me he became a dev and left epic forever. My other trainee is a dev now too. I'm an unending scourge upon epic.
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q to those of you who sought out a new job recently: how long / how many applications before you got a call back?
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meatpotato posted:q to those of you who sought out a new job recently: how long / how many applications before you got a call back? 6 months and I lost track of how many apps I sent out.
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i heard back in 2-3 business days for some, within 2 weeks for most, and never for many
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's not gonna be any easier in boston looking in cambridge, somerville, east boston, and charlestown right now. meatpotato posted:q to those of you who sought out a new job recently: how long / how many applications before you got a call back? 21 applications or referrals (2 in-house recruiters) 9 no responses 6 outright rejection form letters 6 phone screens 3 multi-stage interview processes (technical, webex, on-site, etc) 1 offer
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Diva Cupcake posted:probably not. i signed the boston offer letter though. still need to find a neighborhood that doesn't suck and i'm not dropping notice until the background check comes back, which it should soon. where is the office
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i've sent out 23 applications since early july out of those 23, two had referrals no responses at all (yet) also, i've received only one non-bullshit linkedin recruiter solicitation, but I declined because the position was in boston lol
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from my latest round: 30-35ish applications 4 got to any interview at all, the others got form letter rejections or nothing 3 of those got to a serious technical interview (onsite or onsite-equivalent for remote). the other one was the first time i did a hackerrank-style tech challenge interviewing and I bombed the gently caress out of it of those 3: one ghosted me one rejected me one offer all over the course of about 6 months Arcsech fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Aug 22, 2018 |
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Bloody posted:where is the office
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